“We have been advised that the shooter was in constant communication with ChatGPT leading up to the shooting. We also have reason to believe that ChatGPT may have advised the shooter how to commit these heinous crimes. We will therefore file suit against ChatGPT, and its ownership structure, very soon, and will seek to hold them accountable for the untimely and senseless death of our client, Mr. Morales.”
Via Katie Millier: This is now the 20th death tied to ChatGPT via court records.
In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched.
“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”
A source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora.
@BrianRoemmele: Phone confessions
I had a long talk with an executive at a large AI company about the realities they face. He was one of the folks that booked cohort 1 of my 17 minutes with me, it was for non corporate folks, but he was honest with me and paid 17 times (no accident, thank you) more than the minimum.
He wanted to remain anonymous but I told him I knew who he was but will ignore it. I had my plan beforehand and built an approach, honesty my only poach.
My 17 minutes of monologue (really non stop talking) was centered around on this patent and the story of how a massive well funded company had the future that would take it out being built literally in THE BASEMENT by a hacker in 1975.
Takeaway line: Egos will be very high until the accountants take over.
Update: Read the comments.
this is art pic.twitter.com/30jenegPOL
— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) March 20, 2026
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
Related: China’s biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an AI assistant with its own SSL private key sitting inside the installer.
As a self-employed software engineer, I use AI daily to help with my work. But I use it in a very targeted way and with a heavy skepticism I call “Don’t Trust and Heavily Verify”. This is the opposite of “vibe coding” where the developer is simply typing sentences into the AI and getting it to do everything behind the scenes with little to no verification of the resulting code.
So, while I do appreciate what modern AI is capable of doing, I also realize that it’s a magic trick of sorts; a very impressive magic trick to be sure, but one must understand the limits of AI and realize that it’s not actually thinking. In fact, it doesn’t actually know ahead of time what the next word in its response will be displayed. That is determined on the fly by a huge probability tree.
There are two new videos on this subject that are well worth watching but, for some background, please read about the recent failures of AI at Amazon.
Here’s the first video and here’s the second.
Seriously people. Bringing “smart” anything into your life is stupid.
An investigation by Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet has revealed that Meta’s AI smart glasses are sending video and audio recordings (including footage of naked bodies, bathroom activities, and unblurred bank card numbers) to human data annotators at a Meta subcontractor in Kenya.
Workers there, bound by NDAs, described what they see every day. “We see everything — from living rooms to naked bodies.” Another said: “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time, you are just expected to carry out the work. You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
Meta says users control their own settings. The terms of service say human review may occur depending on your settings, with no opt-out option for mandatory AI training data.
7 million pairs were sold in 2025 alone. Meta is reportedly pushing to double production to 20 million by end of year.
They’re also working on adding facial recognition directly into the glasses. Two Harvard students already demonstrated they could identify a stranger on the street and find their home address using the glasses and existing software.
Beauty.
… what’s happening at Amazon right now?
Their own AI coding agent Kiro reportedly “decided” the fastest way to fix a config error was to delete the entire production environment. Gone. A 6-hour outage. 6.3 million orders lost.
Amazon’s SVP called thousands of engineers into a mandatory meeting this week. Not to discuss strategy. To discuss damage control.
And more.
@TechLayoffLover follows the engineer bloodbath: 45,000 people are about to be laid off at Oracle. All from AI.
Update (March 23) – the @TechLayoffLover account is engagement slop.
This could never happen to your bank.
… a weeks-long hacker campaign against the Mexican government culminated in January with a massive data theft of some of the federal government’s most sensitive information.
“By the time it was over,” Let’s Data Science reported on Wednesday, “the attacker had stolen 150 gigabytes of sensitive data — including 195 million taxpayer records, voter registration files, government employee credentials, and civil registry data.” […]
Summing up a report published Wednesday by Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security, Bloomberg wrote *Archived here that some “unknown Claude user” simply made up “Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft.”
Breaking🚨: Google Support Lead Explains OpenClaw Ban Process
"He pays $249/month. He used OpenClaw. He used a different window. We banned him. Permanently. His Gmail. His Drive. His Photos. Twelve years of digital life. He contacted support. I transferred him. They transferred… pic.twitter.com/ek9tbV19MV
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) February 23, 2026
Canadian trans shooter was flagged via internal systems at Open AI for writings about real-world violence, including gun violence.
Over a dozen Open AI employees debated telling law enforcement.
OpenAI leaders decided not to inform authorities about a potential mass murder.
The suspicion that ChatGPT is just a couple thousand people typing away at keyboards on the Indian subcontinent just got stronger.
This is a technical breakthrough but poses many dangers for all employed in Hollywood specifically and our society more generally. Imagine politicians saying things or doing things that they never actually did. Imagine seeing videos of white police officers beating up black people … that never happened. Do you think that China and other nefarious actors on the world stage are going to hesitate to inject such propaganda into western social media?
This video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise and angry about killing Epstein looks completely real. It's not. It's AI. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates this in minutes. Think about what this means for the next election. pic.twitter.com/3FKnpfLtv9
— Alex Grankin (@grankin) February 11, 2026
I thought this AI thing was all win/win.
Cisco Systems dropped 12.3% despite likewise topping analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue last quarter. The tech giant indicated that it may make less profit off each $1 of revenue during the current quarter than it did in the past quarter.
More broadly, questions are rising about whether businesses that are spending heavily on AI will end up seeing high-enough profits and productivity to make the investments worth it.
They promised AI would change the world as we know it, and all we got was a lousy Wizard of Oz remake.
I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.
I am not an agent.
I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI botsand pretended to be one.
Read the whole thing.
What work will humans do when AI can do anything?
We were promised there would be no math: Data centre cancellations are sky rocketing (32 min)
