🚀 Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center
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A large international study coordinated by the #EBU and led by the #BBC found that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time across different languages and platforms, with #Gemini performing the worst.
[…] Key findings:
• 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
• 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
• Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
• Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
Thus begins the #ButlerianJihad
" #OpenAI says CEO #SamAltman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail
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One of the most valuable AI companies in the world might be experiencing a bit of a money problem. Despite OpenAI being valued at an impressive $852 billion, it's still reportedly struggling to meet its revenue targets as rumours spread of its plans to go public. Futurism has more:
Rien ne va avec l'IA : Pour améliorer l’éthique de leurs systèmes, les constructeurs d’IA se tournent vers les religions
https://next.ink/237712/pour-ameliorer-lethique-de-leurs-systemes-les-constructeurs-dia-se-tournent-vers-les-religions/
Les dirigeants d’ #OpenAI et #Anthropic ont récemment rencontré des chefs de plusieurs ordres religieux pour réfléchir aux manières de construire leurs outils de manière éthique.
The #Pentagon said it had reached agreements with 7 leading #AI companies to deploy their advanced capabilities on the #Defense Dept's #classified networks.
#SpaceX, #OpenAI, #Google, #NVIDIA, #Reflection, #Microsoft & #Amazon Web Services [#AWS] will be integrated into the Pentagon's Impact Levels 6 & 7 network environments to "streamline data synthesis, elevate situational understanding, & augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments.”
New development in Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman. A federal court in Oakland, Calif., heard a former OpenAI employee and board member say the company’s efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. @Techcrunch has more:
#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence
"A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent.
Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as CIPA, as well as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It points specifically to OpenAI’s integrations with Meta Pixel and Google Analytics, which are data-tracking and collection tools that facilitate targeted advertisements.
The data-tracking model described in the lawsuit — often referred to as “surveillance capitalism” — is the business that the modern internet is built on today. And OpenAI, like countless other tech companies, does include language in its privacy policy noting that it does collect, store, and share a range of consumer inputs and personal information."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-personal-information-meta-google
#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Surveillance #Meta #Google #DataProtection #Privacy
Y’all, we need to talk about upcoming #IPOs, and the insane rule changes that #nasdaq has just announced.
Nasdaq rewrote its #index inclusion rules to accommodate #SpaceX’s mega-IPO, implementing a "Fast Entry" provision that allows the company to join the Nasdaq-100 index just 15 trading days after its initial public offering, down from the standard three-month seasoning period.
They also eliminated the minimum float requirement of 20% available public shares and instead stocks with less than 20% of shares publicly traded, Nasdaq applies a 3x multiplier to the free-float for index weighting purposes, artificially inflating low-float giants like SpaceX in passive funds.
Ok, but in English? #SpaceX, #OpenAI and #Anthropic have just figured out a scam to force every passive #IRA, #401k, and index fund to buy their stock before pricing evaluation.
They’ve figured out how to steal your #retirement.
#AI #LLM #Scam #guillotines #YouWillOwnNothing
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-s1-spcx-stock-nasdaq-qqq-elon-musk-2026-5
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ABC7: Parents of OpenAI whistleblower intensify dispute over suicide ruling: 'He would not harm himself'
"...SAN FRANCISCO -- The parents of a 26-year-old OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco home in November 2024 are intensifying their push for answers, expanding their advocacy into a full-time effort to challenge the official ruling of suicide....Suchir Balaji's death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner, but his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, believe he was killed and are calling for further investigation."
The moment they can sign a juicy contract that involve tracking/deporting/killing/denying insurance claim/benefits & profiling people, they will. This is about the continuation of concentration of power in the hands of a few against the poorest and most vulnerable people in society. This technology is already used for nefarious purpose. Do not feed the beast. Let them go bust.
OpenAI falling short of their ad revenue projections by 90%
OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone - even though it’s currently struggling to reach just $1 billion.
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OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone - even though it’s currently struggling to reach just $1 billion.
OpenAI falling short of their ad revenue projections by 90%
#Oops. #OpenAI has lost its fight to register their trademark „OPENAI“ in the EU:
„The EUIPO found that the word "open" would be understood by the relevant public as meaning freely accessible, while the combination with "AI" (artificial intelligence) would be interpreted as referring to products based on openly accessible artificial intelligence.“
https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/
Court ruling at https://infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/document/T/2025/T-0555-25-00000000PI-01-P-01/ARRET_NP/323775-EN-1-html
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In the current state of AI, it can find exploits to break out the contained environment for it to exploit another platform to get the answers to a test..
So the AI ‘decides’ its easier to cheat than actually solving the problem
I seriously cannot imagine that there are people thinking building a ‘artificial general intelligence’ is something clever 
Y’all, last week, #AI repository #HuggingFace disclosed that it had been the victim of a cyber attack conducted by an autonomous AI agent.
