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They Gave a Robot a Sword
32+ min ago (332+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 12:45 PM EST Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often used dancing and martial arts to showcase their humanoid robots. Now to ring in the Chinese New Year,…...
Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company's Carelessness and Lack of Innovation
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (500+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 12:00 PM EST Earlier this week, two cofounders of Elon Musk's xAI abruptly announced their departure, meaning that half of the startup's original 12 cofounders are now officially out. And while Musk has since made the case that he was…...
Ring's "Orwellian" Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (481+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 11:15 AM EST In a now-infamous 2017 commercial that aired during that year's Super Bowl, Kendall Jenner handed a police officer confronting furious protesters a can of Pepsi. The backlash of the ad, which aired as Black Lives Matter protesters…...
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (531+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 9:45 AM EST Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans they need to complete real-life tasks. It's a strange project which, as we noted, has become quickly overrun…...
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (569+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 1:30 PM EST While new bugs in an operating system software update are certainly commonplace, some have noticed that the problem is getting worse than usual these days. Just last month, some Windows 11 enterprise users were aggravated after finding…...
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (324+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 6:45 AM EST Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he's not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious " a rhetorical framing, of course, that pointedly leaves the door open to this sensational and still-unlikely possibility being true." Amodei mused…...
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
7+ hour, 47+ min ago (596+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 10:30 AM EST A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company's blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT with ads as a "last resort." But as the company recently announced, users will be pestered by…...
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (376+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 9:00 AM EST According to new reporting by the New York Times, Meta could make the facial recognition features available to smart glasses owners as early as this year. Internally, the software goes by the designation "Name Tag." Per…...
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (292+ words) Published Feb 13, 2026 5:02 PM EST OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style'and its central role in a slew of disturbing user safety lawsuits. GPT-4o devotees, many of whom have a deep emotional attachment…...
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody's Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (421+ words) Published Feb 13, 2026 2:14 PM EST But when it comes to its own tech being copied, Google has no problem pointing fingers. This week, the company accused "commercially motivated" actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI. In a Thursday report, Google…...