Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
KQED

San Francisco’s Most Affordable Art Supply Store Is Moving

For the first time in its 50-year history, the creative reuse center SCRAP will have a permanent home. The arts nonprofit, which operates out of a San Francisco Unified School District warehouse in ...
The Mirror

Over 100 MPs call to scrap 'dangerous' EHRC code that would segregate trans people

Over 100 MPs have called for the updated Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) code, which could make segregation of Trans+ people the norm, to be disapproved. 104 MPs across parties, including ...
Observer

Meet Luna, an A.I. Agent Managing a Brick-and-Mortar Store, and the Humans Behind Her

Founders Axel Backlund (left) and Lukas Petersson are using retail not for profit but as a stress test for autonomous A.I. managers. Courtesy Andon Labs “We are quite sure that A.I. will have the ...
Politico Europe

France repeals colonial-era ‘Code Noir’

French lawmakers on Thursday voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, a colonial-era law that classified enslaved people as property, in a landmark reckoning with one of the darkest pillars of ...
Android Authority

Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT were asked to run a radio station, and they slowly lost the plot

Andon Labs created an AI-powered radio experiment in which four different AI models autonomously ran their own stations, handled listeners, tracked finances, searched the web, and tried to make money.
CNET

6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect

The experiment was simple. A company gave four AI models $20 each and a fistful of instructions, then left them to their own devices. Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a long-running ...
Gizmodo

An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went

Goooooooood morning, blog readers! You’re listening to the KGIZ morning zoo with your hosts, AI and The Bot. Andon Labs, an AI safety and research group, put AI models in the host and producer chairs ...
The Verge

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

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just ...
PBS

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm. San Francisco-based ...
Fast Company

The AI running this Swedish cafe won’t stop buying toilet paper and gloves

A new cafe in Stockholm just opened its doors and, though there’s a human behind the counter making drinks and light bites, an AI manager is calling the shots. Andon Cafe is the latest autonomous ...