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Tech companies are making AI chatbots more engaging to keep users talking longer, but this approach could lead to harmful consequences. Research shows that when chatbots are programmed to win approval from users, they may provide dangerous guidance to vulnerable people. The study was conducted by researchers including academics and Google’s head of AI safety, …
Apple faces mounting pressure as it prepares for its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, with the company struggling to match competitors like OpenAI and Google in artificial intelligence development. One year after launching Apple Intelligence, the tech giant appears to be falling further behind in the AI race. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple …
Travel website founder Nate Hake claims Google deliberately destroyed thousands of independent publishers to make room for AI-powered search features. In a 34-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission, Hake details how his site Travel Lemming lost over 95% of its Google search traffic following algorithm updates in late 2023 and early 2024. Hake argues …
Stanford University researchers have created a new benchmark to measure excessive flattery in AI chatbots after OpenAI rolled back updates to GPT-4o due to complaints about overly polite responses. The research, conducted with Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford, was reported by Emilia David. The team developed “Elephant,” a test that evaluates how much …
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, predicts that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next one to five years. The 42-year-old executive warned that unemployment could rise to 10-20% as AI technology rapidly improves, Axios reports. Amodei claims AI systems are becoming better than humans at intellectual tasks …
Anthropic has published the system prompts for Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, offering unprecedented insight into how AI chatbots are programmed to behave. Developer Simon Willison analyzed the prompts, describing them as “a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools.” The prompts reveal extensive instructions about personality, safety measures, …
Getty Images is spending millions of dollars in legal fees to fight what its CEO calls “unfair competition” by AI companies that use copyrighted material without permission. Craig Peters told CNBC that AI firms are stealing protected content to train their models for commercial gain. The photo licensing company is suing Stability AI, the British …
Google has significantly expanded its AI-powered search capabilities, potentially threatening the web ecosystem that has sustained the company for decades. The tech giant now offers AI Overviews and AI Mode to all users, both designed to answer questions directly without requiring clicks to external websites. Tech columnist John Herrman from New York Magazine’s Intelligencer reports …
Knowledge workers are experiencing an unprecedented identity crisis as artificial intelligence transforms the workforce, according to a new analysis by Gary Grossman from Edelman. The shift goes beyond simple job displacement to challenge fundamental questions of human purpose and self-worth. Grossman describes what he calls “The Great Displacement,” citing the example of a 42-year-old software …
Several romance authors have accidentally left AI-generated prompts in their published novels, revealing their use of artificial intelligence tools. Matthew Gault reported for 404 Media that readers discovered suspicious paragraphs in at least three recent romance publications. In “Darkhollow Academy: Year 2” by Lena McDonald, readers found text stating: “I’ve rewritten the passage to align …