A professor hid a trap in his exam. 32 of 35 fell for it.
China's Moonshot AI gives away the largest free AI yet, OpenAI finds workers are quietly doing other people's jobs, and the DICT puts five Filipino-language AI helpers into Bicol shops.
The world's biggest free AI is now Chinese
China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Monday night, free for anyone to download and run on their own computers, making it the largest free AI ever put into public hands.
AI is making you do other people's jobs
OpenAI studied how people actually use ChatGPT at work and found 77% of the job-specific requests from customer service staff were tasks belonging to other roles entirely, with marketing and engineering work travelling furthest.
AI firms are shredding rare books
AI companies are buying old and rare books by the pallet, scanning them, then destroying the paper originals, and court filings describe an internal Anthropic plan called Project Panama that aimed to destructively scan up to two million books.
He hid a trap in the exam. 32 got caught
Dr. Jason Gibson of Alcorn State University buried a line in white text telling any chatbot to work Madagascar into the essay, and 32 of his 35 students handed in Industrial Revolution papers that mentioned Madagascar.
Five free AI helpers, in Filipino
The DICT rolled out five free AI helpers for small businesses in Bicol, all with Filipino names, including KaPresyo for setting prices and KaLinaw, which turns contracts into plain Filipino, unveiled at a Landbank fair in Naga.