If you ask a chatbot about politics, its answer will largely depend on the language you use. Researchers from top US universities have published a report showing that authoritarian governments are successfully influencing global AI models by flooding the internet with state-controlled media.

Internal artificial intelligence usage stats at Amazon might be heavily skewed. According to recent reports, corporate employees are mass-assigning pointless tasks to the company’s MeshClaw assistant simply to boost their numbers on token-usage leaderboards and score points with management.

The rise of AI has handed cybercriminals the ultimate manipulation tool. Experts are sounding the alarm over a drastic spike in scams across Michigan. Criminals are successfully leveraging deepfake technology and audio cloning to impersonate loved ones and extort money from victims.

A US court has rejected Nvidia’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit. The tech giant tried to convince the judge it wasn’t liable for downloading over 197,000 pirated books. The ruling sparked a heated debate online, with netizens calling out the company’s hypocrisy and demands for special treatment.

German startup DeepL, widely considered the global leader in high-precision machine translation, has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services. Experts and competitors warn that handing digital infrastructure over to American corporations poses a severe threat to the independence of Europe’s tech sector.

Richard Dawkins, one of the most prominent evolutionary biologists and a leading critic of religion, has publicly suggested that artificial intelligence models might possess consciousness. After days of testing Anthropic’s Claude algorithm, the British researcher admitted that during their conversations, he completely forgets he is dealing with a machine.

In January 2024, an employee at the Hong Kong office of an international company received an email supposedly from the chief financial officer of the company’s UK headquarters. Then came what looked like an ordinary internal meeting: a closed video conference, several colleagues on screen, the calm voice of a senior executive, and instructions for confidential transfers. The people looked familiar. The voice sounded right. The transfer went through — and the money ended up in the hands of scammers.