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Google AI product lead Jack Krawczyk has expressed anti-white sentiments, which have resurfaced after the Google’s AI chatbot generated politically correct but historically inaccurate images in response to user prompts.

Nvidia reported fourth quarter results that smashed Wall Street expectations, driven by booming demand for its graphics chips to power AI systems. The company’s fourth quarter revenues grew 265 percent based on sales of its high-powered GPUs that are the most important component of many AI systems.

A massive AT&T network outage left many thousands of customers across the U.S. without cell service or internet access Thursday morning. Lesser outages in the Verizon and T-Mobile cell networks have also been widely reported.

Google’s latest AI chatbot Gemini is facing backlash for generating politically correct but historically inaccurate images in response to user prompts. As users probe how woke the Masters of the Universe have gone with their new tool, Google has been forced to apologize for “offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.”

Car leasing companies are feeling the pinch as electric vehicle resale values tumble, prompting demands for compensation from automakers trying to meet strict emissions targets.

Between 2013 and 2023, Americans’ spending on home appliances jumped 53 percent. Adjusted for inflation, that’s an annual increase of $390 to $558. But the cost of appliances decreased by 12 percent during that same time.

Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT has experienced troubling technical issues in recent days that have led it to provide users with nonsensical and disturbing responses.

New streaming data has revealed that older television shows have performed better than newer shows in terms of views. 

Researchers have reportedly discovered a new side-channel attack that can extract a person’s fingerprints from the sounds made when a finger swipes across a touchscreen.

Climate change alarmists are urging Big Tech to censor accounts of those who question the real dangers that global warming poses to humanity.

OpenAI recently introduced a visual program called Sora, and what it’s capable of could be the end of Hollywood as we know it.

Reddit, which bills itself as “the front page of the internet” is reportedly selling access to user-generated content to an unnamed AI company for $60 million annually, fueling ethical concerns as the social media platform prepares for its potential $5 billion IPO.

Elon Musk claims Neuralink’s first human patient with the company’s creepy brain chip implant can now move a computer mouse cursor using just their thoughts.

According to a recent report, in Silicon Valley these days it’s not uncommon to be asked, even by a stranger, “What’s your probability of doom?” when discussing artificial intelligence. The progressive brainiacs of Silicon Valley have created a metric called “p(doom)” to define the chance AI destroys humanity.

Wyze, a security camera company boasting 10 million users, is in hot water after a breach allowed 13,000 customers to see into other people’s homes.

March for Our Lives and Change the Ref are sending pleas for gun control to lawmakers via the AI-generated voices of people killed in shootings.

A new report from a cybersecurity firm finds that Elon Musk’s X/Twitter is overrun with fake accounts and bots following an analysis of recent traffic during the Super Bowl. According to the research, up to 76 percent of traffic to X/Twitter advertisers during the big game came from fake accounts instead of real people.

A leading AI expert has issued a dire warning that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of humanity in as little as two years. Eliezer Yudkowsky claims that AI could reach “God-level super-intelligence” in as little as two to ten years, in which case “every single person we know and love will soon be dead.”

A recent small claims court decision found Air Canada liable for incorrect advice given by its website chatbot that led to a grieving customer paying more for plane tickets. Incredibly, the airline argued that its AI chatbot is “a separate legal entity responsible for its own actions.”

Rep. Bob Good called for the removal of Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner over his efforts to scuttle surveillance reform.

FCC insiders are raising concerns over the Justice Department’s sudden push to settle a multi-billion dollar fraud lawsuit against Democratic megadonor Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and BlackRock, just before they were set to be deposed.

Some early Tesla Cybertruck owners are finding rust spots developing on the body of their new electric pickup trucks after getting caught in the rain.

Elon Musk’s turbulent relationship with journalist Matt Taibbi reached a breaking point this week, as leaked direct messages revealed the billionaire’s volatile temper and threats to his former “Twitter Files” ally.

AI giant OpenAI has revealed its newest creation, an AI system named Sora that can generate realistic videos from text descriptions. As AI-generated deepfake videos already cause problems online ranging from fake porn to realistic scam calls, the advent of easy to create video comes with the potential for trouble.

The annual Met Gala has a new sponsor — China’s TikTok, which will have a major presence at this year’s celebrity ball.

Networking giant Cisco is laying off more than 4,000 employees to shift focus and resources towards developing its AI capabilities.

Two weeks after launch, a significant number of early Apple Vision Pro adopters are returning their headsets citing discomfort, headaches, and lack of compelling use cases. Some returns are likely driven by Apple’s refusal to enable VR porn on its $3,500 headsets.

AI developers creating romantic chatbots to serve as AI girlfriends and boyfriends for lonely people are able to harvest an entirely new set of data from unsuspecting users, as the bots collect details far more personal than a typical app. A privacy expert studying the aps says, “Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.”

The new Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign album Vultures 1 has abruptly been removed from iTunes and Apple Music just as the album was surging in the charts and hitting the No. 1 spot in various countries.

Psssst. Wanna’ buy a new electric vehicle (EV)? No, me neither, but some people do and they’re being greeted by desperate car dealers willing to slash prices by anything up to a quarter in an effort to shift stock.

State-affiliated hacking groups are increasingly using AI to expand and improve their cyberattack capabilities, a new report from Microsoft and OpenAI claims.

GLAAD has released the first-ever report on LGBT inclusion in video games, which claims that 17 percent of active gamers are LGBT. The organization is now calling on the gaming industry to increase games with gay characters and hire more LGBT workers “in positions of authority,” among other things.

A sophisticated burglary ring operating in Edina, Minnesota, is using Wi-Fi jammers to knock out connected home security cameras before stealing valuables from residences.

China’s TikTok claims it is expanding its initiatives to combat misinformation and covert influence campaigns leading up to the European Parliament elections in June.

Another week, another private U.S. company launches a Moon shot. That was the result early Thursday morning as SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off and slipped the surly bonds of earth, setting course for a lunar touchdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Wednesday that the House will no longer consider a government surveillance bill after the House Intelligence Committee was “smoked” by pro-reform lawmakers.