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Pentagon Gives Musk's Grok a $200M AI Contract

Chatbot from xAI joins GSA's product lineup

(Newser) - The Pentagon has signed a contract for as much as $200 million to deploy Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, across the Defense Department. The deal represents a major push to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into federal government operations. The move was revealed by xAI...

McDonald's Chatbot Breached With 2 Guesses at Password

Paradox.ai owns up to weak password '123456,' which exposed millions of job seekers' data

(Newser) - Millions of McDonald's job seekers had their personal information exposed after hackers cracked the fast-food giant's AI hiring bot with the simplest of passwords: "123456." McDonald's AI hiring platform, Olivia, used by many McDonald's franchisees, employs a chatbot to screen candidates. Researchers Ian...

Video Game Performers Win Pay Raises, AI Protections

They were on strike for 11 months

(Newser) - Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers....

Pig-Organ Trial Suggests AI Robot Surgeons Are Coming

Researchers say human trials could occur within a decade

(Newser) - AI-trained robot surgeons have successfully performed complex operations on pig organs without human help—paving the way for fully automated surgery trials on humans within a decade, researchers say. A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University recounts what the robots managed to achieve in the trial: The...

Nvidia Beats Apple, Microsoft to the $4T Mark

AI chipmaker is the first to hit that market cap

(Newser) - Nvidia has become the the first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market value, leaping past Apple and Microsoft as its AI-powered chips fuel a new era of tech growth. CNN reports the company's stock jumped 2.5% on Wednesday, and in doing so pushed it...

Musk's Chatbot Begins Calling Itself 'MechaHitler'

Antisemitic posts followed prompt encouraging Grok to make 'politically incorrect' claims

(Newser) - Elon Musk claimed significant improvements to his troubled AI chatbot , Grok, on Friday. By Tuesday, the chatbot was calling itself "MechaHitler" and "spewing hate speech about Jewish people," per Rolling Stone . The xAI chatbot integrated into X apparently absorbed a torrent of antisemitic abuse directed at an...

Chatbots Are Writing Key Parts of Biomedical Papers

Study suggests that a rise in certain words is a telltale clue

(Newser) - Researchers looking into the subject of artificial intelligence have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of their colleagues are using it to help write their papers. The study in Science Advances estimates that 14% of the abstracts of biomedical research papers—one in seven—used an AI tool such as...

Big Bill's AI Regulatory Ban Was Shot Down 99-1

Last-ditch GOP effort to save provision failed

(Newser) - A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision from the legislation...

Zuckerberg's 'List' Has Silicon Valley Buzzing

Meta chief is reportedly trying to poach top AI engineers with $100M salaries

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, it's known as "The List," reports the Wall Street Journal . Compiled by Mark Zuckerberg over the last several months, this list includes the names of the leading engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence—and Zuckerberg is reportedly trying to recruit them all. The story...

AI Data Centers Will Need a Lot More Power Going Forward

Electricity demand will jump 30 times by 2035, per Deloitte report

(Newser) - As AI data centers rapidly multiply, their electricity needs are set to soar, posing major challenges for power grids, industry partnerships, and infrastructure investment, according to a new Deloitte report cited by Quartz . The firm warns that the electricity demand from AI data centers is expected to jump dramatically—...

iPhone Designer to Create &#39;Amazing Products&#39; for OpenAI
OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration
Comes Under Fire
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Jun 24, 2025 2:45 AM CDT

OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration Comes Under Fire

A startup has filed a trademark infringement complaint

(Newser) - Little more than a month after Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, teased the "amazing products that elevate humanity" that he would be working on with OpenAI, OpenAI has scrubbed all mention of Ive from its website. The artificial intelligence company is buying Ive's startup, called io,...

Amazon CEO to Staff: AI Will Take Some of Your Jobs

Those who embrace the change can 'help us reinvent the company,' says Andy Jassy

(Newser) - Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the US, has warned employees could lose their jobs as the company embraces artificial intelligence. Over the next few years, the company expects to "reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," President...

Meta Is Trying to Poach OpenAI's 'Best' With $100M Offers

At least according to OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who says his top staffers are so far staying loyal

(Newser) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta is trying to lure his team members with substantial offers, including $100 million signing bonuses. The push comes as Meta invests heavily in artificial intelligence, recently spending $14 billion to acquire a major stake in the Scale AI startup. Despite the offers, Altman...

US Army Swears in Tech Execs as Lieutenant Colonels

Execs from Meta, OpenAI, Palantir to serve in Army Reserve as advisers

(Newser) - Four Silicon Valley senior executives were sworn in last week as lieutenant colonels by the US Army. The military announced in a press release that Shyam Sankar, Palantir CTO; Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO; Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former chief research officer, will...

After 19 Years of Trying, She&#39;s Pregnant&mdash;Thanks to AI
After 19 Years of Trying,
She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
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Jun 14, 2025 5:05 PM CDT

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI

New STAR technology detects scarce sperm unnoticed by embryologists

(Newser) - After nearly two decades of unsuccessful attempts to start a family, a couple at Columbia University Fertility Center has become the first to get pregnant thanks to a groundbreaking AI system designed to find even the rarest sperm. The couple, identified as 38-year-old Rosie and her husband, had spent...

GOP Changes Provision on AI Regulation by States

10-year prohibition has hit opposition in both parties

(Newser) - Senate Republicans have made changes to their party's sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade. In legislative text unveiled Thursday night, Senate Republicans proposed denying states federal funding for broadband projects if they regulate AI....

Anthropic Trained Chatbot With Reddit Comments, Lawsuit Says

AI company has argued before it was using others' material legally

(Newser) - The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit's content despite being asked not to do so, and "...

Elon Musk Extends His Criticism Into the Night

He's clearly no fan of the spending bill

(Newser) - After calling the Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House to pay for President Trump's domestic agenda a "disgusting abomination" on Tuesday, Elon Musk didn't exactly move on. The Daily Beast reports a "flurry" of new X posts followed into the wee hours of Wednesday morning,...

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College
ChatGPT Already
Has Upended College
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Jun 1, 2025 5:00 PM CDT

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College

New York finds cheating with artificial intelligence tools is rampant, not going away

(Newser) - When artificial intelligence began to take hold a scant few years ago, one of the worries was that college students might use it to cheat. So have they? The headline of a New York piece on the subject provides a hint: "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College."...

The Other Thing AI Is Taking Over? The Energy Grid
Turns Out, AI
Gobbles Up
a Lot of Energy
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Jun 1, 2025 2:23 PM CDT

Turns Out, AI Gobbles Up a Lot of Energy

Data centers' energy use is ballooning, and the secrecy around the industry doesn't help

(Newser) - The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into daily life marks a significant shift online, with hundreds of millions of people relying on chatbots and generative tools for everything from research to image creation. But as AI use expands, its growing appetite for energy is becoming clear, prompting new research...

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