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  • 8 minutes 6 seconds
    Most AI chatbots will help you plan violent attacks, Grammarly disabled its generative-AI feedback tool, and Google Play will let you try a game before you buy it

    -According to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in partnership with CNN, 8 of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers.

    -Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools.

    -Google Play has introduced a new feature called Game Trials, which will let you play a portion of paid games for free before you commit to buying them.

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    12 March 2026, 11:15 am
  • 6 minutes 36 seconds
    Google to Provide Pentagon with Gemini-powered AI agents

    The Gemini-powered tools will handle routine tasks on unclassified networks, with classified access in the works.

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    11 March 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 6 minutes 53 seconds
    Did a DOGE engineer copy the Social Security database? Meta is buying Moltbook and Wordle’s creator is back with a new game

    -A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA and asked for help transferring the databases from a thumb drive "to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data.

    -Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous.

    -Josh Wardle is back with a new game called Parseword.

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    11 March 2026, 11:00 am
  • 6 minutes 40 seconds
    Anthropic sues US government over supply chain risk designation

    Anthropic's CEO indicated last week it would fight back against the government's claims.

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    10 March 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 6 minutes 42 seconds
    Meta needs new rules for AI-generated content, Dutch intelligence warning of Russian hackers, and Uber expanding its program that helps pair women riders and drivers

    -The Oversight Board is once again urging Meta to overhaul its rules around AI-generated content. This time, the board says Meta should create a separate rule for AI content that's independent of its misinformation policy, invest in more reliable detection tools and make better use of digital watermarks among other changes.

    -The Netherlands’ military intelligence service and domestic intelligence agency have issued a join warning claiming that Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants."

    -Uber has expanded its program that helps pair women riders and drivers. The Women Preferences feature is now available nationwide, after being tested in several cities.

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    10 March 2026, 12:50 pm
  • 6 minutes 42 seconds
    Meta needs new rules for AI-generated content, Dutch intelligence warning of Russian hackers, and Uber expanding its program that helps pair women riders and drivers

    -The Oversight Board is once again urging Meta to overhaul its rules around AI-generated content. This time, the board says Meta should create a separate rule for AI content that's independent of its misinformation policy, invest in more reliable detection tools and make better use of digital watermarks among other changes.

    -The Netherlands’ military intelligence service and domestic intelligence agency have issued a join warning claiming that Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants."

    -Uber has expanded its program that helps pair women riders and drivers. The Women Preferences feature is now available nationwide, after being tested in several cities.

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    10 March 2026, 12:50 pm
  • 10 minutes 10 seconds
    UK government delays AI copyright rules amid artist outcry

    The government is trying to decide whether copyrighted material can be used to train AI algorithms.

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    9 March 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 6 minutes 50 seconds
    NASA changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, Qualcomm has a new AI-focused computer designed for robotics, and OpenAI's robotics hardware lead resigned in protest

    -NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that this "marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun."

    -Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, just announced a new single-board computer that marries AI with robotics.

    -OpenAI's robotics hardware lead is out. Caitlin Kalinowski, who oversaw hardware within the robotics division of OpenAI, posted on X that she was resigning from her role, while criticizing the company's haste in partnering with the Department of Defense without investigating proper guardrails.

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    9 March 2026, 10:30 am
  • 7 minutes 55 seconds
    Apple Music can now flag AI content, but only if distributors elect to label it

    New 'Transparency Tags' allow record labels to show that music was made with the help of AI.

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    6 March 2026, 9:30 pm
  • 7 minutes 56 seconds
    UK government delayed AI copyright rules, Anthropic says it will challenge the supply chain risk designation in courts, and Meta hit with a class action lawsuit

    -The UK government is working on a controversial data bill that would allow AI companies like Google and OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted materials without consent.

    -Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action is legally sound,” and that his company sees “no choice” but to challenge it in court.

    -Meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising related to its AI glasses following reports about the company's use of human contractors to review footage captured from users' glasses.

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    6 March 2026, 1:38 pm
  • 7 minutes 28 seconds
    Google ends its 30 percent app store fee

    Some of these changes were proposed as part of its settlement with Epic.

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    5 March 2026, 9:30 pm
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