Elon Musk’s xAI appears to have gotten rid of the Nazi-loving incarnation of Grok that emerged Tuesday with a surprisingly simple fix: It deleted one line of code that permitted the bot to…
Which words give AI away? A new study of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts on PubMed found that at least 13.5% of scientific papers published in 2024 show signs of AI-assisted writing tools,…
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down from her post, one day after the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok took on an antisemitic persona and started calling itself “MechaHitler.”…
Grok had a meltdown moment or two today, and users started noticing it was behaving weird. First came an antisemitic remark that was offensive enough. Then Elon Musk’s AI platform started referring to…
A high-profile Polymarket contract asking whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July closed with a final resolution of “No” on Tuesday evening, despite widespread…
A computer developer known as Boris the Brave conducted an experiment that placed the 17 major language models through the official Harry Potter house quiz, sampling each question 20 times and…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he is rethinking his long-held preference for permissive software licenses, advocating for broader use of “copyleft” frameworks as open source enters what he…
Are we mistaking angels for aliens? A viral post by U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has sparked debate over whether a recent UFO image shows a biblical being instead of an…
The Trump crypto conference tour continues, with Eric Trump confirmed to speak at BTC Asia in Hong Kong in August. Hong Kong is pushing through a variety of pro-crypto legislation through its local…
Apple’s head of foundation models, Ruoming Pang, has reportedly left the company to join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, adding to a growing list of high-profile names allegedly poached to bolster…