by AI News | Feb 27, 2026 | AI News
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has been forced to rein in an AI-powered customer service assistant after users reported it had been rambling about its mother. The AI assistant, who goes by Olive, offers round the clock help with everything from tracking...
by AI News | Feb 27, 2026 | AI News
Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards 2 hours ago Kali HaysTechnology reporter Reuters Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence (AI) technology is used. The...
by AI News | Feb 27, 2026 | AI News
[[“value”:” “Ed” was supposed to be an AI-powered “educational friend” for Los Angeles schoolkids, telling them how to do their homework, what time school let out and even where to go to college. But the flopped $6 million chatbot – which looked like...
by AI News | Feb 27, 2026 | AI News
Instagram investigating AI profiles ‘fetishising’ disabled people 5 hours ago Jacob EvansBBC News Reuters Instagram’s parent company, Meta, is investigating AI-generated social media accounts that sexualise disabled people appearing on its platform....
by AI News | Feb 27, 2026 | AI News
From hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from someone’s real voice, has long been a cultural trope. Fast-food giant Burger King is now taking that voice one step further,...
by AI News | Feb 26, 2026 | AI News
Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities. The Department of Defense had...
