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Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it!

ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.

Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions

1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot

Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it

Google takes AI propaganda to the movies

Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture

Firing people for AI: not going so well

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025

AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request

AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query

Google: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”

ChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data

UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead

eating our own dogshit

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books