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Amazon CEO to Staff: AI Will Take Some of Your Jobs

Those who embrace the change can 'help us reinvent the company,' says Andy Jassy

(Newser) - Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the US, has warned employees could lose their jobs as the company embraces artificial intelligence. Over the next few years, the company expects to "reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," President...

Meta Is Trying to Poach OpenAI's 'Best' With $100M Offers

At least according to OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who says his top staffers are so far staying loyal

(Newser) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta is trying to lure his team members with substantial offers, including $100 million signing bonuses. The push comes as Meta invests heavily in artificial intelligence, recently spending $14 billion to acquire a major stake in the Scale AI startup. Despite the offers, Altman...

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
After 19 Years of Trying,
She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
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Jun 14, 2025 5:05 PM CDT

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI

New STAR technology detects scarce sperm unnoticed by embryologists

(Newser) - After nearly two decades of unsuccessful attempts to start a family, a couple at Columbia University Fertility Center has become the first to get pregnant thanks to a groundbreaking AI system designed to find even the rarest sperm. The couple, identified as 38-year-old Rosie and her husband, had spent...

Gabbard: AI Checked JFK Files for Secrets Before Release

The technology is helping to speed up intelligence work, director says

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. Speaking at a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information, the AP reports. The...

Disney, Universal Sue 'Bottomless Pit of Plagiarism'

Lawsuit says AI company Midjourney refused requests to stop using copyrighted material

(Newser) - "Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism," Disney and Universal say in a landmark copyright-infringement lawsuit against the AI image generator. Artists and authors, among others, have sued AI companies that scrape content from the internet and elsewhere to train their software, but...

Meta Having Trouble Combating 'Nudify' Tools

CBS News investigation finds ads for the tools across Instagram, Facebook, Threads

(Newser) - Meta says it has removed various ads for AI tools offering to create sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of real people. A CBS News investigation found dozens of ads for the apps on Instagram's Stories feature and estimated there were "hundreds" across Meta's platforms. Some advertised...

GOP Changes Provision on AI Regulation by States

10-year prohibition has hit opposition in both parties

(Newser) - Senate Republicans have made changes to their party's sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade. In legislative text unveiled Thursday night, Senate Republicans proposed denying states federal funding for broadband projects if they regulate AI....

Dead Sea Scrolls Are Older Than We Knew
Dead Sea Scrolls Are
Older Than We Knew
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Jun 5, 2025 7:16 AM CDT

Dead Sea Scrolls Are Older Than We Knew

AI-assisted study dates texts to the time of the original Bible authors

(Newser) - Some of the Dead Sea scrolls are up to a century older than previously believed, with several as old as original books from the Bible, according to researchers helped by artificial intelligence . The ancient scrolls, discovered in caves on the north shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank...

Anthropic Trained Chatbot With Reddit Comments, Lawsuit Says

AI company has argued before it was using others' material legally

(Newser) - The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit's content despite being asked not to do so, and "...

Meta Goes Nuclear to Juice Up Its AI
AI Is Driving Big Tech Nuclear
Jun 4, 2025 6:01 AM CDT

AI Is Driving Big Tech Nuclear

Meta is latest company to secure nuclear power to meet surging artificial-intelligence demands

(Newser) - Meta has cut a 20-year deal to secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial intelligence and other computing needs at Facebook's parent company. The investment with Meta will also expand the output of a Constellation Energy nuclear plant in Illinois. The agreement announced Tuesday is just...

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College
ChatGPT Already
Has Upended College
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Jun 1, 2025 5:00 PM CDT

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College

New York finds cheating with artificial intelligence tools is rampant, not going away

(Newser) - When artificial intelligence began to take hold a scant few years ago, one of the worries was that college students might use it to cheat. So have they? The headline of a New York piece on the subject provides a hint: "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College."...

The Other Thing AI Is Taking Over? The Energy Grid
Turns Out, AI
Gobbles Up
a Lot of Energy
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Jun 1, 2025 2:23 PM CDT

Turns Out, AI Gobbles Up a Lot of Energy

Data centers' energy use is ballooning, and the secrecy around the industry doesn't help

(Newser) - The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into daily life marks a significant shift online, with hundreds of millions of people relying on chatbots and generative tools for everything from research to image creation. But as AI use expands, its growing appetite for energy is becoming clear, prompting new research...

iPhone Designer to Create 'Amazing Products' for OpenAI

Company says Jony Ive will help design a new generation of AI devices

(Newser) - "I believe everything I've done in my career was leading to this," says Jony Ive, the former Apple exec who designed the iPhone. OpenAI is buying Ive's io startup in a deal that could bring artificial intelligence to a new range of devices, moving beyond screens....

Books on This Reading List Are Impossible to Find

Because an AI bot made them up, as the Chicago Sun-Times admits

(Newser) - Another entry in the annals of AI gaffes: A supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times recommended a list of 15 books to read over the summer. The problem? Ten of the books by big-name authors don't actually exist in the real world, reports Ars Technica . Instead, they are figments of...

College Student Busts Teacher Using AI, Demands Refund
Student Busts Teacher Using
AI, Demands Tuition Refund
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May 18, 2025 6:55 AM CDT

Student Busts Teacher Using AI, Demands Tuition Refund

'He's telling us not to use it, and then he's using it himself,' she said.

(Newser) - Her course syllabus forbade the use of artificial intelligence, which is why Northeastern student Ella Stapleton was surprised to discover that the instructor in her organizational behavior class earlier this year was using ChatGPT to shape lessons. "He's telling us not to use it, and then he's...

Musk's Chatbot Suddenly Sounds a Lot Like Him
Musk's Chatbot Is Acting Up
May 15, 2025 8:17 AM CDT

Musk's Chatbot Is Acting Up

Grok AI kept repeating claims of a white genocide in South Africa on Tuesday

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI chatbot couldn't stop talking about "white genocide" in South Africa on Tuesday, repeating the far-right conspiracy theory touted by President Trump and Musk himself. The Grok chatbot from Musk's xAI company, which is integrated into Musk's social media platform X, repeatedly brought...

A Big Problem for AI: 'Hallucinations' Getting Worse

New York Times examines the problem as artificial intelligence systems gain power

(Newser) - A strange thing is happening in the world of artificial intelligence: As the bots grow more powerful, they are generating more mistakes—"hallucinations"—than ever, reports the New York Times . And as the story by tech writers Cade Metz and Karen Weise explains, "It is not entirely...

How Fake N. Korean Remote Workers Infiltrate Tech Jobs

US facilitators, fake resumes, and AI scams fuel the scheme

(Newser) - A Belgian startup founder's search for a new coder ended up finding him more than an eager employee. Simon Wijckmans, based in London and running the web security company c/side, began spotting candidates with strong resumes but odd signals: suspicious accents, noisy backgrounds, shaky connections, and a preoccupation...

Top Concern on Pope Leo's Mind: Artificial Intelligence

New pontiff laid out his vision for the Catholic Church on Saturday, citing the late Francis

(Newser) - Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy on Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue some of the core priorities of the late Pope Francis. In his first formal audience, Leo repeatedly cited the Argentine pope's...

Dead Man Addresses Killer in Court With Help From AI
AI Version of
Dead Man
Addresses
His Killer
VIDEO
May 7, 2025 7:16 AM CDT

AI Version of Dead Man Addresses His Killer

This could be the first example of AI delivering a victim impact statement

(Newser) - An Arizona man killed in a road rage shooting in 2021 confronted his killer in court on Monday, or at least an AI version of him did. After gathering more than 40 victim impact statements from Chris Pelkey's friends and family, his sister, Stacey Wales, was left wondering what...

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