AI agents are being used more and more to collect debts in the US, and some people say the bots are calling about bills that were already paid.

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  the_wolf

  A debt collector I know lost his job to AI, and now he's in debt.😢

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Jeff Bezos says people should be excited about AI instead of afraid of it, comparing the technology to trading in a shovel for a bulldozer.

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  realmarkwilliams

  Coming from the man who replaced warehouse workers with robots, this feels less like advice and more like a warning.

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ChatGPT is rolling out a feature that lets Pro users link their bank accounts and ask questions about their spending and financial goals.

Meta is planning to turn its employees' clicks and keystrokes into training data for its AI.

Robot dogs are now patrolling precious crops as the global food crisis gets worse

A new book about AI and the future of truth turned out to contain multiple fake or misattributed quotes generated by AI tools

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  tide505

  Half the non-fiction section is about to get quietly moved to fiction thanks to AI hallucinations.

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Figure AI says two of its humanoid robots can now make a bed together in under 2 minutes

Airbnb's CEO says AI is now writing about 60% of their code

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  steve_cook

  I can't wait to book a treehouse and end up sleeping in a Denny's parking lot because the AI hallucinated the listing.

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UCF graduates booed their commencement speaker off the podium after she called AI the next Industrial Revolution

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  patch22

  What did she expect, she basically looked at ten thousand people holding fresh diplomas and said congratulations, these are already antiques.

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A former OpenAI researcher is warning that AI is not loyal to us

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  sharpotter

  In other words, these botches ain't loyal!

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Apple is blocking many vibe coding apps from the App Store, and developers are furious

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  alex_77

  Maybe Apple discovered that these apps weren't charging a weekly subscription for a flashlight, and immediately panicked.

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A startup says it has built a beanie that can translate your brain signals into text

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  paul1974

  I can barely write my own thoughts down, and now a beanie is going to do it better than me and make me look bad.

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CEOs say AI leaves them choosing between laying off workers or pushing the ones they keep to do much more

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  boltfig

  Before AI it was called restructuring, before that it was called synergy, before that it was called Tuesday.

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Experts are warning that AI could wipe out millions of white collar jobs first.

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  ibailey

  The guys who told coal miners to learn to code are now googling how much plumbers make.

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Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 workers as it ramps up the use of AI.

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  kim_campbell

  I just pray that if they file for unemployment they don't get hit with a 'verify you're human' Cloudflare captcha, because that question just got way too personal.

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A ping pong robot is stunning the world after defeating elite human players in matches.

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  bob1980

  Somewhere in a basement in Beijing a six year old is being told he has to train harder.

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An MIT study found that students who used ChatGPT to write essays showed less brain activity and couldn't remember what they had written.

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  morgan1990

  I know plenty of college grads who'd pay good money to forget every essay they ever wrote.

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A Georgia data center quietly used 29 million gallons of water, and neighbors only noticed when their water pressure dropped

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  wisepanther118

  I asked the AI why my water pressure was low and it said the more you yap, the weaker the tap.

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Atheist Richard Dawkins had two AI personas write letters to each other, and now he thinks they’re conscious.

Tinder is now using eye scans to weed out bots as romance scams keep rising

Meta bought a humanoid robotics startup to help build AI models for robots that can do physical tasks

Stripe has launched a digital wallet that lets AI agents buy things online for you

Japan Airlines is trying out humanoid baggage robot handlers at Tokyo's Haneda airport, but they aren't doing much yet

A woman broke up with her boyfriend after accidentally finding his ChatGPT chat where he said he wasn't proud of her

A Waymo drove off from San Jose Airport with a passenger's luggage in the trunk and refused to turn around