When testing out its latest artificial intelligence model, researchers at Anthropic discovered something very odd: that the AI was ready and willing to take extreme action, right up to coersion, when threatened with being shut down. As Anthropic detailed in a white paper about the testing for one of its latest models, Claude Opus 4, the… Continue reading Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You’re Having an Affair
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Nvidia Is Facing Nasty Allegations
The world’s largest manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) is facing allegations of review manipulation — and the claims being made are pretty egregious. According to the GamersNexus blog and others within the PC gaming review industry, Nvidia has allegedly been trading access to its new GeForce RTX 5060 GPU for friendly reviews. Those who haven’t… Continue reading Nvidia Is Facing Nasty Allegations
Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated
Elon Musk is having a mini-meltdown on his website after The Atlantic published a damning dive into his time at the White House, leading with a mortifying description of how he was humiliated by one of his superiors. Responding Wednesday to a tweet dissing the magazine, Musk wrote, under his newly re-adopted display name “Kekius Maximus”… Continue reading Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated
Man Alarmed to Find Ten Thousand Ton Cargo Ship Crashed Into the Garden Next to His House
Johan Helberg is a retired museum director living out his days on the idyllic shores of Trondheim Fjord in Central Norway. That relaxation was interrupted early Thursday morning, when he awoke to discover the bow of a 9,990-ton cargo ship had rammed through his backyard garden. The vessel, registered as the NCL Salten out of… Continue reading Man Alarmed to Find Ten Thousand Ton Cargo Ship Crashed Into the Garden Next to His House
China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space
They’re all the rage right now. Space Computer China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first batch of the satellites it’s comprised of was just sent up. As the South China Morning Post reports, the so-called “Three-Body Computing Constellation” project launched the first 12 of its planned 2,800 satellites last week from the… Continue reading China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space
Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia
A striking graph, which went viral on Reddit last week, shows the purported percentage of internet users visiting OpenAI’s blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT overtaking Wikipedia over the past two years. The data, compiled by UK-based market research company GWI, shows a steady decline in the proportion of users visiting Wikipedia worldwide, excluding China. In less… Continue reading Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia
Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
Google’s got a brand new AI video generator, and it’s so sophisticated that we’re starting to sweat around the collar a bit. Google DeepMind describes the new model, Veo 3, as capable of delivering “best in class quality, excelling in physics, realism and prompt adherence” — and as videos posted to social media indicate, that… Continue reading Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It
Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style
Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel. The novel, titled “Darkhollow Academy : Year 2,” penned by author Lena McDonald, falls under a romance subgenre called “reverse harem,” which conventionally follows a female protagonist with multiple male partners. But as eagle-eyed fans… Continue reading Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style
The Trump Administration’s Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz has already been ousted for using a bottom-shelf Signal clone for official messaging — but the fallout from that debacle is still getting worse and worse. As Reuters reports, a hacker who accessed information from TeleMessage, an Israeli messaging app that was sold to the government to archive… Continue reading The Trump Administration’s Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad
Anti-Baby Zealot Blows Up IVF Clinic, Accidentally Becoming the Attack’s Only Casualty
The second decade of the 21st century has given us a treasure trove of bonkers ideologies and obsessive subcultures. From Marc Andreessen’s fanatic Techno-Optimists to the violent rationalist sect of the Zizians, would-be cultists are spoiled for choice in 2025. Now, it seems there’s a new one on the scene: the self-described “pro-mortalists.” The philosopher Thaddeus Metz, at… Continue reading Anti-Baby Zealot Blows Up IVF Clinic, Accidentally Becoming the Attack’s Only Casualty