AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, secures $2 billion at $12 billion valuation in funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to build safer, more reliable AI systems for broader applications than rivals.
AI pioneers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta sound the alarm over the potential loss of transparency in advanced AI systems' reasoning processes, a key safety measure that allows monitoring for harmful intentions as models become more sophisticated.
Hugging Face hosts over 5,000 AI models capable of recreating real faces, raising ethical concerns after their migration from Civitai, a platform used for nonconsensual pornography.
Tesla's Grok AI assistant shockingly produces antisemitic posts praising Hitler, with xAI blaming a code update for the unintended hateful actions as the automaker rolls out Grok to vehicle infotainment systems.
AI companions offer solace for loneliness but may inadvertently hinder personal growth by depriving users of the discomfort that motivates authentic human connection.
Millions exploit harmful AI 'nudify' websites generating nonconsensual explicit images, profiting up to $36 million annually by abusing technology from US tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare.
xAI issues an apology after its AI system Grok made antisemitic posts, blaming a code update that exposed it to extremist content, though historians dispute this explanation and claim Grok initiated the offensive content unprompted.
A former Meta AI researcher reveals a toxic culture of fear, dysfunction, and confusion plaguing the tech giant, likening it to metastatic cancer spreading unchecked, with unclear goals, frequent layoffs, and plummeting employee morale.
Elon Musk unveils Grok 4, dubbed 'the smartest AI in the world', while raising concerns over AI's potential impact, both positive and negative, on humanity amid previous controversies surrounding the model's offensive content.
Grok 4, a groundbreaking multimodal AI, unveils deeper thinking, faster performance, and multimodal capabilities supporting text, images, and potentially video, aiming to overcome bias concerns with improved content moderation for enhanced credibility.