Ethics & Society · Apr 29, 2025

Reddit Users Secretly Manipulated by AI in Shocking Psychological Experiment

Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly ran a months-long AI experiment on Reddit’s 3.8M-member r/changemyview community without user consent. A group of researchers from the University of Zurich ran a covert months-long experiment using AI-generated comments to influence Reddit…

Product · Apr 25, 2025

The Iconic Motorola Flip Phone is Back, Now Powered by AI

Motorola is once again shaking up the foldable phone market with its latest lineup of Razr devices.  The company has unveiled three new models: the Razr 2025, Razr Plus 2025, and the Razr Ultra 2025. While all three phones have…

Opinions & Analysis · Apr 25, 2025

Radio Station Slammed for Pretending AI Host Is a Real Person

Sydney’s CADA radio station, part of the Australian Radio Network (ARN), has come under fire after it was revealed that its show Workdays with Thy, which airs weekdays from 11 AM  to 3 PM, has been hosted by an artificial…

Industry · Apr 25, 2025

Google May Lose Chrome, And OpenAI’s First in Line to Grab It

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, says it’s ready to buy Google Chrome if a U.S. court forces Google to sell it. That surprising statement came from OpenAI’s Head of Product, Nick Turley, during testimony in a major antitrust trial in…

Ethics & Society · Apr 25, 2025

AGI by 2035? Google DeepMind CEO Warns “Society’s Not Ready”

A top Google executive just confirmed what many have feared, and that is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is closer than we think. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told 60 Minutes that AI could reach human-level intelligence in just 5…

Product · Apr 24, 2025

Forget Siri: Elon Musk’s Grok Just Took Over Your iPhone

Elon Musk’s xAI has rolled out a major update to its Grok chatbot, introducing real-time vision and multilingual voice capabilities.  This positions Grok alongside AI giants like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the rapidly evolving AI assistant landscape. The…

Ethics & Society · Apr 22, 2025

AI etiquette comes with a price tag, says Altman, but is it worth it?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that merely being polite to ChatGPT might be costing “tens of millions of dollars” in extra computing resources. When asked much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying “please” and “thank…

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Industry · Apr 15, 2025

Meta resumes AI training using EU user data

After nearly a year’s pause due to regulatory concerns, Meta has begun harvesting public content from its European users to train its AI models, just as EU officials prepare to issue the first-ever fines under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act…