The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive thanks to AI

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AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they’ve done. The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their systems, while other AI labs are finding the same uncomfortable discoveries. It’s caused many in the field to call for better, more robust accident investigators , with the ultimate aim of stopping such actions happening in the first place by understanding how they’ve happened.

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you). With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It. The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t address toxic masculinity in the sport.

This AI-generated video got an Arizona manslaughter sentence tossed, likely a first for a U.S. court. An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was imposed. In a decision released Wednesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded Gabriel Paul Horcasitas must be resentenced in the 2021 shooting death of Christopher Pelkey because the AI video wasn’t reliable . The court found the video crossed the line, saying it didn’t reflect actual events and presented statements made in the footage.

A 100-Year-Old Steelmaker’s Quotes Took 3 Days. Now They Take Under 2 Hours Thanks to This Tech. Emanate says one steelmaker reduced quote response time from days to hours while raising the share of customer requests that received a response.