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Senators move to keep Big Tech’s creepy companion bots away from kids

Senators move to keep Big Tech’s creepy companion bots away from kids

Big Tech immediately opposed the proposed law as “heavy-handed.”…

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AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon

AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon

Both AMD and Intel continue to serve low-end PCs with aging silicon.

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Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.

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AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

Generative search engines often cite sites that wouldn’t appear in Google’s top 100 links.

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New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

Software provider AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for about 14% of fraud attempts.

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Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says.

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A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

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