Nathan Calvin, from advocacy group Encode, received an interview request from Michael Chen, a reporter at The Wire by Acutus. But it turns out Chen probably doesn’t exist, and most of the “reporters” at the suspiciously pro-AI Acutus appear to be bots. It’s just the tip of a financial trail that appears to lead to OpenAI.
Suno is available on Android Auto, and CarPlay support is in the works. Now you can stream all your illicit AI covers on your road trip from Hell. According to a post in the Suno Discord, features are limited, with only search, library and explore support, plus playback control.
The Thought Research Initiative is a known entity in the Local 58 universe. But a new video and website bring the TRI from the 80s into the 2000s, with its new breakthrough — Qualiaform Intuition. It brags that it’s “taught, not trained” and “genuine, not generative,” hinting at the horror behind the scenes.
Developer Dan Horwitz told Gizmodo his anti-Grammarly is indeed satire. But it’s also still a functional Chrome extension that promises to banish the emdash, erase annoying phrases that are dead giveaways of AI, and even introduce some typos. But maybe you should just write that email yourself to begin with.
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The suspect in a school shooting at the Canadian town described violent scenarios to ChatGPT, but even though OpenAI banned the account, it did not alert law enforcement about the person.
”I want to express my deepest condolences to the entire community,” Altman wrote in a letter published by the local publication Tumbler RidgeLines. “No one should ever have to endure a tragedy like this.”
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A report by Bloomberg points out that the DOJ has joined an xAI lawsuit against the Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence law that is set to take effect in Colorado on June 30th. In their filing, the government’s lawyers claim that by requiring developers to take “reasonable care to protect consumers” from algorithmic discrimination, the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
A new book shows how the controversial Silicon Valley partnership has accelerated the pace of war.
Initially, Google will invest $10 billion, but could pour up to $30 billion more into Anthropic if it meets certain performance targets, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon, which had already invested $8 billion in Anthropic before this week, also announced new investments into the company. It invested $5 billion on Monday and could commit “up to an additional $20 billion in the future.”
It’s all about the court of public opinion.
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is its “smartest and most intuitive” model yet. That’s probably true, and yet…
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OpenAI says a lot of things
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