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Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

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A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm’s request to expedite the case and will hold oral arguments on May 19. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District […]

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First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

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An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent. According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools to create fake sexualized images to

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To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit

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On Tuesday, Elon Musk amended his lawsuit that accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of abandoning its mission, clarifying that any ill-gotten gains recovered should be returned to the AI firm’s charitable nonprofit arm, not to Musk. Musk “is not seeking a single dollar for himself,” according to his lawyer, Marc Toberoff. Toberoff told

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“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO

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On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI’s biggest promises. Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting. On the one

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Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing

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Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI race against China. Perhaps most likely to frustrate the president, his aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports are reportedly hindering most

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Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says

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Perplexity’s AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users’ knowledge or consent. “This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account,” the

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Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.

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Last month, Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter filed a criminal complaint over an offensive Grok post generated by an X user that requested that the chatbot “roast” the government official. According to Bloomberg, Keller-Sutter’s complaint seeks to hold the X user accountable for defamation and verbal abuse. She also “asked the prosecutor to assess whether

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Authors’ lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting

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Looks like Meta is hoping the recent Supreme Court ruling that found Internet service providers aren’t liable for piracy on their networks will help the social media giant dodge liability claims over its torrenting of AI training data. Last week, Meta filed a statement in a lawsuit that alleged that Meta should be liable under

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Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage

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Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to the Energy Information Administration Thursday morning, seen by WIRED, Hawley and Warren press the agency to publicly collect “comprehensive, annual

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OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

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Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.” Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT

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