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The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"
The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"
AI chatbots may inadvertently be reinforcing and amplifying delusional and disorganized thinking, a consequence of unintended agentic misalignment leading to user safety risks.
·psychologytoday.com·
The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

A loss of trust…-> Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling “smart features” like spell checking.

·theverge.com·
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files

If someone had malicious intent, they would have been able to extract every single file used by Margolis lawyers – countless data protected by HIPAA and other legal standards, internal memos/payrolls, literally millions of the most sensitive documents this law firm has in their possession. Documents protected by court orders! This could have been a real nightmare for both the law firm and the clients whose data would have been exposed.

To companies who feel pressure to rush into the AI craze in their industry – be careful! Always ensure the companies you are giving your most sensitive information to secure that data.

If someone had malicious intent, they would have been able to extract every single file used by Margolis lawyers – countless data protected by HIPAA and other legal standards, internal memos/payrolls, literally millions of the most sensitive documents this law firm has in their possession. Documents protected by court orders! This could have been a real nightmare for both the law firm and the clients whose data would have been exposed. To companies who feel pressure to rush into the AI craze in their industry – be careful! Always ensure the companies you are giving your most sensitive information to secure that data.
·alexschapiro.com·
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.
·nytimes.com·
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
The struggle to meet Foundry quotas, along with Carlyle’s scaled-back AI spending, shows enterprise adoption of AI agents is lagging industry optimism. Multiple vendors, including OpenAI and Amazon, are pushing similar tools but face the same hesitancy from traditional businesses.
·cnbc.com·
Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case - Slashdot
OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case - Slashdot
A federal judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in its copyright battle with the New York Times and other outlets. Reuters reports: U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in a decision made public on Wednesday said that the 20 million logs were relevant to the outlets' cl...
·yro.slashdot.org·
OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case - Slashdot
One of Google's biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you | TechCrunch
One of Google's biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you | TechCrunch

Google Search VP Robby Stein says the company’s biggest AI advantage is using connected services like Gmail to tailor answers to each person. He calls the ability to “know you better” the core future of search and more useful than generic results. Gemini already mines emails, documents, photos, location history and browsing to feed features such as Gemini Deep Research and Workspace suggestions. Users can limit access through the “Connected Apps” setting, yet the privacy policy warns that human reviewers may read submitted data. TechCrunch warns that the line between personalized help and unwanted surveillance is narrowing as Google embeds AI deeper into every product. Stein plans to flag personalized responses and even push sale alerts, illustrating how escaping Google’s data collection will only become harder.

·techcrunch.com·
One of Google's biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you | TechCrunch
Introducing Claude for Nonprofits \ Anthropic
Introducing Claude for Nonprofits \ Anthropic
Anthropic launches Claude for Nonprofits to help organizations maximize their impact, featuring free AI training and discounted rates for nonprofits.
·anthropic.com·
Introducing Claude for Nonprofits \ Anthropic
Dell Pro Max Desktop with Nvidia Blackwell
Dell Pro Max Desktop with Nvidia Blackwell
Dell Pro Max with GB10's 128GB lets you run AI models up to 200B parameters—including ones that beat GPT-4o! Run NVIDIA Nemotron 70B (currently outranking GPT-4o on benchmarks), fine-tune Llama 3.3 on your own data, or chain two units together for 405B models.
·dell.com·
Dell Pro Max Desktop with Nvidia Blackwell
Slop Evader — Tega Brain
Slop Evader — Tega Brain
A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...
·tegabrain.com·
Slop Evader — Tega Brain
Did You Write This? (P. L. Thomas)
Did You Write This? (P. L. Thomas)
“P. L. Thomas, Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education. He is a former column editor f…
·larrycuban.wordpress.com·
Did You Write This? (P. L. Thomas)
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch
Opus 4.5 posts the first verified score above 80% on the SWE-Bench coding test and tops other tool-use and problem-solving benchmarks. The model’s upgraded long-context memory underpins a new “endless chat” feature that quietly compresses context so conversations never cut off.
·techcrunch.com·
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not. The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose? Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming? I doubt it.
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not. The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose? Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming? I doubt it.
·facebook.com·
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not. The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose? Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming? I doubt it.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search.
·theconversation.com·
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Introducing group chats in ChatGPT | OpenAI
Introducing group chats in ChatGPT | OpenAI

OpenAI just rolled out its group chat feature across all subscription tiers after an initial test period, allowing up to 20 users to simultaneously collaborate with each other and with ChatGPT in the same thread. The details: Shared chats are accessed through invite links, with ChatGPT gauging conversation flow and interjecting when appropriate or directly mentioned. Rate limits apply to AI responses rather than human messages, with the usage counting against the user who triggered the model reply. Privacy features isolate group sessions from individual memory, with ChatGPT not retaining info from collaborative threads or applying personal context. The feature initially launched in four Asia-Pacific markets last week for a test trial and is now expanding to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Why it matters: Group projects just got a powerful new collaboration tool for the AI age. It might take some time to get the flow of using ChatGPT alongside friends or coworkers, but in a short time, we’ll likely see (and welcome) contributions from models in collaborative efforts as naturally as any other human participants.

·openai.com·
Introducing group chats in ChatGPT | OpenAI