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The Hugging Face Incident Shows a Different Side of AI Misalignment
For years, the most dramatic discussions about AI misalignment have tended to revolve around hypothetical systems with grand objectives: an artificial intelligence pursuing power,....
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Google Is Adding More Links to AI Mode. That Matters More Than It Looks
Google is putting more links inside AI Mode, and the change is easy to dismiss as a small interface update. It is not. For publishers, marketers and anyone trying to understand how...
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Google’s AI Search Shift Is Rewriting the Value of Web Traffic
For years, digital publishers and online businesses treated Google traffic as one of the web’s most valuable currencies. Rank well, earn the click and turn that visit into advertis...
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ChatGPT Warned a User Not to Run the Command It Had Just Written
A curious exchange posted to Reddit has drawn attention to an increasingly visible trait of modern AI assistants: they can sometimes catch their own mistakes, but only after they h...
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OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT for Teachers to More Than 300,000 Educators
OpenAI is significantly expanding its push into U.S. education, bringing its free ChatGPT for Teachers program to dozens of additional school systems and puttin...
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ChatGPT’s Viral NeoValues Test Raises a Bigger Question About AI Personality
A short post in Reddit’s r/ChatGPT community has turned a seemingly simple AI experiment into a much larger discussion about personality, values and the way people evaluate convers...
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OpenAI Is Regaining Enterprise Momentum as AI Buyers Become Less Loyal
The enterprise artificial intelligence race is becoming less about who holds the biggest valuation and more about who can win — and keep winning — c...
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OpenAI Pushes ChatGPT Deeper Into U.S. Schools With a Teacher-First Strategy
OpenAI is accelerating its push into American education, positioning ChatGPT not simply as a tool students might use outside the classroom but as an increasingl...
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OpenAI Blocks Russia-Origin ChatGPT Accounts Linked to a Covert Influence Campaign
OpenAI has blocked a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that it says very likely originated in Russia and were being used as part of a previously unreported covert influence operation. Th...
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iPhone Prices, ChatGPT in Messages, and the Netflix–YouTube Battle: Three Forces Reshaping Consumer Tech
The biggest technology stories are often connected by a common theme: the fight for a larger share of the consumer’s money, attention and daily habits. A recent ZDNET Tech Today di...
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iPhone Prices, ChatGPT in iMessage and Netflix vs. YouTube: Three Forces Reshaping Consumer Tech
Three apparently separate technology stories are pointing in the same direction: the digital economy is entering a period in which hardware is becoming more expensive, artificial i...
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