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OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed. In some cases, the chatbot even
Deel officially agrees to be served legal papers in Rippling’s lawsuit HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them
Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be
Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a U.K.-based investor with no obvious ties to the
Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100 Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the
Deliveroo mulls 2.7bn takeover bid from US rival DoorDash Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/deliveroo-doordash-buyout-takeover-bid-offer/
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built an impressive resume early on — joining the
Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths globally in 2022, with projections showing a rise to 29.9 million new cases by 2040. Craif,
4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’ 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of
Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space. Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people