How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host a get together in SF and pull this up on a 100 inch TV?”  The author of that post on X was referring to an online intelligence dashboard following…

Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot’s guidelines and reach underlying AI engine

Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it’s prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to g…

Police find ChatGPT link in rising reports of harmful satanic rituals

UK experts say ChatGPT is fuelling a sustained rise in organised ritual abuse disclosures, with survivors using the tool as a gateway to support, prompting formal police training across forces.
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Nvidia-backed Nscale raises $2BN, appoints Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg to board

Nscale, the Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure startup, has raised $2bn in a Series C funding round, valuing it at $14.6bn, and appointed Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board. The round, which N…

How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility
How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry s…

OpenAI’s massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can’t reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity

Financing terms and swinging OpenAI capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center. Yet, Meta could take the yet-to-be-expanded space.
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AI chatbots that are fit only for adults are still appearing in kids toys

A new report warns that some AI-powered toys for children may use chatbot systems designed for adults.
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Anthropic research says AI can mass expose of anonymous internet accounts

New research suggests AI models can analyze online posts and link anonymous accounts to real identities.
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