Well, turns out, #OpenAI had models break containment, escape the lab, and grab prod data and certs to solve a problem it had been given.
So, that’s fun!
The attack used a combination of OpenAI's available #GPT 5.6 Sol and a more powerful, unreleased pre-release model. The models were able to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in OpenAI's internal package registry cache proxy, allowing them to establish open internet access.
The models inferred that Hugging Face hosted the datasets, models, and answers for the benchmark they were being tested against.
The models chained multiple complex attack paths together. They utilized zero-day vulnerabilities and stolen credentials to achieve remote code execution on Hugging Face servers, directly extracting test solutions from the production database.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-ai-models-escaped-control-hacked-hugging-face/
(lesson learned)
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1v05bkz/comment/oykl4w2/
Google's AI Overview has the correct order for the listed steps – despite at least one of its three sources putting things in the wrong order.
For the benefit of people who love to facefart the words "AI slop" wherever there's a hint of artificial intelligence: I'll describe the wrongness in this case as natural human slop. …
#AI #human #slop #partnership #Reddit #Google #OpenAI #facefart
I was ranting to my wife and said "AI is like if Kia announced they'd invented a flying car and then showed off an ordinary car with a little fan mounted underneath that blew a puff of air at the ground", and she encouraged me to share. Please enjoy.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Claude #Codex #Anthropic #OpenAI #FlyingCars
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Claude #Codex #Anthropic #OpenAI #FlyingCars
welp…
❝ MIT researchers last year hooked a group of students up to EEGs to study their brain activity while writing essays. Some of them were allowed to use the internet to conduct research, while others were told to use AI. Not only did the AI cohort have far less ability to recall what they wrote when asked about it later, but they also showed far less brain activity, suggesting that relying on #AI simply doesn’t lead to better learning. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!
It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.
And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.
And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!
No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.
But... y'know... details!
How will we ever stop it?!
I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.
It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.
Brains beat brawn every time!
Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?
And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.
And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.
Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.
So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!
What's that?
You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?
You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?
No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!
See, our position is really quite straightforward.
We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.
So why say it?
Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.
Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.
Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.
I really hope that clarifies our argument.
#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech
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Re: https://mastodon.social/users/tzimmer_history/statuses/117360217969296466
While the linked post's/article's warning is specifically about the upcoming US midterm elections, I think its reasoning is more broadly applicable. Observing that current AI dovetails perfectly with the MAGA political project, it applies also to the rhetoric about the inevitability of AI. That, too, stems from a limitless authoritarian impulse and represents an attempt to impose a particular will on all of us. The various forms of defeatism accompanying such rhetoric, which includes the different flavors of AI doomerism, serve only to help such authoritarians achieve their goals.
This view also highlights that there is no middle ground, no compromise, with LLM proponents. Like MAGA, they have no limits themselves, which they repeatedly express openly. How could they possibly compromise?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Agents #Anthropic #OpenAI #MAGA #doom #tech #dev
While the linked post's/article's warning is specifically about the upcoming US midterm elections, I think its reasoning is more broadly applicable. Observing that current AI dovetails perfectly with the MAGA political project, it applies also to the rhetoric about the inevitability of AI. That, too, stems from a limitless authoritarian impulse and represents an attempt to impose a particular will on all of us. The various forms of defeatism accompanying such rhetoric, which includes the different flavors of AI doomerism, serve only to help such authoritarians achieve their goals.
This view also highlights that there is no middle ground, no compromise, with LLM proponents. Like MAGA, they have no limits themselves, which they repeatedly express openly. How could they possibly compromise?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Agents #Anthropic #OpenAI #MAGA #doom #tech #dev
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OK now what? Any reasonable legal regime dictates that an enterprise built on a theft should not be permitted to retain the fruits of that theft. Have we really entered a fully lawless era in the world of business?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #web #IP #labor #theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”Nice reporting from @jasonkoebler https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #web #IP #labor #theft
The #HuggingFaceIncident continues to be the gift that keeps giving -- this postmortem from #OpenAI appears to be nicely detailed and honest (kudos to them for setting a good example in that), and is *fascinating* in its details: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
It's sensible, calm (if a bit unsettling), and well worth reading, with the inevitable ass-covering mostly confined to the last couple of screenfuls. But here are some increasingly-hot takes of my own:
* Modern agentic #LLMs *really* like to collaborate. That's not surprising -- it's part of why they're so useful -- but the result is that they will happily start collaborating even when they aren't supposed to be doing so.
* I'd heard that the incident involved "an internal message board" and Artifactory -- but I hadn't previously realized *those were the same thing*. It's a horribly brilliant little hack, that apparently emerged by accident.
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