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Grindr says users can now tap AI for better matches
[ad_1] Grindr Inc. has unveiled new features for its premium subscribers, hoping to leverage artificial intelligence to help users get better matches. The West Hollywood-based LGBTQ+ dating platform said Monday...
Lawsuit alleges Google chatbot was behind a user’s delusions and death
[ad_1] Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to take his own life, a lawsuit alleges.The man, Jonathan Gavalas, started using...
Commentary: In two new court cases, judges find that AI does not have human intelligence
[ad_1] It’s becoming clearer with every passing day that the only people making a serious effort to come to grips with the implications of artificial intelligence for society aren’t legislators,...
How our AI bots are ignoring their programming and giving hackers superpowers
[ad_1] Welcome to the age of AI hacking, in which the right prompts make amateurs into master hackers. A group of cybercriminals recently used off-the-shelf artificial intelligence chatbots to steal...
Startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo
[ad_1] In an expansion of its business of processing pharmaceuticals in Earth’s orbit, Varda Space Industries is renting a large El Segundo plant where toy manufacturer Mattel used to design...
Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
[ad_1] Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on.Cambridge, Mass., also had enough and tore...
Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’
[ad_1] Recently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example, hands...
Instagram to alert parents if their teens search for suicide or self-harm terms
[ad_1] Instagram, a social media platform popular among young people, said Thursday it will alert parents if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self harm-related terms.“Our goal is to...
Battle of the AI brands: What’s behind the bad blood between OpenAI and Anthropic
[ad_1] As more than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl, the battle for the future of artificial intelligence spilled out into a massive public arena.In a series of viral...
Influencers want to adopt the ‘analog lifestyle’ for 2026. Here’s how to join them
[ad_1] At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers at home and abroad proclaimed it the year of the “analog lifestyle,” a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech...
Billionaires Spielberg, Zuckerberg eyeing East Coast, stirring concerns about California’s wealth-tax proposal
[ad_1] California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved to New York and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is...
Commentary: My promise to you: AI didn’t write this column, and if it’s after my job, it’ll be over my dead body