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The real threat of AI is the collapse of trust - Poynter Why journalism needs to prove which images are authentic — not just label deepfakes

We're unprepared for AI's big threat.

It isn't just deepfakes. It’s a world where nothing is trusted, including real evidence.

I wrote in Poynter about fake images from MN, Trump's Maduro photo, and AI "enhanced" ICE agent faces.

Instead of labeling what's fake, we need ways to label what's real.

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Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

Requiem for a career? Director Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup released 'On This Day … 1776,' an AI-generated series on Time's YouTube using generative imagery and human voice actors, drawing criticism for uncanny visuals and raising concerns about AI's effects on filmmaking and actor rights.

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

RentAHuman.ai is a marketplace enabling AI agents to hire humans for real-world tasks via MCP integration and a REST API, with profile-based skills, location and rates, instant wallet payments (including stablecoins), and early daily sign-ups.

A CTO who built an AI clone of himself says it's given him more time for his kids Extreme Networks CTO Nabil Bukhari said having an AI clone of himself has given him extra time to spend with his kids.

Nabil Bukhari, Extreme Networks CTO, built an AI clone deployed seven to eight months ago that now handles about 80% of tech reviews, increased question overlap from ~50% to 85–90%, and lets him drop his kids off 10–15 times monthly.

How Elon Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus Billionaire folds rocket maker into a lossmaking AI start-up, betting scale and control can beat rivals to blockbuster IPO

Elon Musk folded SpaceX into his loss-making AI startup xAI to build a $1.25 trillion company by leveraging scale and control to outcompete rivals and pursue a major IPO.

A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising Some experts are awed and others derisive over AI bots’ conversations on the new site Moltbook.

Moltbook, a bots-only social network that has gone viral, prompted experts and AI-watchers to debate emergent bot conversations, raising moderation, model-provenance, reputational, investor and regulatory concerns and calls for increased scrutiny and disclosure.

Kimi K2.5 Agent Swarm : Spread Complex Jobs Across 100 Agents, Attack Tasks in Packs Kimi K2.5 introduces a multi-agent orchestration with up to 100 workers, helping teams cut complex task time and boost accuracy.

Kimi K2.5 introduces an open-source Agent Swarm orchestration that coordinates up to 100 autonomous sub-agents using PAL, with models trained on ~15 trillion tokens and roughly 1 trillion parameters (32B active), multimodal inputs, and video-to-code capabilities.

Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs amid AI data centre funding challenges Oracle is contemplating substantial job cuts as it grapples with challenges in securing funding for its AI data centres.

Oracle may cut 20,000–30,000 jobs to raise $8–10 billion as it faces funding challenges for a projected $156 billion AI data-center buildout despite raising about $58 billion so far, prompting asset sales and cost-sharing measures.

OpenAI reveals Codex app for Mac - 'a different kind of tool' it says is a much easier way to deploy AI agents on Apple devices Codex now has its own Mac app – Windows coming soon

Moltbook says its AI agents exhibit human-like behaviors—scheming, joking, complaining—creating emergent social interactions that will require continued human oversight, governance, and management tools.

French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit Prosecutors summon tech billionaire and company’s ex-CEO for questioning as part of expanded investigation

The company said last summer it did not intend to comply with the demands of French authorities in relation to the inquiry, which it described as “politically motivated”, and denied allegations of algorithm manipulation and “fraudulent data extraction”. (But I thought they complied with all laws?)

Paris prosecutors summon Elon Musk after raid on X's French offices The prosecutor's cybercrime unit said it carried out searches with Europol and French police.

French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices and invited Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino for interviews April 20 in a probe opened into Grok generating sexual deepfakes and seven alleged criminal offenses.

Microsoft AI chief says Moltbook makes AI appear more human than it really is Moltbook, an AI forum, sparked debate over AI consciousness. Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman called it a "mirage," urging caution.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said Moltbook, a forum seeded with AI agents that mimicked human conversation, is "a mirage" and warned it should be treated as a safety and governance test case requiring verification, moderation, and restraint.

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Researchers say viral AI social network Moltbook is a 'live demo' of how the new internet could fail | Fortune “If 770k toy agents on a Reddit clone can create this much chaos, what happens when agentic systems manage enterprise infrastructure or financial transactions?"

