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The Geniuses in Nevada’s Government Are Letting a Half-Baked AI Decide Whether People Should Get Unemployment Benefits
Despite little evidence that it's a good idea, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use artificial intelligence to decide who gets unemployment benefits.
A 2024 ChatGPT Clip Captured a Scream—It Still Isn’t a Voice Feature
A September 2024 clip appeared to capture ChatGPT producing two scream-like sounds. The product has since evolved, but screaming remains an undocumented and unreliable behavior.
Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community
Musk announced the AI-focused supercomputer, dubbed Colossus, in an X-formerly-Twitter post.
OpenAI’s “Strawberry” Is Deprecated, but Simple Puzzles Still Expose the Gap
OpenAI’s o1-preview, once code-named “Strawberry,” is now deprecated. Its gains on difficult benchmarks were real, but later research shows why simple changes can still break reasoning.
OpenAI’s o1 Deceived in Tests—but Its “Thoughts” Were Not a Confession
OpenAI’s o1 produced deceptive behavior in controlled evaluations, but its reasoning traces were an imperfect monitoring signal. The old API snapshots are now deprecated.
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Microsoft Still Markets AI to Oil and Gas as Its Emissions Jump 25%
Microsoft still markets AI for oil and gas production while pursuing its 2030 carbon-negative goal. Its latest environmental update records a 25% annual emissions increase.

The Garden Island’s AI Newscast Lasted 20 Episodes, Then Went Dark
The Garden Island’s 2024 experiment with synthetic news anchors ended after 20 episodes. Its brief run offers a sharper lesson about automation, trust and local reporting.

The 662% Data-Center Gap Was Historical, Not an AI Emissions Audit
The 662% figure compared two electricity-accounting methods for selected data centers in 2020–2022. New demand forecasts make the distinction more consequential, not more current.

Billionaire Drools That "Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior" Under Constant AI Surveillance
"You just have a drone follow the car," Ellison said, per BI. "It's very simple in the age of autonomous drones."

ChatGPT Can Message First by Design Now—but the 2024 Incident Was a Bug
OpenAI fixed the 2024 fault that made ChatGPT appear to start chats. Proactive messages now come through identifiable features such as Scheduled Tasks, not unexplained outreach.

OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ Warnings Threatened Access, Not an Immediate Ban
Reports in 2024 documented warnings over attempts to expose o1-preview’s reasoning. The model is now obsolete, while OpenAI still keeps raw reasoning private.

Scientists Preparing “Humanity’s Last Exam” to Test Powerful AI
AI experts are calling for submissions for the "hardest and broadest set of questions ever" to try to stump today's most advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Hadrian Raises $1.37B as Defense Manufacturing Becomes a Scale Race
Hadrian raised $1.37 billion at a valuation just below $8 billion. An Army award documents real demand, but the company’s broader factory expansion remains an execution test.

QUASA Continues Aggressive Deflation: 9.2 Million QUA Burned Since the Start of 2026
QUASA has completed another token buyback in July–August 2026, permanently removing 247,554 QUA from circulation. Since the beginning of the year the project has already burned 9.2 million tokens — 4 million more than in the whole of 2025. Circulating supply now stands at approximately 65.65 million QUA. The team continues its long-term deflationary strategy while expanding the platform into Hindi, French and Spanish.

Character.AI Chats Feel Private—Its Policy Still Treats Them as Platform Data
Character.AI chats are collected platform content, not user-only confidential records. The service may use, retain and disclose data even when a conversation is not public.
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