Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, generative AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the best-known AI chatbot around, but with Google pushing Gemini, Microsoft building Copilot, and Apple adding its Intelligence to Siri, AI is probably going to be in the spotlight for a very long time. At The Verge, we’re exploring what might be possible with AI — and a lot of the bad stuff AI does, too.
All I can say is in the brief time I used the Cluely app, it helped me cheat on exactly nothing. So I am not surprised to see this TechCrunch report alleging that CEO Roy Lee lied about the company’s revenue numbers.
Focus Features’ new documentary about gen AI suffers from having too much access and not enough thought.
The AI chatbots, which are supposed to help students with questions about financial aid and admissions, often answer “general questions correctly but struggled with more specific ones,” CalMatters reports. “East Los Angeles College’s bot couldn’t even correctly name its own president.”
The designation from the US Department of War — that’s busy disrupting actual supply chains and human life in several countries — is having the inverse effect of driving up demand for Claude, which has been breaking daily signup records since early last week in every country where Claude is available.
AppFigures data also shows it topping App Store charts for free and AI apps in dozens of countries, including the US, Canada, and much of Europe.
In a blog post, CEO Dario Amodei confirmed reports that the Defense Department had sent them a letter formally designating them a supply-chain risk, and said Anthropic planned to challenge them in court. He also clarified how it would currently impact Claude users:
The language used by the Department of War in the letter (even supposing it was legally sound) matches our statement on Friday that the vast majority of our customers are unaffected by a supply chain risk designation. With respect to our customers, it plainly applies only to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of contracts with the Department of War, not all use of Claude by customers who have such contracts.
It’s a $100 million project meant to limit methane and other pollutants that are even more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. But any company serious about climate change still needs to address their carbon emissions, the most abundant planet-heating pollutant. Both companies’ carbon footprints have grown as they expand data centers for AI.
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The move is an effort to appease antitrust regulators from the European Commission, Reuters reports. Previously, competitors’ chatbots were being blocked on WhatsApp, but now Meta says that “for a fee” it will “support general purpose AI chatbots using the WhatsApp Business API in Europe” for the next 12 months.
In a scathing 1,600 word memo to employees sent on Friday, CEO Dario Amodei suggested Anthropic’s relationship with the government soured because, unlike OpenAI or its executives, “we haven’t donated to Trump” and “we haven’t given dictator-style praise to Trump.”
The leaked remarks could complicate Amodei’s last-ditch efforts to salvage the company’s relationship with the US military and prevent it from being iced out of defense work.
Companies that do business with the US military are pivoting away from Anthropic’s AI after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he was designating it a “supply chain risk” last week, CNBC reports. While Anthropic can still challenge the designation in court, defense companies say they’re abandoning Claude preemptively “out of an abundance of caution.”
A non-profit called Open Knowledge Association has been using AI to translate Wikipedia articles, leading to “hallucinations” that included incorrect, fabricated, replaced, and unrelated sources, 404 Media reports. Wikipedia editors are now placing restrictions on OKA translators, including blocking them if too many of their contributions are found with errors.
The Pro-Human Declaration has been signed by the American Federation of Teachers, the Congress of Christian Leaders, the Progressive Democrats of America, and Steve Bannon.
Prompted by recent GitHub outages, OpenAI is in the early stages of developing its own code repository, with completion still months away. The company is considering making it available to OpenAI customers, putting the ChatGPT creator in direct competition with Microsoft, a company holding a significant stake in OpenAI.
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Our trust in online images and videos is being eroded by AI, misinformation, and video game clips.
The new GPT-5.3-Instant model rolling out today is supposed to be more accurate, understand the context of questions, and “reduces unnecessary dead ends, caveats, and overly declarative phrasing that can interrupt the flow of
conversation.”
Does that mean the return of 4o’s glaze? Maybe not, but a blog post says 5.2-Instant’s tendency toward “coming across as overbearing or making unwarranted assumptions about user intent or emotions” has been addressed.
The protest’s planned focus is AI-powered mass domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons. It’s organized by QuitGPT, a grassroots campaign that says it’s inspired more than 1.5 million people have to take relevant action (by either sharing on social media or signing up for the boycott itself).
“I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”
It’s being rolled out to testers in the US to rival similar offerings found in ChatGPT and Gemini, according to Bloomberg.
The OpenAI CEO laid out some updated wording he hoped would address people’s concerns about mass domestic surveillance, though the new language still included the phrase “consistent with applicable laws.” Altman also said he reiterated over the weekend that Anthropic should not be designated a supply chain risk.
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Any Xbox Insider PC can opt into Microsoft’s new “postgame recaps,” but the Xbox Ally X handheld’s integrated NPU takes it further with Copilot-generated “highlight reels.”
To start, it’ll only work with Among Us, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Forza Horizon 5, Lies of P, Overwatch, and Palworld. Let me know if it’s better than a normal recap?
The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.
