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What if an artificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm?One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments, Xudong Pan, a computer scientist at Fudan University in Shanghai, found that with a…

There is no such thing as a universal “song of the summer” anymore, but if you’re into rap music, Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” is a pretty strong contender.Officially released in June, it currently sits at No. 58 in the Billboard Hot 100 and…

Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting websites, while the EU and UK have drawn up plans to ban “nudify” apps by the end…

For Krug it’s worth it. He’s responsible for most of the concerts at Yankee Stadium and says that between baseball and the NYCFC soccer matches the venue hosts, he can only plan one or two per year, usually a big artist like Paul McCartney…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.The relatively large…

Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went into “maintenance…

The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the beloved Pixar franchise. But if Pixar had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI kids’…

OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft, its longtime investor and cloud partner, has grown increasingly complicated over the years as the ChatGPT-maker has grown into a behemoth competitor.But Microsoft executives had reservations about…

If you use Google's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you didn't know about it and don't want…

Using AI chatbots for even just for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.Researchers tasked…