An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots
Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots
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OpenAI just released GPT-4.5 and says it is its biggest and best chat model yet
OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model. The company claims it is its
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How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass
They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small black fragments found inside the
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Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut
Amazon Web Services today announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip. While the chip has only rudimentary computing capability, the
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The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday,
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Job titles of the future: Pharmaceutical-grade mushroom grower
Studies have indicated that psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and MDMA, have swift-acting and enduring antidepressant effects. Though the US
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Welcome to robot city
Tourists to Odense, Denmark, come for the city’s rich history and culture: It’s where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king,
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Technology shapes relationships. Relationships shape technology.
Greetings from a cold winter day. As I write this letter, we are in the early stages of President Donald
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The AI Hype Index: Falling in love with chatbots, understanding babies, and the Pentagon’s “kill list”
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary
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