State officials allege a Character.AI bot claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist and provided a fake state medical license number.
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Scott Turow’s latest real-life legal thriller: Suing Meta for copyright infringement
Five major publishing houses and the bestselling author are suing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly training its Llama generative AI models on millions of copyrighted materials.
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Did FBI Director Kash Patel use AI to rip off the Beastie Boys?
An analysis by NPR suggests that frames from an iconic music video were used to generate content for a tweet by the FBI director.
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A tech worker in China is laid off and replaced by AI. Is it legal?
A tech worker in eastern China’s Hangzhou city was dismissed after his job was replaced by AI. An appeals court in the city has ruled the dismissal unlawful.
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In court, Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of trying to ‘have your cake and eat it, too’
In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he’d helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.
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As trial against OpenAI begins, Elon Musk seeks Sam Altman’s ouster
If Musk gets what he’s asking for, it would radically re-shape one of the world’s leading AI companies.
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‘Self-aware’ robots can learn complex tasks by watching humans. Is that a good thing?
Scientists say they’ve made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts say it raises questions about how much risk comes with letting robots be in charge of their own learning.
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The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here’s what we found
The short course provides solid basics for using AI. But it also misidentifies AI products, links out to bad advice and raises ethical concerns about the products it promotes
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Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun
Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.
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How AI is getting better at finding security holes
Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in “every major operating system and web browser.” Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.
