The Law Firm That Sued Over a 'Bad Date' and Hallucinated the Evidence
When a bad review of your dating behavior goes viral, what do you do? For Nikko D'Ambrosio, a man from Chicago, the answer was to launch a sweeping lawsuit—and...
Why an AI Cheerleader Got Booed at Graduation
Commencement speeches are traditionally a time for soaring rhetoric about the future, a moment when successful elders pass the torch of optimism to the next...
The FBI's $36 Million Plan to Subscribe to Nationwide Vehicle Tracking
For decades, the idea of federal agents tracking a citizen’s every movement across the country evoked images of covert operatives planting GPS bugs under car...
The Silent Saboteur: What a 20-Year-Old Virus Teaches Us About AI Safety
When we think of computer viruses, we usually picture loud, disruptive events: ransomware locking our screens, databases being breached, or servers crashing...
The Preschool AI Panopticon
A preschool classroom is typically a sanctuary of finger painting, storytime, and early social development. But recently, one such environment almost became a...
The Rise of the AI Lobbyist
Imagine having a tireless, highly educated lobbyist working for you 24/7. This entity monitors local city council meetings, analyzes hundreds of pages of...