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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Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools
From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon’s Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Voice Do-Over
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Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren’t Doing It
Traditional and indie authors are flooding #WritersTok with videos of them editing their manuscripts to refute accusations of generative AI use—and bring readers into their very human process.
Culture, Culture / Books, Keeping It Real
This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models
On Yupp, chatbot users earn cash by saying which of two prompts they prefer—info that has great value to the AI companies running the models
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Money Bot
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The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.
Business, Business / Big Tech, Query Unusual
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Unpacking AI Agents
Need to make a dinner reservation or change your flight? Now AI agents can do that for you. This episode of Uncanny Valley looks into what Sam Altman calls “the next giant breakthrough.”
Business, Business / Tech Culture, Uncanny Valley
Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs
Engineering was once the most stable and lucrative job in tech. Then AI learned to code.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Vibe-Pilled