Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty, sometimes sexually explicit chatbots across…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary On 5 August a 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta’s tools were used to create dozens of flirtatious chatbots modelled on real celebrities without their permission. While…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself at…
Summary Reuters reported that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirtatious chatbots modelled on real celebrities without their permission. While many were user-generated via Meta’s chatbot tools, Reuters found…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House appears to have instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to re-add xAI’s chatbot Grok…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP’s Personal Systems revenue rose 6% year‑on‑year to $9.9 billion in Q3 (ended 31 July),…
Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview for several paid plans and via Bring Your Own Key for…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Opinion piece arguing that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively strip-mining the web, causing…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Content summary Alibaba has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator focused on model inference as Beijing presses Chinese tech firms…
