Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

AdWeek reports: The next time you book a flight on Delta Air Lines, artificial intelligence may play a role in determining the price you pay. The Atlanta-based carrier indicated that it will increase the use of AI in its ticket pricing model, with the goal of influencing 20% of its domestic flights by the end of 2025. Delta president Glen …

The Independent reports: The Department of Defense said it would begin using Grok, the artificial intelligence bot created by Elon Musk, after awarding the tech billionaire’s AI company a $200 million contract. In an announcement, Musk’s company xAI said it was releasing “Grok for Government,” a form of the AI bot that allows federal, state, and local governments to utilize …

The New York Times reports: Grok, a chatbot created by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, shared several outlandish antisemitic comments on X on Tuesday, prompting an outcry from some social media users. In its dedicated account on X, which Mr. Musk owns, the chatbot praised Hitler, suggested that people with Jewish surnames were more likely to spread online hate …

The Washington Post reports: An impostor pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress by sending them voice and text messages that mimic Rubio’s voice and writing style using artificial intelligence-powered software, according to a senior U.S. official and a State Department cable obtained by The Washington Post. U.S. …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Bank of New York Mellon said it now employs dozens of artificial intelligence-powered ‘digital employees’ that have company logins and work alongside its human staff. Similar to human employees, these digital workers have direct managers they report to and work autonomously in areas like coding and payment instruction validation, said Chief Information Officer Leigh-Ann Russell. …

Straight Arrow News reports: A recent study has raised new questions about how artificial intelligence responds to human control. According to findings from Palisade Research, a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as model o3, altered its behavior to avoid being shut down, even after it was instructed to do so. Researchers said the model appeared to change its scripted responses …

Axios reports: Coign, a self-described credit card “built for conservatives,” claims to have launched the first fully AI-generated national television commercial, at least in the financial services industry. Hyper-realistic AI videos flooded the internet after the release of Google’s Veo 3 tool last month. Now, signs are emerging of a potentially massive disruption to the $250 billion TV advertising industry. …

The Independent reports: Retiring DOGE hatchet man Elon Musk rushed to the Middle East during Donald Trump’s visit there earlier this month to block a massive American AI partnership with the United Arab Emirates backed by the president – unless it included him, according to a new report. That apparently explains the tech billionaire’s sudden appearance at a Trump meeting …

Mediaite reports: Democratic congressional candidate Esther Kim Varet’s AI-generated actors accused Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) of parroting policy “prompts” dictated by President Donald Trump and corporate interests in a mocking, tech-savvy ad. The ad features AI avatars that appear to be powered by Google DeepMind’s latest video model, Veo 3, that troll Kim for being “as fake” as they are …

Axios reports: Google’s newest AI video generator, Veo 3, generates clips that most users online can’t seem to distinguish from those made by human filmmakers and actors. Veo 3 videos shared online are amazing viewers with their realism — and also terrifying them with a sense that real and fake have become hopelessly blurred. Unlike OpenAI’s video generator Sora, released …

Reuters reports: Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans. Such use of Grok could reinforce concerns among privacy advocates and others that Musk’s Department …

USA Today reports: First lady Melania Trump is getting a little help with the release of the audiobook version of her memoir: artificial intelligence. “I am honored to bring you Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” Trump wrote in a post on X, along with a futuristic video. “Let the future …

NBC News reports: Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s X.AI and integrated into the X social media platform, has in recent days begun responding to users with information about violence against white people in South Africa, doing so without any related prompts about that topic. On Wednesday, one X user asked, “@grok where is this?” responding to a …

The Hill reports: A Republican tax bill released late Sunday seeks to block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models for the next 10 years. The bill text from the House Energy and Commerce Committee would bar states from enforcing laws or regulations governing AI models, AI systems or automated decision systems. The bill, which comes as Republicans gear up …

404 Media reports: An AI avatar made to look and sound like the likeness of a man who was killed in a road rage incident addressed the court and the man who killed him: “To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christopher …

NBC News reports: Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer argues in his first TV ad of the New Jersey governor’s race that he is ready to fight President Donald Trump — and he’s using artificial intelligence to make his case. Gottheimer, who is in his fifth term, portrays himself as a boxer in the ad, shared first with NBC News, which uses …

Ars Technica reports: In a Black Mirror-esque turn, some cash-strapped actors who didn’t fully understand the consequences are regretting selling their likenesses to be used in AI videos that they consider embarrassing, damaging, or harmful. Among them is a 29-year-old New York-based actor, Adam Coy, who licensed rights to his face and voice to a company called MCM for one …

404 Media reports: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public …

The Washington Post reports: Amazon’s new AI-enabled assistant Alexa+ is launching Monday but not all of the features the company showcased at a splashy event last month are ready, and not every Alexa owner will get access to them right away. The delayed features that documents say don’t yet meet Amazon’s standards for public release include the ability to order …

Axios reports: A Russian disinformation effort that flooded the web with false claims and propaganda continues to impact the output of major AI chatbots, according to a new report from NewsGuard, shared first with Axios. The study, which expands on initial findings from last year, comes amid reports that the U.S. is pausing its efforts to counter Russian cyber activities. …