Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for…

(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive aspects of this technology. Let’s try doing this in…

An essential part of being able to say ‘I told you so’ is in fact having told you so. Here goes. In April 2023, I wrote an article titled AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies. In this piece I also announced I was going to make a fool of myself by making some AI predictions. I have singularly…

Bubble Bobble Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way. "Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices. Benj Edwards – Aug 21, 2025 6:06 PM | 136 Sam Altman during the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.…

In a move no one asked for, Meta is introducing “Vibes,” a new feed in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai for sharing and creating short-form, AI-generated videos. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially AI slop. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the…

A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks…

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all. I’ll explain. Since ChatGPT’s viral success in late 2022, which drove every…

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here. But just in case…

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary." According to Forrester's "Predictions 2026: The Future Of Work" analysis, half of AI-attributed layoffs are likely to be reversed. Tech industry grad…

On 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.” As a psychiatrist who studies emerging psychosis in adolescents and young adults, this was news to me. Researchers…

Anthropic made headlines Thursday when it released research claiming that a previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group used the company’s Claude AI generative AI product to breach at least 30 different organizations. According to Anthropic’s report, the threat actor was able to bypass…

As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later. More recently, he’s become the odd man out at Meta. Despite worldwide renown as one of the godfathers of artificial…

updated Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion or more during the quarter. Let's look first at page 9 of the official earnings…

The Big Short guy is short on trust in the state of the current economy. Earlier this week, it came to light that Michael Burry, famously depicted by Christian Bale in Adam McKay’s telling of the 2008 housing crisis, is shutting the doors to his hedge fund Scion Capital because he believes the…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal The Oatmeal Home Comics Animations Games Books Subscribe Blog A cartoonist's review of AI art This is a comic about AI art. A note from the author Special thanks to my friends Matt Harding and Allie Brosh for their insight and inspiration when writing…

People walk on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor…

Photo by Fachy Marín on Unsplash The Fire Season At a recent CEO dinner in Menlo Park, someone asked the familiar question: Are we in an AI bubble? One of the dinner guests, a veteran of multiple Silicon Valley cycles, reframed the conversation entirely. She argued for thinking of this moment as a…

Hello, my friends. Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave. You may not have heard of it because it’s not doing the consumer-facing part of AI. It’s a data center company, the kind people talk about when they say they want to invest in…

Listen to this story Illustration: Timo Lenzen On November 20th American statisticians released the results of a survey. Buried in the data is a trend with implications for trillions of dollars of spending. Researchers at the Census Bureau ask firms if they have used artificial intelligence “in…

I want to respond to my buddy Joseph Thacker's blog post about whether Prompt Injection is a vulnerability. josephthacker.com Prompt Injection Isn't a Vulnerability (Most of the Time) Prompt injection is almost never the root cause of AI vulnerabilities—the actual issue is what the model is…

I want to respond to this blog post that's arguing that prompt injection strings are essentially zero-days that we should not share with attackers. disesdi.substack.com AI Red Teaming Has An OPSEC Problem Don't buy, invest in, or pay for a course about 'AI red teaming' until you read this Nov 23,…

AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025) that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI. I use a Job vs. Gym analogy. If we're working a manual labor job it's fine to have AI lift heavy things for us because the actual goal…

SummaryCompanies Tech giants' bond issuance raises market absorption concernsInvestors demand premiums for new tech bond dealsAI spending doubts linked to debt financing needs NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Investors are growing uneasy that the rapid rise in public debt used to bankroll AI investments…

(Image credit: Getty Images/YUI MOK) Managing asset depreciation is a core component of most modern businesses, but where you can spread the cost of some assets over a decade, or less, modern GPUs threaten an altogether more aggressive lifecycle. The gains being made generation upon generation,…

not ready for prime time Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying. Benj Edwards – Dec 3, 2025 1:24 PM | 122 Credit: Wong Yu Liang via Getty Images Credit: Wong Yu…

Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail.…

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The controversy around the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood’s creators were “using stolen performances”. Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI “talent studio” Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film…

Join the club Thousands of top tech executives, journalists, academics and civil society workers read our reporting on — and analysis of — the day's biggest events at the intersection of technology and democracy. I. Earlier this week, an AI talent studio named Xicoia drew consternation from…

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after…

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss 22 hours ago Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent and Liv McMahonBBC Technology Journalist Reuters OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push…

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. “We can’t figure out why it has increased so much.” Kevin Stanley, of Broadway East, Baltimore “No way I could continue to pay that kind of bill.” Nicole…

A leading British tech investor has described soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies as “disconcerting”, amid concerns of an AI stock market bubble. James Anderson was an early backer of Tesla, Amazon and China’s Tencent and Alibaba, generating vast returns for Baillie Gifford’s…

Prompt injection, where adversaries manipulate inputs to make large language models behave in unintended ways, has long posed a threat to AI systems since the earliest days of LLM deployment. While defenders have made progress securing models against text-based attacks, the shift to multimodal and…

No more MUNCHING Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad. Brandon Roberts, Vernal Coleman, and Eric Umansky, ProPublica – Jun 6, 2025 9:17 AM | 46 Credit: Getty | KAREN BLEIER Credit: Getty | KAREN BLEIER Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only…

In a court filing this week, Apple claimed that searches fell last month for the first time in 22 years on Safari on iOS devices. They think this is due to AI, and signalled an interest in adopting OpenAI, Perplexity, or Anthropic search services for their phones in the future. Google denied the…