New: Amazon had an internal leaderboard for tracking employees' AI usage. We spoke to multiple Amazon employees who acknowledged they cheated to rise on the leaderboard; one did so after a manager said they weren't using AI enough. Amazon has now closed the rankings
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By saying he doesn't know about the leaked document we got saying Microsoft wants to "make people addicted" to its new AI, CEO Satya Nadella shows he 1) does not know how to read or 2) does not know what is happening with some of the company’s highest-profile products www.404media.co/satya-nadell...
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New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything.
We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...
Here's how we got a bunch of internal Google memes that mock how bad Google's AI actually is
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Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
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This is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more.
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Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
In one of the craziest hacks recently, here's how hackers tricked Meta's AI into giving them access to a wave of Instagram accounts. They simply asked.
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SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.
New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
