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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:00:14

As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness. And that's not all.

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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

news.ycombinator.com Dalya Alberge 2025-08-25 08:19:44

Twenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, are to be premiered a century after the death of the notoriously eccentric and innovative French composer. Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century. James Nye, a British musicologist and composer

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This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2025-08-25 12:00:40

Until a few years ago, the town of Plympton, Massachusetts, was quite literally throwing away money. People were producing so much trash that it was threatening to put the municipal transfer station out of business. Under the town’s system, residents would buy a $240 sticker for their cars that allowed them yearlong access to the dump, where they could dispose of as much garbage as they wished. But the sheer volume, combined with climbing landfill fees, meant that this service was costing the l

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Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-25 14:25:09

After 2024’s Transformers One came and went, it’s been a question of whether we’d actually see the Autobots and Decepticons on the big screen. The answer now appears to be “yes,” and not just because Paramount’s still pretending that crossover with G.I. Joe is happening. According to Matt Belloni at Puck News, the studio is spinning up several Transformers movies. One is said to be helmed by One director Josh Cooley, and will be live-action. The other is said to be coming from ex-franchise stew

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T-Mobile Is the New Mobile Network Champ. I Got a Behind-the-Scenes View Into How It Got There

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 13:03:02

Last week T-Mobile announced that it's been named the Best Mobile Network in the US by Ookla, marking the first time the carrier has taken the overall top spot. That's based on half a billion real-world usage tests conducted over a six-month period. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) During a live event at its Tech Experience Hub in Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile also announced a July 23 commercial launch date for T-Satellite, its Starlink-based satell

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Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, says financial advisor Ric Edelman

cnbc.com Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith Afshan Musani 2025-08-26 01:22:28

Four years ago, financial advisor Ric Edelman went out on a limb in saying everyone should hold cryptocurrencies. But how much? Low single digits was his recommendation. In his "The Truth about Crypto" book in 2021, Edelman said as low as a 1% allocation was reasonable. A lot has changed. This week, Edelman said financial advisors should be recommending anywhere from 10% to 40% allocations to cryptocurrencies, and he is aware it's quite a shift in his own thinking. "Today I am saying 40%, th

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Tesla recently lost two key execs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-26 01:15:18

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yesterday, reports from Forbes and CNBC said that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who formerly led operations in North America and Europe and was a close confidant of Musk’s. (Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal also reported that Afshar left the company, but did not say he was fired.) The firing follows a major slump in sales for Tesla’s automotive business – last quarter, rev

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Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, say financial advisor Ric Edelman

cnbc.com Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith Afshan Musani 2025-08-26 05:49:09

Four years ago, financial advisor Ric Edelman went out on a limb in saying everyone should hold cryptocurrencies. But how much? Low single digits was his recommendation. In his "The Truth about Crypto" book in 2021, Edelman said as low as a 1% allocation was reasonable. A lot has changed. This week, Edelman said financial advisors should be recommending anywhere from 10% to 40% allocations to cryptocurrencies, and he is aware it's quite a shift in his own thinking. "Today I am saying 40%, th

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Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

venturebeat.com Joe Maglitta 2025-08-26 05:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI pilots rarely start with a deep discussion of infrastructure and hardware. But seasoned scalers warn that deploying high-value production workloads will not end happily without strategic, ongoing focus on a key enterprise-grade foundation. Good news: There’s growing recognition by enterprises about the pivotal role infrastructure plays in e

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Model minimalism: The new AI strategy saving companies millions

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-26 05:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has made it easier for enterprises to envision the kinds of projects they can undertake, leading to a surge in pilot programs now transitioning to deployment. However, as these projects gained momentum, enterprises realized that the earlier LLMs they had used were unwieldy and, worse, expensive. Ente

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Supreme Court upholds Texas porn law that caused Pornhub to leave the state

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-26 03:25:02

The Supreme Court today upheld a Texas law that requires age verification on porn sites, finding that the state's age-gating law doesn't violate the First Amendment. The 6–3 decision delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas rejected an appeal by the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-industry lobby group. Pornhub disabled its website in Texas last year because of the state law. The Supreme Court's conservative majority decided that the law should be reviewed under the standard of intermediate scrutin

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Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-26 13:40:15

