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People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 02:05:39

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, inc

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VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II

news.ycombinator.com Rahatgaonkar 2025-11-01 03:25:39

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Taco Bell Says ‘No Más’ to AI Drive-Thru Experiment

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-01 03:10:52

Last year, Taco Bell made a simple bet that Alexa-like voice assistants could handle the drive-thru window. It didn’t consider whether people could handle dealing with AI. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company embedded AI in the drive-thru boxes at more than 500 locations across the country and quickly found that it made mistakes, creeped people out, and got very easily manipulated. “We’re learning a lot, I’m going to be honest with you,” Taco Bell Chief Digital and Technology Offic

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There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 06:21:32

Over the past few years, the tech industry's plans for artificial intelligence have grown from ambitious to outright treacherous, with the amount of money invested in the space so high it now poses a serious risk to the broader economy. Underlying the broader, often poorly-defined AI tech are data centers, which are vast warehouses stuffed to the brim with specialized chips that transform energy into computational power, thus making all your Grok fact checks possible. The economics of data cen

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Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 07:08:08

Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by a Russian-speaking developer to create malware with advanced evasion capabilities. AI-created ransomware In another instance, tracked as ‘GTG-5004,’ a UK-b

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OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-01 07:01:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available. You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, gpt-realtime. The upgrades improve OpenAI's voice offerings for developers. This year, AI agents that can carry out tasks on behalf of users have been a major focus, with companies constantly developing offerings that reduce the user's workload. To make these interactions as

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You can now talk finance with Google's newest AI chatbot - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-01 07:57:04

AlexSecret/E+ via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You can now test the AI-powered Google Finance through Labs. The feature lets you talk to a chatbot and access advanced tools. The chatbot won't give you financial advice. US users can now opt in to test drive the new Google Finance, the company said Wednesday. A few weeks ago, Google announced that Google Finance, its platform that offers financial information and news, tools for tracking

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Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 05:38:07

Check your grammar and refine your writing with local AI. ✦ AI-Powered Corrections Grammit's AI is great at correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. But it also catches other errors. Did you accidentally write "The theory of evolution was developed by Charles Dickens"? No worries, Grammit will correct that to "Charles Darwin". ✦ AI Rephrasing and Drafting You can ask Grammit to help you with your writing tasks. Just ask it to rephrase your writing to make it more professional and it will do th

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How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-01 06:50:52

2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars. Star Trek. Tron. Blade Runner. Akira. The Fifth Element. Interstellar. Superman. Flash Gordon. The Matrix. That sounds like a list of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, but actually, it’s a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspirations behind the Backstreet Boys’ popular new residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. This past July, one of the biggest boy bands of all time celebrated 20 years of their iconic album, Millennium, at

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MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-01 06:00:00

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.ai is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning

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China Unveils Plans to Establish a Fully AI-Powered Economy by 2035

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 10:15:27

As the western world braces for the "pop" of an enormous AI spending bubble, it seems China is going all-in on the AI hype. Yesterday, the Chinese State Council — the government body responsible for carrying out Chinese Government policy, sort of like the executive branch of the US — released its ten-year plan for AI development. By 2035, it declares, AI will become a "key growth engine for the country's economic development," enabling the People's Republic to "fully enter a new stage of devel

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OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-11-01 10:50:54

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI and Anthropic may often pit their foundation models against each other, but the two companies came together to evaluate each other’s public models to test alignment. The companies said they believed that cross-evaluating accountability and safety would provide more transparency into what these powerful models could do, enabling ente

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American military service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-11-01 11:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

news.ycombinator.com Simon Späti 2025-11-01 09:40:58

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating di

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Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 11:22:02

Hey HN! We are Windsor and Cathy of Dedalus Labs ( https://www.dedaluslabs.ai/ ), a cloud platform for developers to build agentic AI applications. Our SDK allows you to connect any LLM to any MCP tools – local or hosted by us. No Dockerfiles or YAML configs required. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/s2khf1Monho?si=yiWnZh5OP4HQcAwL&t=11 Last October, I (Windsor) was trying to build a stateful code execution sandbox in the cloud that LLMs could tool-call into. This was before MCP was released, a

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Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round as No-Code Heats Up

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-01 10:58:18

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-01 11:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-01 09:00:00

What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one. This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machi

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MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-01 11:00:00

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom—where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it—an AI platform called MathGPT.AI launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.AI is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning to

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Google's AI Flies Into Rage at the Word "Clanker"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-01 14:21:45

When it's not spitting out phony game tips, suggesting you put glue on pizza, or trash-talking itself and its creator, Google's shoddy AI Overview feature has, apparently, taken up the mantle against AI and robot discrimination. As flagged by a user on the r/Artificial subreddit, searching the term "clanker" on Google causes the AI Overview to go into full defensive overdrive, blaming human anxiety surrounding technology for the creation and proliferation of such a "derogatory and potentially p

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These $250 XR glasses turned my Nintendo Switch into a 200-inch full-screen experience

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-01 15:31:00

RayNeo Air 3s Pro AR glasses ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3s Pro is available for $249 for a launch special, with a regular price of $299. These XR glasses have advanced micro-OLED screens, 20 levels of brightness, and a 201-inch screen visual experience. There is no electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows. View now at Amazon As a train commuter and regular business traveler, XR glasses have become one of my most essential tra

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3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-11-01 15:45:13

Serg Myshkovsky/Photodisc via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Business leaders should create a platform to test AI concepts. Encourage employees to take risks with AI, but proceed with care. Keep one eye on the market for new technologies that might be exploited. Making the most of AI is tough. MIT recently revealed that 95% of enterprises attempting to harness generative AI aren't seeing measurable results in revenue or growth. However, w

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How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-11-01 15:48:00

Hazal Ak / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI agents help identify and remove waste in business. All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful. CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance. In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencie

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Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-01 13:00:31

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

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Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round As No-Code Heats Up

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-01 15:58:18

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

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Mark Cuban’s war on America’s $5 trillion healthcare machine: ‘They can’t react as quickly’

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-01 15:13:18

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban thinks America’s healthcare industry is broken, and he’s not mincing words about it. “No one looks at the financial side of healthcare and says, ‘This is the way it should work,’” Cuban said on this week’s episode of the Equity podcast. “When you go to the doctor and you get a prescription . . . you have no idea what the cost to you is going to be. You don’t know if you can afford it or not.” The former “Shark Tank” host and minority owner of th

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How Gemini's 'on-premise' upgrade could help your enterprise and advance sovereign AI

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-01 19:53:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud is now available to customers. The approach brings advanced models into enterprise data centers. Gemini on GDC could support new capabilities for on-premise gen AI. There are several obstacles to the successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, including managing staff who are unsure how to use the technology, and c

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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study

news.ycombinator.com Shreya Ghosal Dylan Butts 2025-11-01 19:13:44

A Standford study has found evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of early career workers. There is growing evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of America's workers, according to a paper released on Tuesday by three Stanford University researchers. The study analyzed payroll records from millions of American workers, generated by ADP, the largest payroll software firm in the U.S. The report found

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Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plan gets caught up on trolls and glitches

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-01 19:16:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Taco Bell’s plan to outfit hundreds of drive-thrus with an AI voice assistant isn’t going exactly as the chain expected. Dane Mathews, Taco Bell’s chief digital and technology officer, admitted to The Wall Street Journal that the company is re-evaluating where t

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Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-01 19:30:00

There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness. Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this. Image Credits: Ivan Mehta The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fi

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