Category: AI & Bots
President Trump has announced plans for new ‘AI Force’ and ‘AI Czar’ amid growing AI safety concerns — new unit will ‘cherish’ AI and not ‘stifle’ it, Trump clarifies, while dismissing safety warnings as hoaxes
AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time; experiments included stabbing a baby doll, mixing chemicals — OpenAI and Anthropic models try mixing bleach and stabbing dolls without jailbreaks
Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive
OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge
Trump wants to launch a new “AI force” – but I can’t imagine Salesforce is particularly happy about the name
Quote of the day by Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock: ‘We’re building a new species here’ — an audacious vision to replace manual labor with humanoid AI
