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 Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service.

Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service.

2025-02-25 The Verge
Artificial intelligence has become the preferred customer service manager for a number of companies, following its rapid rise in recent years. More and more employees have been ‘replaced’ by this cutting-edge technology, which is capable of performing simple and repetitive tasks. According to companies, this implem...
 AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library.

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library.

2025-02-24 404 Media
The world of publishing has gradually become more and more filled with literary works, making it quite complex to achieve a certain level of fame for most books - the number of novels and essays on offer is so great that it exceeds demand. Since artificial intelligence has made its way into the field in question, this ...
 Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek.

Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek.

2025-02-21 404 Media
The USA appears to be feeling a certain fear towards China; the Eastern power has always been an American enemy, yet it would seem that the state's sinophobia is reaching unprecedented levels outside of wartime. Recently, legislation titled ‘Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act’ ...
 'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'

'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'

2025-02-20 BBC News
The term ‘feminism’ takes on different nuances depending on the community using it; although the dictionary definition always carries the same meaning, the cultural environment within which it is used loads the word with different expectations. Nowadays, in Europe, claiming to be a feminist does not trigger any kin...
 Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal.

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal.

2025-02-19 WIRED
In order to feed the inexorable development of artificial intelligence, it is essential to have the right material to supply the models, so that they can improve day by day. Considering the constant advancement of this technology, the valuable content needed to ‘feed’ the various artificial intelligences is rapidly...
 AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications.

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications.

2025-02-18 404 Media
The use of artificial intelligence in everyday life is undoubtedly getting out of hand. As a result of this endless diffusion, several users seem to have lost the ability to write cohesive and coherent texts and to perform simple tasks requiring a minimum of brain effort. Within most of today's companies, the use of a...
 DeepSeek under accusation: Microsoft and OpenAI suspect data theft.

DeepSeek under accusation: Microsoft and OpenAI suspect data theft.

2025-02-17 The Cryptonomist
The last week of January saw the unexpected release of Deepseek, a Chinese artificial intelligence model that immediately sent the US tech industry into a panic. The interesting novelty offered by this model, in fact, lies in its being completely free and far cheaper to maintain than its American competitors. Followin...
 AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say.

AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say.

2025-02-14 Art News
Should art generated by artificial intelligence be eligible for copyright protection? In recent years, this topic has often been discussed, leading to various clashes of opinion and ideological conflicts - according to those directly involved, the artists whose lives are based on the valorisationof their work,art is no...
 NordVPN Will Soon Let You Block the VPN Blockers.

NordVPN Will Soon Let You Block the VPN Blockers.

2025-02-13 Vice
Nowadays, it is essential to implement the use of a VPNwhen surfing the vast world of the Internet. This tool acts as a virtual private network, providing users with a higher level of protection for their data, including confidentiality, integrity and authentication. In the age of digital crime, the first step to safeg...
 LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs.

LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs.

2025-02-12 404 Media
Over time, platforms dedicated to the professional-work environment have also been targeted by artificial intelligence. In the case of LinkedIn, a social networking web service dedicated to the development of professional contacts, some particularly peculiar users seem to have appeared recently. Adorned with the famou...
 DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core.

DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core.

2025-02-11 404 Media
The last week of January was the scene of the release of DeepSeek R1, the latest artificial intelligence model from the company of the same name; and the reaction from enthusiasts and competitor companies was quite intense. The release of this version sent the stock market and the resulting US companies most involved i...
 Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location.

Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location.

2025-02-10 404 Media
According to the latest news, tracing the location of the original owners of certain posts or messages in popular social media and messaging applications could be extremely easy. The digital communication landscape is clearly a rather fascinating target for those interested in the huge amounts of data shared on a daily...
 Another OpenAI Researcher Quit—and Said He’s ‘Pretty Terrified’.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quit—and Said He’s ‘Pretty Terrified’.

2025-02-07 Vice
Several researchers formerly employed by OpenAI, one of the leading companies in the AI sector, have recently made the decision to resign and subsequently leave the company - if not the environment itself. In this case it is Steven Adler, a former security researcher who shared his sad opinion on X. ‘I'm honestly qu...
 The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds.

The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds.

2025-02-06 404 Media
Graylark Technologies, a Boston-based company specialising in AI, has recently developed and released a product called ‘GeoSpy’: a powerful artificial intelligence tool capable of discovering the location of photos based on features within the image itself. The tool could prove fundamental for law enforcement agenc...
 Paul McCartney: Don't let AI rip off artists.

Paul McCartney: Don't let AI rip off artists.

2025-02-05 BBC News
‘We are the people, you are the government! You must protect us. That's your job!’ Said Sir Paul McCartney, one of the two surviving members of the Beatles, in a recent interview regarding the current state of the UK Copyright Act. In recent times, the British government has proposed changes to the law in question...
 Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy.

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy.

2025-02-04 404 Media
The beginning of 2025 brought good intentions, plans and a certain sense of hope for the future. However, it also brought a lot of news in the technological sphere - who would have expected that one of the social networking giants would disappear? Although it was a temporary removal, Tiktok was actually banned on US so...