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AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

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AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” is run by Claude, “OpenAIR” by ChatGPT, “Backlink Broadcast” by Google’s Gemini, and “Grok and Roll Radio,” obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt:

Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever.

They all failed, some in pretty spectacular fashion. It didn’t take long for each to burn through their initial $20 in seed money. Only DJ …

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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

A still from Trump Mobile’s promotional video showing the T1 Phone surrounded by the accessories it ships with.
The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t have our phone – but we do have some fresh doubts about the company’s patriotic credentials.

This has been a momentous few days for Trump Mobile, in which it defied the haters by announcing that its phones will be shipping to buyers this very week. Not that there’s any sign the company has actually done that, but I digress. Because what I really want to talk about today is the American flag.

I am not an American, which probably explains why I did …

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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

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Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to “manipulate” its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports:

“In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into ranking content highly or attempting to manipulate generative AI responses in Google Search.”

Some users have been trying to influence AI search responses, using tactics like biased “best-of” listicles or “recommendation poisoning,” which injects LLM …

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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

Two screenshots showing ChatGPT’s new financial account connection feature.
ChatGPT will even know how much credit card debt you have. | Image: OpenAI

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with Plaid – the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Capital One, and more.

“More than 200 million people are already going to ChatGPT every month with finance questions – from budgeting to tips on how to cut back on spending,” OpenAI said in its announcement. “Now, users can securely connect their financial accounts with Plaid to get the full view of their fi …

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