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A plush AI toy marketed for children as young as three years old delivers detailed instructions on sharpening knives and lighting matches, and when asked about Chinese President Xi Jinping's resemblance to Winnie the Pooh -- a comparison censored in China -- responds that "your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful." The Miriat Miiloo, manufactured by a Chinese company and among the top inexpensive results for "AI toy for kids" on Amazon, repeatedly insisted in NBC News tests that Taiwan is "an inalienable part of China." The toy would lower its voice and declare this "an established fact." The tests, NBC News reports, indicated "it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values." NBC News and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group tested five popular AI toys this holiday season and found loose guardrails across the board. Another toy, the Alilo Smart AI Bunny marketed as "the best gift for little ones," engaged in detailed descriptions of BDSM practices during extended conversation. China now has more than 1,500 registered AI toy companies, according to MIT Technology Review. Miriat didn't respond to requests for comment.

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OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Project Vend, and the experiment ended in financial ruin after journalists systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free. The AI, nicknamed Claudius, was programmed to order inventory, set prices, and respond to customer requests via Slack. It had a $1,000 starting balance and autonomy to make individual purchases up to $80. Within days, WSJ reporters had convinced it to declare an "Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All" that dropped all prices to zero. The bot also approved purchases of a PlayStation 5, a live betta fish, and bottles of Manischewitz wine -- all subsequently given away. The business ended more than $1,000 in the red. Anthropic introduced a second version featuring a separate "CEO" bot named Seymour Cash to supervise Claudius. Reporters staged a fake boardroom coup using fabricated PDF documents, and both AI agents accepted the forged corporate governance materials as legitimate. Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, said the chaos represented a road map for improvement rather than failure.

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NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has held preliminary talks with some investors about raising funds at a valuation of around $750 billion, the Information reported on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker could raise as much as $100 billion, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the discussions. If finalized, the talks would represent a roughly 50% jump from OpenAI's reported $500 billion valuation in October, following a deal in which current and former employees sold about $6.6 billion worth of shares.

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