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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a...

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to...

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness...

The $50 Million Movie ‘Here’ De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI

On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real-time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors...

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against...

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced "reasoning" capabilities as the next big step in their latest...