Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Pay Per Crawl
Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Flip Flop
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Talent War
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Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI MD
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Business, Open Season
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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn’t Terrible
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Trip Advisor
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OpenAI Loses Four Key Researchers to Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Talent Wars
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
Gear, Gear / Trends, Bot Blah
OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Five Levels
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Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Uncanny Valley
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
The Big Story, Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Prompt Daddy
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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors’ books.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Wars
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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Wars
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Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space
A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires—and using AI to process all the data being collected.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Sky Eye
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Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It’s Too Late
Unmanned vehicles are increasingly becoming essential weapons of war. But with a potential conflict with China looming large, Taiwan is scrambling to build a domestic drone industry from scratch.
Security, Security / National Security, Security / Security News, Tick Tock
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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is superintelligence anyway?
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Uncanny Valley
‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup’s new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Copy That
What Big Tech’s Band of Execs Will Do in the Army
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
Business, Business / Tech Culture, Plaintext
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How AI Is Helping Kids Find the Right College
College counselors in the US are too overworked to meet with every student. A new wave of specialized AI tools can learn students’ interests, then recommend schools, areas of study, and scholarships.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Higher Education
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
Science, Science / Environment, Mysteries
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