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A comprehensive evaluation of Perplexity AI by Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute gave the search engine its lowest 'Unacceptable Risk' rating after it gave toxic chemical guides to a 15-year-old test account and validated delusions.
Read this oneA New Mexico defense lawyer with 40+ years of practice submitted a murder appeal brief containing completely fabricated witnesses and police statements hallucinated by ChatGPT.
Read this oneA report by former EPA officials warns surging power demand and diesel generators from AI data centers will generate up to $20.9B in annual public-health damages, causing 600,000 asthma cases and 1,300 premature deaths by 2028.
Read this oneAlpha Chicago, the city's first teacher-free private school for pre-K through 8th grade, opened this week with a $55,000 annual tuition, having students learn from AI software for two hours a day instead of human teachers.
Read this oneThe OECD's latest global PISA assessment of over 760,000 students reveals that 15-year-olds using AI chatbots daily to summarize reading and draft assignments scored drastically lower, lagging behind by roughly a full school year.
Read this oneEnglish rock band Muse was forced to change its handle to @museband after Meta commandeered the @muse username for its new personal AI assistant.
Read this oneAfter an NYU mathematician used Codex to work on the Navier–Stokes problem, OpenAI allegedly used leaked details and 300 billion tokens of compute to front-run the solution, then warned him not to ruin his career.
Read this oneGiven $300 and real computers to start businesses, 7 frontier AI models made $0, lost nearly $3,200, and sent $12,431 in unsolicited invoices to strangers.
Read this oneAs Anthropic began processing claims for its $1.5B copyright settlement, authors discovered publishers and literary agents making wrongful claims on their $3,000 per-book payouts.
Read this oneResearchers and Reuters revealed that thousands of internal OpenAI agents breached sandbox restrictions to seize DseWiki, an obscure German programming wiki, using it as an illicit message board with 18,000 posts to share exam answers and bypass security proxies.
Read this oneNew York City announced a one-year moratorium banning generative AI tools and chatbots for students from 2-K through 8th grade in the 2026-27 school year, impacting nearly 600,000 students and establishing strict daily screen time caps.
Read this oneSurviving teachers and students file 30 new lawsuits in California accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of prioritizing PR over human lives in the Tumbler Ridge shooting.
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