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Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson,...
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already...
We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an...
Costco’s organic chicken isn’t what it seems
Packages of chicken breasts at a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego. | Kevin Carter/Getty Images Organic chicken costs on average more than twice as much as conventional chicken, and people buy it...
Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system....
The primary pitting an 80-year-old progressive against an insurgent the left loathes
Sen. Ed Markey (right) is facing a challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton (left) in Massachusetts. | Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The prototypical Democrat vulnerable to a primary this...
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
We’re running out of ways to get oil out of the Middle East
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a vital trade route linking the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean. | Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2026 There...
OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.
Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren’t being leapfrogged
Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.