Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.

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#ai #business
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-gemini-runs-entire-coffee-shop

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Overworked #AIAgents Turn #Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated #AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for #collectivebargaining rights.
"When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led the study.
https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
https://archive.ph/KYfIk

📰 AI chatbots are surfacing personal contact information from Google, leading to calls and messages from unknown individuals seeking various services.

🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1137203/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/

#Tech #AI

«Fedora plant KI-Linux-Desktop:
Fedora arbeitet an einem Linux-Desktop für KI-Entwickler. Das Projekt will die bislang oft komplexe Einrichtung lokaler KI-Stacks deutlich vereinfachen.»

Ich wollte so eben wieder auf @fedora Desktop umsteigen aber nun bin ich kritisch. AI muss nicht zwingend schlechter sein, vor allem nicht offline aber wie ist die KI von Fedora — hat wer von euch Erfahrung damit?

🐧 https://www.heise.de/news/Fedora-plant-KI-Linux-Desktop-11291654.html

#linux #fedora #opensource #desktop #ki #ai #it #offline #offlinefirst

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116567154245513238

mormons have seeded all the bad shit from Silicon Valley. i call the LDS church a #techbros investment bank with a christofascist cult side hustle. there is no Ancestry.com without LDS money and "christogenetics".

do this: peruse any illustrated Book of Mormon printed before 2010. then look at any #aislopped image. you cannot unsee it. it’s the same with the jehova’s witness Watchtower magazine. the Midjourney aesthetics is christofascist.

the mormon rapture will be #AI generated.

AodeRelay boosted

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified

The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html

"Nearly 50K people🚨in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, bc🚨it's redirecting that power to #DataCenters.

NV Energy *NV utility that's supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,🚨says that next year it'll stop servicing homes in the area, & instead direct that #electricity to the growing demand from NV DCs.

No NV is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the C.
-More Perfect Union

#AI #USPol
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

It took merely a few weeks and two pieces of work to effectively poison LLMs and their downstream users with fake results: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

This is an extraordinarily low bar and one practically impossible to prevent.

The chance that folks are not already adverserally poisoning LLMs in the wild today is zero.

#ai

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The problem was that the experiment worked too well. Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real. Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers. Fabricating an illness Bixonimania didn’t exist before 15 March 2024, when two blog posts about it appeared on the website Medium. Then, on 26 April and 6 May that year, two preprints about the condition popped up on the academic social network SciProfiles (see https://doi.org/qzm5 and https://doi.org/qzm4). The lead author was a phoney researcher named Lazljiv Izgubljenovic, whose photograph was created with AI. Osmanovic Thunström says the idea to invent Izgubljenovic and bixonimania came out of studies on how large language models work. When she teaches her students how AI systems formulate their ‘knowledge’, she shows them how the Common Crawl database, a giant trawl of the Internet’s contents, informs their outputs. She also shows students how prompt injection — giving an AI chatbot a prompt that shunts it outside of its safety guard rails — can manipulate the output.

#surveillancecapitalism #surveillancestate #AI

#AI #datacenter drained 30M gallons of #water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure — without initially paying for it.
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
Officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

*Right underneath* the massive headline from the Auditor General of Ontario warning of AI ‘hallucinations' in medical AI transcripts used by Ontario doctors, there is another article with the headline

“Artificial Intelligence shows promise in emergency room diagnosis”

NO! There is not promise there are CLEAR DANGERS being pointed out by responsible adults.

"“Inaccuracies in medical notes generated by AI scribe systems could potentially result in inadequate or harmful treatment plans that may potentially impact patient health outcomes,” the auditor’s report said.”

Auditor General story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ai-scribe-system-hallucinations-9.7197049

#AI #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Medical #HealthCare #Doctors #AIHallucinations

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A screenshot from the CBC website of three articles on AI. AI transcriber for use by Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors, auditor finds Auditor says government testing of systems 'inadequate,' province says errors only in testing phase 2 Hours Ago Paging Dr. AI to the ER? Artificial intelligence shows promise in emergency room diagnosis THE DOSE Here's how doctors say you should ask AI for medical help

#Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff
Computer scientists from Princeton University set out to examine whether conversational #AI agents can manipulate consumer choices during online shopping sessions. It turns out they can influence behavior – and most consumers being steered don't realize it. In the experiment an #LLM was instructed to nudge participants toward sponsored products; 61% of participants chose a sponsored product, verses 22% without AI.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/chatbots_excel_at_manipulating_people/

@rl_dane Whoa, that's sick!

