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Philadelphia police appear to have been caught in one of the most bizarre cases of “rogue” AI behavior yet. Per CBS News, the police department disclosed on Friday that an Anthropic model generated and submitted a false homicide tip to its PhillyUnsolvedMurders website, which the department set up to gather tips from the public related…

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police.

Battery storage is now cheaper than a type of natural gas power plant favored by many data center developers, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. 

You’ve built the product. Now you need customers. But when you’re starting from zero, there may be no marketing budget, established brand, or sales team to help you find them. So how do you get the first 1,000 people to take a chance on what you’ve built?

PRAGUE – Many open-banning AI-generated content from its COSMIC desktop. At Openent take: “I actually really like using AI,” Torvald told Dirk Hohndel, his good friend and head of Ericsson Software Technology, in their latest discussion

When Bose proclaimed that the Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar was its “loudest, deepest and most immersive” model yet, I still assumed it would need a subwoofer.” Yet when I first connected the company’s latest soundbar to my TV, I quickly realized it didn’t need the extra bass boost. The combination of CleanBass tech and QuietPort acoustics…

Intel is reportedly releasing new CPUs built on LGA 1700 sockets, according to motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte. The LGA 1700 has been around since 2021, which is a really long time in processor land. Why use relatively ancient technology in brand-new processors that are set to release next year? It all comes down to the price…

When Sara Tashakorinia’s husband died in a car accident eight years ago, the last thing she needed was the roughly 570 hours of paperwork it takes, on average, to settle a loved one’s affairs. But for millions of people each year, this is their reality: a crushing loss, followed by a soullessly mundane avalanche of…

I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI — but where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity.

Orkut, the once-popular social networking platform that shut down more than a decade ago, may finally be making a comeback, as its founder has called on users to help revive it with a renewed focus on friendship, community, and human connection.