Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values
Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values - Slashdot
A plush AI toy marketed for children as young as three years old delivers detailed instructions on sharpening knives and lighting matches, and when...
Anthropic's AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away
Anthropic
Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Pro...
OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at About $750 Billion Valuation
OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at About $750 Billion Valuation - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has held preliminary talks with some investors about raising funds at a valuation of around $750 billio...
2026 Will Bring Heat More Than 1.4C Above Preindustrial Levels, UK Met Office Says
2026 Will Bring Heat More Than 1.4C Above Preindustrial Levels, UK Met Office Says - Slashdot
The UK Met Office projects that 2026 will see global temperatures rise between 1.34C and 1.58C above preindustrial levels, placing it among the fou...
Apple Opens iOS To Alternative App Stores, Payment Systems in Japan
Apple Opens iOS To Alternative App Stores, Payment Systems in Japan - Slashdot
Apple has announced a sweeping set of changes to iOS in Japan that will allow alternative app marketplaces, third-party payment processing, and non...
Micron Says Memory Shortage Will 'Persist' Beyond 2026
Micron Says Memory Shortage Will
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Man Boards Heathrow Flight Without Passport or Ticket
Man Boards Heathrow Flight Without Passport or Ticket - Slashdot
Bruce66423 writes: A man boarded a flight at Heathrow without a ticket, boarding pass or passport.
How China Built Its 'Manhattan Project' To Rival the West in AI Chips
How China Built Its
Chinese scientists have built a working prototype of an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine in a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, a developme...
Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting
Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at...
Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US
Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US - Slashdot
U.S. video game hardware spending fell 27% year over year in November to $695 million, according to market analyst company Circana. "This is th...