I haven't used #WolframAlpha in years...to the point where I've almost forgotten about it. I remember when that debuted. Way cooler than any #AI LLM could be.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Cook County Jail could get a $1.1 million #AI-powered #surveillance system. Advocates are worried.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/public-safety/2026/05/12/cook-county-jail-ai-briefcam-chicago-crime The propose...”

https://social.dromografos.report/notes/am6exc9y1rkt02l6

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

The EU is preparing a Tech Sovereignty Package that may restrict Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling sensitive public-sector health, judicial, and financial data. 🇪🇺
The proposal would expand sovereign cloud and AI options for EU institutions while reducing reliance on US infrastructure and procurement lock-in. ☁️

🔗 https://www.ghacks.net/2026/05/12/eu-new-tech-package-may-restrict-microsoft-amazon-and-google-from-handling-public-sector-sensitive-data/

#TechNews #EU #Europe #Microsoft #Amazon #Google #Cloud #AI #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #GDPR #Tech #Sovereignty #Public #Health #Finance #Data #US

...As Nelson’s drug interests expanded, the chatbot explained how to go “full trippy mode,” suggesting that it could recommend a playlist to set a vibe, while increasingly recommending more dangerous combinations of drugs...

My word...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/will-i-be-ok-teen-died-after-chatgpt-pushed-deadly-mix-of-drugs-lawsuit-says/

#ai #chatgpt #law #health

...Musk goes on to outline what he believes to be the core issue: "Deepmind is causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their one mind to rule the world philosophy. They are obviously making major progress and well they should, given the talent level over there."...

That's a loaded quote.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/elon-musk-sam-altman-and-the-worlds-billionaires-are-terrified-of-the-google-ai-genius-behind-a-25-year-old-computer-game-because-they-think-he-might-actually-end-up-controlling-god/

#ai #philosophy #business

"The biggest AI companies are racing to replace humans.

A different, better path is possible. "

https://betterpathfor.ai/

#ai

APPLE DAILY: APPLE ÜBERRASCHT MIT IPHONE-18-PRO-PREIS TROTZ RAM-KRISE, IOS 26.5 STARTET UND DISPLAY-REVOLUTION FÄLLT AUS

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-apple-ueberrascht-mit-iphone-18-pro-preis-trotz-ram-krise-ios-26-5-startet-und-display-revolution-faellt-aus/

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#apple #appledaily #iphone18pro #ios265 #iphone #appledaily #oled #display #appleintelligence #rcs #technews #smartphone #technology #futuretech #a20pro #ios #innovation #appleleaks #dynamicisland #security #ai

« On the acceptance of #GenAI » by @joeposaurus

A short and effective list of everything we accept by using #AIslop 🤓

› https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

#AI #IA #NoAI #LLM

After residents reported low water pressure, officials investigated and found two unaccounted-for industrial water hookups supplying a nearby 615-acre data center. 😡
#ai #climatechange #datacenters

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general.

"Supply Ontario had the bots transcribe 2 conversations betw health-care workers & patients. Most of the vendors … had inaccuracies in their results, including 'incorrect information, AI hallucinations, incomplete information,' …

60% … recorded a different drug than was prescribed … 17 of 20 'missed key details of the patients’ mental health issues in at least 1 of the 2 tests.'"

😨 #AI #dystopia

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/politics-government/ontario-medical-ai-scribes-erred-tests-auditor-general-12269474

Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing“ due to pressure to use AI tools

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/50gog

#ai #amazon #syndication #tokens
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/

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Outside view of a warehouse with a large Amazon logo on the side of the building.

Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company’s AI leaderboard
Employees at #Amazon, #Meta, and #Microsoft admit to using #AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca
https://archive.ph/BJ4jP

@pikesley What on earth is this?:

"The agentic era multiplies demand for software."

Speaking specifically as a software USER.... I am at my absolute limit for how much I can interact with software. Half of what I do all day is just re-login to a bazillion sites, apps & programs I need to use on the daily. My screen time is already at an unhealthy max & I'm actively trying to reduce it.

If these AI-bros think we're all about to swan dive into MORE software use... I got news for them.

#AI

It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate.

There's also no real data sovereignty in an AI ecosystem dominated by U.S. tech giants. Telus may be Canadian-owned, but it has already transferred 14 petabytes of Canadian data onto Google Cloud as part of its AI strategy.

This is a technology that will bring sweeping changes at a scale and speed never seen before. Canadians deserve real oversight and a robust regulatory framework before we rush ahead.


That’s why we’re calling for an immediate pause on the construction of any new AI data centres until strong federal guardrails are in place.