People watch as the logo for Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron at Times Square in New York on April 14, 2021. Coinbase is the top performer in the S&P 500 in June, boosted by positive regulatory updates, product launches and, of course, its very inclusion in the benchmark stock index at the end of May. The crypto exchange's outperformance in the S&P 500 extends back to the April 8 market low, just after President Donald Trump's

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4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in your business - and why

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-08-26 13:52:00

Muhammad Aqib / Getty Images The unstoppable march of AI continues to gather pace. Analyst Gartner recently forecast that half of all business decisions will be fully automated or at least partially augmented by AI agents within the next two years. Also: 4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage Some organizations have experimented more than others. Four business leaders who have explored AI shared lessons learned at a recent media roundtable event at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francis

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ChatGPT Use Is Rising But a Surprising Number of Americans Still Haven't Heard of It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 13:00:00

About a third of American adults say they've used the generative AI tool ChatGPT, while one in five say they've never heard of it, according to new survey results released this week by the Pew Research Center. The 34% who said they have used the gen AI tool from OpenAI include 58% of adults under 30, the largest share among any age cohort. The share of ChatGPT users drops with age: 41% of those 30 to 49, 25% of those 50 to 64 and 10% of those 65 and older. There is also a correlation with educa

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Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-26 13:43:28

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Those in favor – including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and a16z’s Marc Andreessen – argue that a “patchwork” of AI regulation among states would stifle American innovation at a time when the race to beat China is heating up. Crit

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Salesforce CEO says 50% of company work is now done by AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-08-27 13:42:00

What just happened? Not every company is slowing down its rush to go all-in on AI – Salesforce certainly isn't. According to CEO Marc Benioff, up to 50% of work being done at the software giant is now performed by AI. Benioff had plenty of praise for the technology, but said little about how it will impact those it puts out of work. Speaking in an interview on Bloomberg's The Circuit with Emily Chang, Benioff said "All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that be

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Quantum computing is having a moment. But the technology remains futuristic

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-27 13:00:02

Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing chip Microsoft It doesn't quite have the buzz of artificial intelligence, but quantum computing is having a moment of its own. Some of the most powerful institutions in the world, including Google , Microsoft , Amazon , IBM and the U.S. government, are spending many millions of dollars in a race to develop and build the first practical quantum computer. Startups focused on quantum technology attracted about $2 billion last year, according to a McKinsey &

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Do these 4 things before betting on AI in your business - and why

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-08-27 13:22:00

Muhammad Aqib / Getty Images The unstoppable march of AI continues to gather pace. Analyst Gartner recently forecast that half of all business decisions will be fully automated or at least partially augmented by AI agents within the next two years. Also: 4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage Some organizations have experimented more than others. Four business leaders who have explored AI shared lessons learned at a recent media roundtable event at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francis

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New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force

news.ycombinator.com Brian O'Donovan 2025-08-27 22:47:29

New EU rules come into force tomorrow which will require websites, apps and devices to be accessible for people with disabilities and older people. If companies fail to comply with the European Accessibility Act they could be hit with fines and even prison sentences for senior staff. Brian Dalton is blind and is a wheelchair user. He is also a senior accessibility test engineer who works with clients to ensure their websites are accessible. Mr Dalton relies on screen reader software to navig

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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

news.ycombinator.com Miranda Bryant 2025-08-27 20:39:02

The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe. Having secured broad cross-party agreement, the department of culture plans to submit a proposal to ame

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Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-28 00:36:04

Tucked between two massive buildings in the hills of the Nevada desert, 805 retired EV batteries lie in neat formation, each one wrapped in nondescript white tarps — and hiding in plain sight. A passerby might not realize this unassuming array is the largest microgrid in North America, that it’s powering a 2,000 GPU modular data center for AI infrastructure company Crusoe, or that it represents the next big act of JB Straubel, the co-founder and CEO of Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials anno

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The hidden scaling cliff that’s about to break your agent rollouts

venturebeat.com Marty Swant 2025-08-28 01:33:40

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprises that want to build and scale agents also need to embrace another reality: agents aren’t built like other software. Agents are “categorically different” in how they’re built, how they operate, and how they’re improved, according to Writer CEO and co-founder May Habib. This means ditching the traditional software development lif

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What enterprise leaders can learn from LinkedIn’s success with AI agents

