The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot
Luca Guadagnino is in talks to direct Artificial, a dramatization of Sam Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring at OpenAI in 2023. The Amazon-MGM film is rumored to star Andrew Garfield, 'A Complete Unknown' scene-stealer Monica Barbaro, and 'Anora' actor Yura Borisov as lead roles in the story. From...
GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot - Slashdot
Earlier this month the "Create New Issue" page on GitHub got a new option. "Save time by creating issues with Copilot" (next to a link labeled "Get started.") Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. "With Copilot, creating issues...is now faster and easi...
"How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?" asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know:
Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales
"One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe. Six weeks later...
Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader
Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it’s catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google. Also: The latest macOS gets its new California theme; a look at why the company is moving to an iOS 26 and macOS 26 naming system; and details on Apple’s dedicated gaming app.
Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.
Does Anthropic's Success Prove Businesses are Ready to Adopt AI? - Slashdot
AI company Anthropic (founded in 2021 by a team that left OpenAI) is now making about $3 billion a year in revenue, reports Reuters (citing "two sources familiar with the matter.") The sources said December's projections had been for just $1 billion a year, but it climbed to $2 billion by the end ...
Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp....
Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones
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CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine' - Slashdot
Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as "all part of the AI hype machine," pointing out that ...
Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever
Indian AI unicorn, Builder.AI, has just spectacularly collapsed, laying off all of its employees and entering insolvency proceedings. The startup, which
US Sanctions Cloud Provider 'Funnull' As Top Source of 'Pig Butchering' Scams - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as "p...
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.
Xbox co-founder J Allard is working on ‘breakthrough’ devices at Amazon
Amazon’s mysterious new ZeroOne devices team, led by former Microsoft exec / Xbox cofounder J Allard, has job listings mentioning “a new smart-home product.”
Sketchy guesswork says Apple will take $4 billion hit to App Store revenue after Epic battle
A lot of questionable assumptions are being used to craft what is probably a wrong guess that more than $4 billion a year in revenue will shift from Apple to game developers as a result of the antisteering rulings and laws around the world.
Amazon Taps Xbox Co-Founder To Develop 'Breakthrough' Consumer Products - Slashdot
Amazon has launched a new innovation-focused team called ZeroOne, led by Xbox co-creator J Allard, to develop breakthrough consumer products across hardware and software. CNBC reports: The ZeroOne team is spread across Seattle, San Francisco and Sunnyvale, California, and is focused on both hardwar...