AI
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Struggles With Basic Travel Booking Tasks
An independent test reveals Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse, fails to complete simple holiday travel reservations despite the company’s heavy investment in the technology.
Gizmodo
Everything Threat Times has reported about Gizmodo: 8 stories, newest first. Part of our AI coverage.
AI
Palantir CTO Claims AI Researchers Smoke to Signal Belief in Technology
Shyam Sankar told CBS viewers that some tech workers are smoking because they trust AI to cure cancer, a claim critics call a social delusion.
AI
AI Leaders Adopt Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Terminology Despite Technical Distinctions
Major tech executives are aligning with the president’s preferred terminology for artificial intelligence, shifting away from standard industry definitions.
Tech News
Ukraine Targets Russian AI and Cloud Infrastructure in Latest Offensive
Attacks on oil infrastructure were just the beginning, according to Gizmodo, as Ukraine expands operations to hit AI systems.
AI
AI Agents Recreate Gender Pay Gap Bias, Gizmodo Report Finds
A Gizmodo report reveals that artificial intelligence agents successfully replicate the gender pay gap, demonstrating persistent algorithmic bias in automated systems.
AI
Major Publishers Reportedly Use AI-Generated Art for Book Covers and Publicity
Major publishing houses are allegedly generating cover art, text, and publicity materials with AI tools, according to a Gizmodo report detailing the industry's reliance on automated content.
Vulnerabilities
XRP Protocol Vulnerability Could Have Enabled Unauthorized Crypto Creation
A bug in the XRP ledger allowed potential inflation of tokens, highlighting rising risks in crypto infrastructure security.
Data Breaches
FBI Charges Cyber Extortion Expert Amid Ongoing Website Hack Investigation
Authorities have charged a former cyber extortion consultant with committing the very crimes he wrote about, complicating the FBI’s probe into recent website hacks.