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LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review

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Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

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What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025

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Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic

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OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model

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PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT

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Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of

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AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them

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Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases

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AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to

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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it

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Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines

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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.

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Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one

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Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin

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Ziz update thread, started 19 February

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AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline

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Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation

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El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals

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How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’