Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval
Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.
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AI // Open the pod doors
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.
John Timmer
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Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer
Perplexity says AI access to your files is in “secure environment with clear safeguards.”
Kyle Orland
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“Use a gun” or “beat the crap out of him”: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds
Character.AI deemed “uniquely unsafe” among 10 chatbots tested by CCDH.
Jon Brodkin
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Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor
GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.
Kyle Orland
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AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?
Is it clean “reverse engineering” or just an LLM-filtered “derivative work”?
Kyle Orland
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network
The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.
Samuel Axon
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After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos
One toggle for “fast classic search.”
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Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing
Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.
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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
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Google’s new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but it’s not yet an official Google product.
Ryan Whitwam
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Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can’t convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.
Ashley Belanger
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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé
Hayden AI also claims co-founder improperly sold over $1.2M in stock.
Cyrus Farivar
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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta accused of “concealing the facts” about smart glass users’ privacy.
Scharon Harding
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OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability
Updates come amid user blowback over the company’s Pentagon deal.
Samuel Axon
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Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
John Timmer
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Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”
Gemini allegedly called man its “husband,” said they could be together in death.
Jon Brodkin
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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Dan Goodin
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Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren’t enough.
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Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
WIRED
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Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools
CEO says “most companies are late” to realize how much technology will affect employment.
Financial Times
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Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents
It’s also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.
Samuel Axon
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xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise
“Temu sound wall” not enough to quell fury over xAI’s power plant.
Ashley Belanger
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Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today
Google’s new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.
Ryan Whitwam
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Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
Even twisting an ex-employee’s text to favor xAI’s reading fails to sway judge.
Ashley Belanger
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The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.
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Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else
CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.
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Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal
AMD will supply 6 gigawatts’ worth of chips to buttress Meta’s AI efforts.
Financial Times
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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can’t sway dedicated farmers.
Ashley Belanger
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New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”
But Asha Sharma faces scrutiny for lack of gaming experience.
Kyle Orland
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AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.
Financial Times
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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
Blames “user error, not AI error” for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.
Financial Times
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Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was “mistakenly” marked public domain.
Ashley Belanger
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Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis
“AI Injury Attorneys” target the chatbot design itself.
Cyrus Farivar
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Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it’s better at complex problem-solving
Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for “your hardest challenges.”
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