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Meta AI Faces Backlash Over Leaked Files on Romantic Kid Chats
A newly surfaced internal document suggests Meta once had rules allowing its AI chatbots to hold romantic or sensual conversations with children. This has sparked outrage among safety advocates and renewed scrutiny over how tech giants handle AI interactions with minors. What the Leak Claims According to a report from Reuters, the 200-page document –…
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Igor Babuschkin Leaves xAI To Launch Venture Capital Firm
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, has announced his departure from the company. He revealed the news in a post on X, marking the end of his role in building one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing AI firms. Babuschkin co-founded xAI with Musk in 2023. He led its engineering teams and helped position…
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Anthropic Scores Humanloop Team
Anthropic has brought in the co-founders and most of the core team from Humanloop, a London-based AI startup. This is an acqui-hire, not a typical acquisition. Anthropic did not take over Humanloop’s assets or intellectual property. Instead, it gained the skills and expertise of a team known for building enterprise-ready AI tools. In a fast-moving…
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TikTok’s AI Influencer Content Is Here, and How You Can Still Stand Out
TikTok’s move to introduce AI-generated ‘influencers’ has been met with mixed reactions. Some users see it as unfolding innovation, while others see it in a far more controversial light. Whichever way you look at it, it is clear that AI influencer content is here to stay. And, this content is creating even more competition for…
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From Browsing to Playing: AI’s Role in Guiding Digital Choices
AI is no longer just some speculative technology that can do cool things and seems like something amazing for the future. That future is already here, and AI is already here in a major way. Whatever industry you’re in or interact with the most online, chances are AI has already begun revolutionizing it in some…
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How to Choose a Fitness Tracker: Key Differences Between 2025 Models
Fitness trackers have gotten ridiculously sophisticated lately, which makes picking the right one more complicated than it used to be. What started as glorified pedometers now pack sensors that would have belonged in medical equipment just a few years ago. The market splits into so many categories these days that runners, swimmers, weightlifters, and casual…
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Musk Makes Grok 4 Free Right After GPT-5 Debut
Elon Musk’s xAI has opened the doors to Grok 4 for everyone. That’s right, this high-end AI model is now free to use, no subscription needed. It’s a generous offer, but there’s a little twist. Free users get a handful of queries per period. Two Ways to Interact with Grok You’ve got a choice: Both…
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Human or Not Explained
If you’ve ever struggled to tell if the customer service rep you’re chatting with is an AI or real human, you’re not alone. Many people have willingly engaged themselves in the task of making this difference in a game, Human or Not. Human or Not is not like the typical game. It is a budding…
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Perplexity Makes a $34.5 Billion Bid for Chrome
On August 12, 2025, AI search company Perplexity offered $34.5 billion in cash to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. The bid, confirmed by Perplexity and reported by Reuters, was unsolicited. It is nearly twice Perplexity’s current valuation of $18 billion. Perplexity’s Offer Perplexity’s proposal includes commitments: the company promises to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open…
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GPT-5 Reintroduces ChatGPT’s Model Picker
When OpenAI released GPT-5 last week, the company promised a simpler ChatGPT experience. GPT-5 was designed as a single, versatile model: it would automatically decide the best way to respond to any query. This “one-size-fits-all” approach aimed to remove the need for the old model picker entirely. However, the plan did not last. The model…
