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In brief Salem, Mass. police called the TikTok trend “stupid and potentially dangerous” in a public safety alert. Videos showing AI “intruders” have triggered real emergency calls and alarmed family members. Critics say the prank dehumanizes unhoused people while exposing risks of AI-generated deception. Police departments from Massachusetts to Texas are warning residents about a…
In brief Authors E. Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore have sued Salesforce, alleging it “pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books” to develop its XGen AI models. The lawsuit claims Salesforce initially disclosed using the “RedPajama-Books” dataset in June 2023, then deleted references two months later, rebranding training data as simply “publicly available.” Salesforce CEO…
In brief Veo 3.1 introduces full-scene audio, dialogue, and ambient sound generation. The launch follows Sora 2’s rapid rise to 1 million downloads within five days. Google positions Veo as a professional-grade alternative in the crowded AI video market. Google released Veo 3.1 today, an updated version of its AI video generator that adds audio…
In brief The Gemma-based model generated and validated a new cancer-therapy hypothesis in human cell experiments. It identified silmitasertib as a conditional amplifier that boosts immune visibility of tumors. The result hints that scaled biological AI models can invent—not just optimize—new scientific ideas. Google DeepMind said Wednesday that its latest biological artificial-intelligence system has generated…
In brief Researchers have revealed a “super prompt” that boosts model creativity by 2x thanks to verbalized sampling. It works by asking the model to list several responses with probability estimates before choosing one. The method offers an easy, training-free fix for AI’s growing sameness problem—though skeptics warn it may add noise, not insight. A…
In brief OpenAI unveiled an eight-member Expert Council on Well-Being and AI on Tuesday. The same day, CEO Sam Altman said verified adults will soon be allowed to write erotica using ChatGPT. The moves come amid lawsuits and criticism over AI’s role in youth mental health crises. OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has formed an…
In brief OpenAI will finally loosen its filters, letting verified adults generate erotic and romantic content in ChatGPT. The change follows years of user backlash, with frustrated writers and role-players petitioning for an “Adult Mode.” Rivals like Grok and Character.AI are already uncensored, but the best models are still open source. Gooners of the world,…
In brief Penn State researchers found that “very rude” prompts outperformed “very polite” ones in accuracy. The results contradict prior studies claiming LLMs respond better to a courteous tone. Findings imply that tone itself, once dismissed as etiquette, may be a hidden variable in prompt engineering. Being polite might make you a better person, but…
In brief Attack success depended on sample count, not dataset percentage. Larger models were no harder to poison than smaller ones. Clean retraining reduced, but did not always remove, backdoors. It turns out poisoning an AI doesn’t take an army of hackers—just a few hundred well-placed documents.A new study found that poisoning an AI model’s…
In brief SB 243 makes California the first state to regulate AI “companion” chatbots that simulate friendship or romance. The law mandates identity disclosures, bans sexual or self-harm topics with minors, and sets suicide-response protocols. Safety groups say the final bill was “watered down” after lobbying, calling it “an empty gesture rather than meaningful policy.”…
