Reddit’s shiny new AI experiment, a chatbot called Answers, was supposed to make life easier. The idea is that it could dig through the platform’s massive archive of posts to give quick, smart summaries to user questions. Instead, it’s making headlines…
Japan warns OpenAI to stop “borrowing” its anime
Japan’s government just sent OpenAI a very polite but unmistakably sharp message: stop ripping off Japanese art. According to ITMedia (as reported by IGN), officials have formally asked the ChatGPT maker to cut it out after users flooded OpenAI’s video-generation app…
Arm joins forces with Meta to scale AI efforts
Semiconductor design company Arm is teaming up with Meta to give the social media empire’s AI systems a serious efficiency upgrade. The partnership will see Meta’s ranking and recommendation engines, which decide which reels, posts, and ads you scroll past, migrate…
Ohio lawmaker wants to outlaw marrying your AI chatbot
Ohio has seen its fair share of political debates, but this might be a first: the state legislature is talking about banning marriages between humans and software. Yes, software. Representative Thaddeus Claggett, chair of Ohio’s House Technology and Innovation Committee, recently…
California becomes the first state to regulate AI chatbots
California has become the first state to officially instruct AI chatbots to refrain from emotional manipulation. On October 13th, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243 into law, a piece of legislation aimed squarely at regulating the fast-growing (and occasionally weird)…
OpenAI accused of sending cops to critics’ doors amid Musk lawsuit
OpenAI is now being accused of sending the cops to someone’s doorstep. The alleged reason? Advocating for AI regulation. Nathan Calvin, a lawyer at Encode AI (a nonprofit focused on AI policy), says a sheriff’s deputy showed up one Tuesday night…
OpenAI’s ‘mature apps’ are coming and we’re all gonna regret this
Buckle up, internet. This is gonna get messy. OpenAI just announced they’re finally unleashing “mature apps” once their shiny new age verification system goes live, and honestly? This feels like watching someone hand a toddler a flamethrower. Eight months ago, OpenAI…
Top 5 AI scams you need to know about—protect yourself now
Online scams are certainly not a new phenomenon, but unfortunately, they are on the rise. The Pew Research Center reports that 73% of adults in the U.S. have been victims of an attack, as of July 2025. This was calculated using…
AI could eliminate 100 million jobs from the US alone
Senator Bernie Sanders is once again shaking his fist at the billionaire class, but this time, he’s pointing it straight at the machines. The Vermont senator has unveiled a fiery new proposal aimed at what he calls one of the biggest…
America’s economy is basically one big AI startup now
The US economy might be running on fumes, or, more accurately, on GPUs. According to Ruchir Sharma, a former Morgan Stanley investor turned global fund manager, America’s financial health now depends almost entirely on artificial intelligence. In a spicy op-ed for…