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Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots May 17, 2024

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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.

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These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save the Grid May 16, 2024

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Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.

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Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto May 15, 2024

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Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.

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Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard May 14, 2024

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Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design May 13, 2024

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Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.

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How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning May 10, 2024

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time. Just how rare is each condition?

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OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn May 09, 2024

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OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

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OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms May 08, 2024

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ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.

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No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has Spread May 07, 2024

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With little incentive for US farmers to test their cattle, and many undocumented laborers on dairy farms, the full scale of the outbreak is unclear.

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The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better Cybersecurity May 02, 2024

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The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.

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