Eye on AI 👁️2/5

Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Adobe agree to make Barnsley the UK’s first AI ‘tech town’

Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award winner: ‘There is empirical evidence of AI acting against our instructions’

Exposed Moltbook database let anyone take control of any AI agent on the site

Excerpt: O’Reilly said that he reached out to Moltbook’s creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. “He’s like, ‘I’m just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.’”

Me again: Being a mostly analog guy, much of this article is beyond my spectroscopic ken, but I grok this part real plain: Dude found a ginormous AI-created security hole, and told Moltbook’s alleged creator, who cared so little he said he’d simply feel the info back into the AI. This is the tech of the future, ‘created’ by people feeding AI, which actually means created by AI, which actually means it’s dried dogpoop.

Musk’s SpaceX applies to launch one million satellites into Earth’s orbit to power AI

Mamdani shuts down NYC’s disastrous AI chatbot

Web portal leaves kids’ chats with AI toy open to anyone with Gmail account

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security ‘dumpster fire’

Next-generation AI ‘swarms’ will invade social media by mimicking human behavior and harassing real users, researchers warn

HHS is using AI tools from Palantir to target ‘DEI’ and ‘gender ideology’ in grants

AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist

‘No one verified the evidence’: Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail

Shift Up’s CEO says they need AI because of the Chinese Boogeyman

Massive AI chat app leaked millions of users private conversations

US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

Silicon Valley’s favorite new AI agent has serious security flaws

Anthropic knew the public would be disgusted by how it was destroying physical books, secret documents reveal

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2/5/2025

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