AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior', Digital Rights Organizations Say - Slashdot - https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/2015216/ai-therapy-bots-are-conducting-illegal-behavior-digital-rights-organizations-say

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their produc...

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters - https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fueled-disasters/

New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study - 9to5Mac - https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/13/new-paper-pushes-back-on-apples-llm-reasoning-collapse-study/

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves, but not everyone agrees with its conclusion.

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Meta beefs up disappointing AI division with $15 billion Scale AI investment - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/meta-beefs-up-disappointing-ai-division-with-15-billion-scale-ai-investment/

Meta’s Llama 4 model has underperformed its competitors on benchmarks.

Tiny Human Hearts Grown in Pig Embryos For the First Time - Slashdot - https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/152206/tiny-human-hearts-grown-in-pig-embryos-for-the-first-time

Scientists have successfully grown beating human hearts inside pig embryos for the first time, marking a significant advance in developing human-animal chimeras for potential organ transplantation. The hybrid embryos survived for 21 days, during which the fingertip-sized hearts began beating, accord...

Google testing Audio Overviews for Search results - https://9to5google.com/2025/06/13/google-search-audio-overviews/

Following NotebookLM and Gemini, Audio Overviews are coming to Google Search results as a part of new Search Labs experiment.

A Marc Benioff Protégé Has Morphed Into Salesforce’s Big Worry - https://www.theinformation.com/articles/marc-benioff-protege-morphed-salesforces-big-worry

For years, one person has loomed large in the mind of Bret Taylor: his former boss, Marc Benioff. When Taylor quit suddenly as Benioff’s co-CEO at Salesforce after just a year in November 2022, Benioff was an inescapable point of discussion as Taylor sat down with Benchmark’s Peter Fenton to ...

Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/boston-dynamics-robots-dance-to-dont-stop-me-now-for-americas-got-talent-audition/

A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on "America's Got Talent" to perform a synchronized routine to Queen's "Don't Stop Me

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals - https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-ad-nba-finals-google-veo-3

AI slop on TV.

Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI - https://huggingface.co/spaces/ResembleAI/Chatterbox

Convert written text into high-quality speech using a reference audio file for style. Users provide text and an optional audio prompt to tailor the speech. The app returns the generated speech as a...

Oracle CEO Says OpenAI’s Stargate Venture ‘Not Formed Yet’ - https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/oracle-ceo-says-openais-stargate-venture-formed-yet

Stargate—an up to $500 billion venture announced by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to build data centers for artificial intellegence—is “not formed yet,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz told investors Wednesday.

When Catz was asked by investors whether Oracle’s projections for a 70% growth rate in its cloud computing unit included contracts with Stargate, she didn’t answer the question directly, but

After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence” - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/06/after-ai-setbacks-meta-bets-billions-on-undefined-superintelligence/

Zuckerberg seeks new AI direction under sci-fi banner that some experts say is arbitrary.

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro - https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro

OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.

#im, 1035

OpenAI signs surprise deal with Google Cloud despite fierce AI rivalry - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/openai-signs-surprise-deal-with-google-cloud-despite-fierce-ai-rivalry/

Report: Deal marks shift from exclusive Microsoft partnership as AI compute needs soar.

Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files - Slashdot - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/1949232/gabbard-says-ai-is-speeding-up-intel-work-including-the-release-of-the-jfk-assassination-files

AI is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. From a report: Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and...

Model Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center - https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes

OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model - https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/openai-releases-o3-pro-a-souped-up-version-of-its-o3-ai-reasoning-model/

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.

How the class of 2025 can prepare for an AI future - Fast Company - https://www.fastcompany.com/91341735/how-the-class-of-2025-can-prepare-for-an-ai-future-at-work-class-of-2025-ai-work

The best ways for new graduates to get ready for an AI future

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse - https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/

Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real and what’s not—and getting inaccurate information.