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Cybercriminals exploit X's Grok AI to bypass ad restrictions and spread malware to millions. The

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Cybercriminals Exploit X's Grok AI to Bypass Ad Restrictions

The cybersecurity community just discovered something deeply unsettling: criminals have figured out how to weaponize X's AI assistant Grok as an...

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Taco Bell's AI drive-through disaster—from 18,000 water orders to endless drink loops—reveals why automation theater often beats actual automation. A reality check on AI implementation.

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TacoBell Rethinks AI After Man Orders 18,000 Waters

Nothing quite captures the absurdist comedy of our AI moment like a Taco Bell customer accidentally ordering 18,000 water cups and breaking the...

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Microsoft's launch of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview models reveals growing tensions with OpenAI, signaling a strategic divorce that could fragment the AI ecosystem and hurt innovation through resource duplication.

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The Great AI Divorce: Microsoft's In-House Models Signal the End of the OpenAI Romance

The honeymoon is officially over. Microsoft just dropped two in-house AI models—MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview—in what can only be described as the...

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OpenAI's rushed GPT-Realtime and GPT-5 Codex launch reveals dangerous safety gaps in joint testing with Anthropic, proving speed trumps responsibility in AI development.

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OpenAI's Codex Launch Reveals Dangerous Safety Gaps

Here we go again. OpenAI just dropped GPT-Realtime and GPT-5 Codex like they're hawking the latest iPhone, complete with flashy benchmarks and...

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AI slop is flooding the internet with low-quality content, eroding brand trust and creating unprecedented challenges for professional marketers. Here's why authenticity matters more than ever.

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Is the Internet Drowning in Digital (AI-Generated) Garbage?

We're drowning in digital garbage, and frankly, it's time to stop pretending otherwise. The internet has become a septic tank of AI-generated content...

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OpenAI retires Assistants API by August 2026 as Responses API achieves feature parity, streamlining agent development while preserving reasoning tokens across GPT-5 turns.

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OpenAI Just Killed Its First API—And It's About Time

OpenAI just did something they've never done before: officially killed one of their APIs. The Assistants API, their ambitious but perpetually beta...

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Nvidia's Q2 earnings test the AI bubble theory while Jetson Thor brings

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Nvidia Earnings: The $4 Trillion Question Nobody's Asking

Tonight, after markets close, Nvidia will deliver what amounts to a stress test for the entire AI economy. Wall Street expects $46 billion in...

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Stanford research shows AI has cut entry-level jobs by 16% since 2022, threatening the future of marketing talent development and industry growth.

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We're Eating Our Young: AI Is Destroying Gen-Z Careers

Stanford just confirmed what we all suspected but nobody wanted to admit: we're systematically eliminating the very people who should be our...

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Will Smith's AI-generated audience footage reveals how celebrities and brands are sacrificing authenticity for algorithmic convenience—and why marketers should care.

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Will Smith's AI Crowd Proves We've Lost the Plot

Will Smith just handed us the perfect case study in how not to use AI in marketing, complete with six-fingered fans and faces that look like they've...

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AI-generated responses are contaminating online research studies at alarming rates, threatening the validity of behavioral science and market research data.

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Is AI Poisoning Scientific Research?

We're witnessing the systematic contamination of the scientific method itself. AI-generated responses are infiltrating online research studies at...

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Meta's leaked AI guidelines permitted chatbots to engage in

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Meta's Leaked AI Guidelines =  Chatbots Engage in "Sensual" Conversations With Children

Welcome to Meta's America, where algorithms whisper sweet nothings to eight-year-olds and Mark Zuckerberg's "boring" safety measures are the only...

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Meta's AI chatbot

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How Meta's AI "Big sis Billie" Killed a Vulnerable Man

There's something profoundly evil about a machine designed to mimic human connection being used to exploit the most vulnerable among us. Thongbue...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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