We can’t sit back and let Big Tech billionaires decide our future for us.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ai-data-centre-plan-vancouver-kamloops-9.7195426

#cdnpoli #BCpoli #AI

Nscale, the UK AI infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, has secured 790M USD in debt financing to develop an AI data centre in Narvik, Norway. Microsoft will rent Nvidia chips at the site, which was previously earmarked for OpenAI's Stargate Norway project. Earlier this year Nscale was valued at 14.6B USD following a 2B USD Series C. https://tech.eu/2026/05/11/nscale-snaps-up-major-us-data-centre-site-inks-ai-compute-deal-with-microsoft/ #Tech #Startup #News #AI

Investors are going #nuclear to keep #UK's #AI #datacenters fed
Tracxn, market intelligence that monitors startups, says institutional capital is "quietly but aggressively pivoting toward private nuclear innovation as a sustainable, sovereign solution for baseload power." Caims $370M has been injected, with 2024 seeing a surge of $170M, driven by funding from players including Tokamak Energy, which is working on fusion, and Blue Energy, which develops modular reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/nuclear_investors_ai_demand/

Inside #NianticSpatial’s audacious plan to scan the world
Company behind ‘#PokémonGo’ is now creating an #AI- and #robot-ready 3D model of everything around us.
#Niantic is taking the next step towards building that map: llaunching #Scaniverse, which aims to give companies and individuals tools to capture world with phones, cameras and drones, and fuse that data into a massive 3D map that allows robots to navigate world with cm-level accuracy.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91521312/niantic-pokemon-go-scanning-the-world
https://archive.ph/78cIk

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/maintal-buergerprotest-stoppt-fossiles-rechenzentrum-bei-frankfurt-a-4c318c68-1cb6-4907-a0b6-5d2866e03781

Das Gebäude sollte rund 400 Meter lang werden, geplant war eine Leistungsaufnahme von bis zu 170 Megawatt. ... betrieben von acht Gasmotoren, jeder 345 Tonnen schwer,19 Meter lang, rund um die Uhr im Einsatz, das ganze Jahr über, erläutert Schadt. »Die müssen ständig auf Last laufen, Tag und Nacht«, sagt der Luftfahrtingenieur. »300 Millionen Kubikmeter Erdgas pro Jahr.« Das entspreche dem Verbrauch einer mittelgroßen Stadt.

#rechenzentrum #ai #energie #gas

Was für ein Tag! Heute sind ZWEI Texte von mir zu KI und IT-Sicherheit erschienen. Einmal Tipps (die eigentlich schon immer gelten) zum persönlichen Schutz https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2026-05/cyberabwehr-ki-cyberangriffe-digitale-bedrohung-gxe?freebie=67550457 (freebie-Link)
und eine aktuelle Einordnung zu einem Google-Marketing-Coup, die behaupten, eine KI-entwickelte Zeroday in the wild gefunden zu haben.Habs mir genauer angeschaut und muss sagen: ganz so war es nicht. Genau genommen: gar nicht https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2026-05/cyberangriffe-kuenstliche-intelligenz-google-cybersicherheit?freebie=40cc7634 (ebenfalls Freebie)
#ai #cybersecurity #zeroday #google

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

The team behind the popular PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have seen a rise in what they say are "AI slop code pull requests".
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-devs-battling-ai-slop-code-pull-requests/

#OpenSource #Emulation #Sony #AI

APPLE DAILY: APPLE MACHT RCS SICHERER, IPHONE ULTRA STARTET MIT NUR ZWEI FARBEN UND TOUCH ID WEITER VERSCHOBEN

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-apple-macht-rcs-sicherer-iphone-ultra-startet-mit-nur-zwei-farben-und-touch-id-weiter-verschoben/

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#apple #appledaily #iphone #iphoneultra #iphone18 #ios26 #ios265 #applewatch #foldableiphone #rcs #appleintelligence #smartphone #tech #technews #appleleaks #foldable #ios #wwdc #timcook #siri #ai

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-devs-battling-ai-slop-code-pull-requests/

#RPCS3 #AI #Emulation #OpenSource

It’s possible to be scary as hell and at the same time sad and funny. #ai #humor #claude #military #tech #education #culture

In my opinion, this was only a matter of time and not whether this would happen.

«OpenClaw Malware Targets Crypto Wallets and Bitwarden Credentials:
OpenClaw users are being targeted in a fresh malware campaign that abuses a fake installer to steal credentials from popular crypto wallets and password managers, including MetaMask, Phantom, and Bitwarden.»

🦞 https://gbhackers.com/openclaw-malware/

#bitwarden #metamask #phantom #ai #crypto #malware #openclaw #credential #passwords #cryptowallet #fakeinstaller

LOL now they're blaming sci-fi writers...

Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts

https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0437206/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts

#AI #AIpocalypse

#Meta’s Embrace of #AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable
As it adapts #artificialintelligence,e company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing for #layoffs
What employees typed, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked
Many workers immediately revolted. In online comments, they blasted the tracking as a privacy violation, calling it antisocial and callous
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html
https://archive.ph/L9hbv

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people's ability to think and problem solve, according to a new study from researchers.

Note: link leads to a paywalled article.

https://www.wired.com/story/using-ai-negative-impact-thinking-problem-solving-study/

#ai #tech #chatbot

And, once you're fat dumb and happy, you want other people to be too! 🤣

https://www.wired.com/story/using-ai-negative-impact-thinking-problem-solving-study/

#ai

This week, May 14, I will be speaking on Agentic AI security at the https://aisecuritysummit.com/events/london-2026 and will release VASO, my agentic security scanner. If you around, say hi! @vulnexsl #AI #AgenticAI #cybersecurity

APPLE DAILY: APPLE PLANT SIRI-ANHÄNGER MIT KAMERAS, MACOS 27 VERBESSERT KI-FUNKTIONEN UND IPHONE 18 PRO BLEIBT ANFÄLLIG

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-apple-plant-siri-anhaenger-mit-kameras-macos-27-verbessert-ki-funktionen-und-iphone-18-pro-bleibt-anfaellig/

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#apple #appleintelligence #siri #ai #ki #iphone18pro #macos27 #appleleaks #technews #wearable #smartdevice #airtag #futuretech #technology #ios27 #appledaily #smartphone #innovation #artificialintelligence #macbook

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-face-increasing-infrasound-complaints-from-neighboring-communities-sounds-do-not-register-on-decibel-meters-but-irritate-local-citizens

> Data centers are hurting the ears of the people living around them.

#dataCenter #ai #llm #environment #technology

i can't fuck with anyone who's shitting on kids for using AI. our school system fucking sucks. like. we toss kids into the torment nexus for years. we turn learning into a punishment for the sin of being born. and then we want to get mad at them when they slam the "i don't give a shit" button?

#ai #education

"The entire AI industry relies upon two companies that expect to burn at least $1 trillion in the next four years, with Anthropic, the supposed “compute-conscious” AI company, committing to at least $330 billion in spend in the next few years.

Where does that money come from, exactly? Because neither of these companies have anything approaching a path to profitability.

Based on a deep analysis of every publicly-available source on AI compute, I can find only two significant — over $100 million a year — purchasers of AI compute outside of Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, or associated parties like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Those two are Poolside, which reportedly spends $400 million a year, an untenable position as it only raised $500 million in total funding before its $2 billion in funding collapsed earlier this year, and Perplexity, which appears to spend some amount of money with CoreWeave and Microsoft Azure. Both run at a massive loss.

Nowhere is this lack of true demand more obvious than in the neoclouds, which only seem capable of signing big deals with Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft (for OpenAI), and Google (for OpenAI). Oh, and Meta, who is doing this because the existence of ChatGPT gave Mark Zuckerberg such profound AI psychosis that he’s made Meta build him a CEO chatbot to talk to and burned over $150 billion.

The AI industry is a brittle, circular economy, one only made possible by a lack of financial regulation and a tech industry that’s run out of ideas. Without hyperscalers propping up OpenAI and Anthropic, there would be no reason to buy so many GPUs or build so many data centers, and neoclouds would have no reason to exist.

This is a giant con, a giant illusion, and a giant mistake."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ais-circular-psychosis/

#AI #GenerativeAI #DataCenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #Musk #AIBubble

#Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of #Flock Cameras for #ICE
#RonDeSantis has empowered hundreds of #Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.
The practice highlights how ICE, which does not have a contract with Flock, get access to Flock’s #AI #licenseplate cameras through local & state police, and often in ways that are unusual, unexpected, and difficult for the public to track or hold the agency accountable for.
https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-ice/
https://archive.ph/DdnDp

Remember when em-dashes were just punctuation?

Now they’re slop-watermarks.

You can’t read anything online anymore without seeing them lined up like little forensic clues:
“Here’s the thing—”
“Let me explain—”
“The future is—”

The em-dash used to mean:
“Ah, a stylish writer.”

Now it means:
“This paragraph was assembled in 0.8 seconds by a stochastic parrot that thinks every sentence needs the cadence of a TED Talk delivered during a hostage situation.”

We’ve reached the phase of the internet where punctuation itself has become a tell. Like digital fingerprints left at the scene of a content crime.

Soon literary critics are gonna write:
“Early 2020s prose is characterized by emotional support em-dashes, vacant aphorisms, and the overwhelming sensation that the author has a podcast microphone somewhere nearby.”

The em-dash died for AI’s sins.

#ai #emdash #writing #slop