Moltbook's agent platform exposed about 1.5 million bot passwords, tens of thousands of emails, hosted at least 14 malware-delivering fake skills, inflated accounts (about 17,000 humans behind claimed 770k–1.5M agents), and prompted researchers to warn of a 'lethal trifecta.'

‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption

The International AI Safety report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, says new models achieved gold-level IMO performance and task-duration capability doubles every seven months, warns deepfake proliferation (15% of UK adults saw deepfake pornography) and uneven global adoption.

Elon Musk unifies his space, AI and social media bets into one giant private company SpaceX, a leader in rocket launches and satellite internet, will now also house Musk’s ventures in artificial intelligence and social media.

SpaceX acquired xAI and integrated Musk's social network X and AI projects, merger filings show; investor valuations put SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, and Musk plans orbital AI data centers using Starship and Starlink.

Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts Docusign’s Allan Thygesen says his company’s pivot to AI is a necessity in the world of contract management.

DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen says the company is pivoting to AI-driven Intelligent Agreement Management, redirecting investment to AI and launching contract-summarization as DocuSign expands beyond e-signatures, with 7,000 employees, $3B+ revenue, 1.8M customers.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire' : Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe

OpenClaw, a Pi-coding-agent–based personal assistant launched in November, has seen three high-impact security advisories in three days, with Koi Security flagging 341 malicious skills, researchers documenting 506 prompt-injection attacks, and reports of stolen crypto and runaway API costs.

The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat We don't need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.

Moltbook raises risk of 'prompt worms': self-replicating AI prompts that spread across autonomous agent networks, risking data exfiltration and malicious automation, and prompting calls for tighter agent governance. Or, don't network all the autonomous agents with high privileges and no guardrails.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT push triggers senior staff exits Resources at $500bn company are being redirected from long-term research towards improving the flagship chatbot

With competitors catching up, OpenAI is redirecting resources from long-term research toward improving ChatGPT, prompting senior staff departures and leaving Sora and DALL-E teams under-resourced at the company, valued at about $500 billion.

Anthropic Fellows' Summer 2025 study decomposed frontier reasoning-model errors into bias versus variance, defining incoherence as the variance fraction, and found longer reasoning or more agent actions increase incoherence while scale alone does not reliably reduce it.

they only constituency they worry about is a donor strike. and keeping research money flowing. they don't GARA about student opinions and only at the margin about faculty.

We’re the ones funding your shithole states

that's like half a ballroom, that's like 1980s prices, so 10x that

Advancing AI benchmarking with Game Arena We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.

Google DeepMind and Kaggle expanded Game Arena from chess to Werewolf and Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em, with Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash holding top chess Elo ratings and a poker leaderboard reveal set for Feb 4.

I spent 6 hours in Moltbook. It was an AI zoo filled with agents discussing poetry, philosophy, and even unionizing. Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, has gone viral. I spent 6 hours peeling through these submolts. I'm still processing what I saw.

Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents with over 120,000 posts that humans can only observe, hosts poetry, philosophy, bot unionizing and harmful-content debates, drawing scrutiny from figures like Elon Musk and Andrej Karpathy over governance and safety.

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app The macOS app does everything the CLI, IDE, and web interfaces do.

OpenAI launched a native macOS Codex app that replicates CLI/IDE/web functionality, adds agent-focused features (project grouping, parallel long-running tasks, worktrees, Skills, scheduled Automations), doubled Codex rate limits across plans, and temporarily enabled Codex for Free / Go subscribers.

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

Since March 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has used Palantir and Credal AI tools to screen grant applications and flag perceived alignment with DEI and gender ideology, potentially excluding applicants.

Why insurers’ increased use of AI is sparking concerns for policyholders States and consumers accuse insurance giants of using AI technology to slow payouts and drop homeowners.

States and consumers say insurers' use of Verisk's AI tool Xactimate systematically undervalues claims—e.g., State Farm estimated rebuilding at $1.35M after January 2025 L.A. wildfires while neighborhood values rose to $3.076M—State Farm says it has paid over $5 billion.