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-28 13:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more AI agents are one of the hottest topics in tech right now — but how many enterprises have actually deployed and are actively using them? LinkedIn says it has with its LinkedIn hiring assistant. Going beyond its popular recommender systems and AI-powered search, the company’s AI agent sources and recruits job candidates through a simple na

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Apple reveals complex system of App Store fees to avoid EU fine of 500 million euro

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-28 17:31:28

Apple Thursday made changes to its App Store European policies, saying it believes the new rules will help the company avoid a fine of 500 million euro ($585 million) from the EU for violating the Digital Markets Act. The new policies are a complicated system of fees and programs for app makers, with some developers now paying three separate fees for one download. Apple also is going to introduce a new set of rules for all app developers in Europe, which includes a fee called the "core technolo

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Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's explosive past

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 01:09:36

The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust. The beads, each less than 1 mm across, formed some 3.3 to 3.6 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions on the surface of the then-young satellite. "They're some of the most amazing extraterrestrial samples we have," said Ryan Ogliore, an associate prof

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'Made in the USA' reference disappears from Trump phone listing

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-29 05:53:29

'Made in the USA' reference disappears from Trump phone listing "Speculation to the contrary is simply inaccurate," a spokesperson told the BBC. But the Trump Mobile organisation says the phone will still be made in America. A "Made in the USA" tagline featured in promotional material for the Trump T1 phone when it launched on 16 June, was no longer displayed on its site as of Wednesday, reporters found. Days after the Trump Organisation announced plans to launch a US-made smartphone, a refe

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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-29 21:00:35

Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without obtaining consent. His court has granted summary judgment to Meta, which means the case didn't reach full trial. Chhabria said that Meta didn't violate copyright law after the plaintiffs had failed to show sufficient evidence that the company's use of the authors' work would hurt them financially.

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Trump Organization scraps 'made in the USA' tag for its gold T1 smartphone

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-30 04:26:46

US President Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 24, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after attending a MAGA, Inc. dinner at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC. The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag. A spokesperson for the Trump Org

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Verizon Is Enlisting Google's AI to Resolve Support Calls on the First Try

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 06:09:03

Verizon's cryptic Project 624 flew under the radar until this week, when the carrier announced a new customer service program built on Google Gemini AI technology that's intended to resolve issues on first contact. If it works as intended, subscribers should be able to avoid the time-sucking support slog that is often a hallmark of modern troubleshooting. Sowmyanarayan Sampath, CEO of Verizon's consumer group, laid out changes to the customer experience that went live Tuesday, which include a t

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Adopt or die? How Southeast Asian small businesses are using AI to stay competitive

cnbc.com Bernice Ooi 2025-08-30 07:54:19

ASEAN member nations' flags outside the Pullman Hotel, the venue for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' retreat meeting in Luang Prabang, Laos, in January 2024. Tang Chhin Sothytang Chhin Sothy | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and China are usually top of mind when it comes to artificial intelligence and generative AI. But Southeast Asia's small businesses have huge potential that shouldn't be ignored, experts say. In fact, it's a matter of survival, according to Jochen Wirtz, a professor of marketing a

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened

Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

T-Mobile Is the New Mobile Network Champ. I Got a Behind-the-Scenes View Into How It Got There

Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, says financial advisor Ric Edelman

Tesla recently lost two key execs

Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, say financial advisor Ric Edelman

Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

Model minimalism: The new AI strategy saving companies millions

Supreme Court upholds Texas porn law that caused Pornhub to leave the state

Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in your business - and why

ChatGPT Use Is Rising But a Surprising Number of Americans Still Haven't Heard of It

Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

Salesforce CEO says 50% of company work is now done by AI

Quantum computing is having a moment. But the technology remains futuristic

Do these 4 things before betting on AI in your business - and why

New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers

The hidden scaling cliff that’s about to break your agent rollouts

What enterprise leaders can learn from LinkedIn’s success with AI agents

Apple reveals complex system of App Store fees to avoid EU fine of 500 million euro

Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's explosive past

'Made in the USA' reference disappears from Trump phone listing

Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors

Trump Organization scraps 'made in the USA' tag for its gold T1 smartphone

Verizon Is Enlisting Google's AI to Resolve Support Calls on the First Try

Adopt or die? How Southeast Asian small businesses are using AI to stay competitive

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