The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What ...
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Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AIGoogle Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google has quietly been offering to buy access to code written by developers who have released Android apps on the Play Store in order to help the company train its AI coding tools, 404 Media has learned. Google has emailed some app developers with an offer to “join a confidential ...
Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents RevealMicrosoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
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Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or ReliabilityNvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or Reliability
A new paper from researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and University of California Riverside found that AI agents with access to a computer, or computer-use agents (CUAs), will often take weird and dangerous actions in an attempt to complete a task for a human user. The paper, titled Just Do It!? ...
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRSHere is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
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AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AIAI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI
If you want a barometer of American political concerns you could do worse than checking what spam accounts are turning into AI-generated slop on Facebook. There are now hundreds of pages with names like “Life in Texas,” “History of Wisconsin,” and “Life Is Idaho” churning out dozens of AI-generated images ...
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially EverythingWe Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through our ongoing lawsuit against ICE. In September, we sued ICE for documents related to its ...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedHackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House ...
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees CheatedAmazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work. Amazon’s official announcement said that it ended the leaderboard because it had accomplished its goal of encouraging employees to use AI tools, but multiple Amazon employees told me they ...
‘Highly Plausible’ Aliens on Europa Are Earthlings’ Descendants, Study Says‘Highly Plausible’ Aliens on Europa Are Earthlings’ Descendants, Study Says
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the stories this week that spread life across space, went stir crazy for science, held the colony together, and peacefully sat it out. First, what if we went all the way to Europa only to find that some earthly bacteria already set up ...