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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.

‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car

‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car

What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.

AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail That Summarizes Emails

Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail That Summarizes Emails

New Gmail features, powered by the Gemini model, are part of Google’s continued push for users to incorporate AI into their daily life and conversations.

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?

Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.

AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers

AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers

In one notable case, a Toronto lawyer is facing a criminal contempt of court proceeding after including cases invented by ChatGPT in her submissions earlier this year.

HCLSoftware to acquire Jaspersoft for reported $240M

HCLSoftware to acquire Jaspersoft for reported $240M

HCLSoftware Inc. plans to acquire Jaspersoft Inc., a provider of business intelligence software, in an all-cash deal reportedly valued at $240 million. The company announced the transaction on Mond...

Snowflake reportedly seeking to acquire observability startup Observe for $1B

Snowflake reportedly seeking to acquire observability startup Observe for $1B

Snowflake Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Observe Inc., a startup with a cloud-based observability platform of the same name. The Information on Tuesday cited sources as saying that the ac...

AtScale raises funding round led by Snowflake Ventures

AtScale raises funding round led by Snowflake Ventures

Data management provider AtScale Inc. today announced that it has closed a funding round led by Snowflake Inc.’s venture capital arm. The company didn’t specify the size of the deal, saying onl...

Ottawa using AI to review public comments on its AI strategy

Ottawa using AI to review public comments on its AI strategy

The federal government is using artificial intelligence to sort through public input on AI policy.

Couchbase puts AI data and services into a single platform to simplify agent development

Couchbase puts AI data and services into a single platform to simplify agent development

Cloud database company Couchbase Inc. said today it’s trying to reduce the complexity of agentic application development with the launch of a new suite of AI Services that bundle model hosting an...

TransUnion improves device detection to counter rising fraud threats

TransUnion improves device detection to counter rising fraud threats

TransUnion LLC has introduced a major upgrade to its Device Risk fraud-detection platform, adding new capabilities designed to improve device recognition, identify anomalies and apply adaptive mach...

Channel3 raises $6M to make every product sold on the web discoverable by AI agents

Channel3 raises $6M to make every product sold on the web discoverable by AI agents

A database infrastructure startup called Channel3 is building a catalog that it says will eventually list every single product available to buy across the entire internet, in order to make them dis...

Microsoft pledges $7.5B in AI investment in Canada for next 2 years

Microsoft pledges $7.5B in AI investment in Canada for next 2 years

The $7.5 billion will be invested over the next two years, bringing Microsoft’s total AI investment in Canada between 2023 and 2027 to $19 billion.

Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability

Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability

Agentic data trust company Ataccama Corp. said today it has closed on a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from Snowflake Ventures. The data company said it would help deepen its interac...