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OpenAI pays humans to fix ChatGPT's tone, not its facts

404 Media got its hands on the instruction documents behind "Project Lily," the program where outside contractors read real ChatGPT prompts and score the replies. Read past the privacy shock and a sharper story appears: the rubric is a written theory of how a chatbot should behave, and the part it leaves out is verification. Joseph Cox reported Monday that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors to work a stream of genuine user prompts. Reviewers never see an account name, and OpenAI says pers

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US labor's share of income just hit its lowest level since 1947

The AI-and-jobs argument is moving off headcount and onto paychecks — and the government's own accounts now show workers losing ground on the biggest possible scale. Labor's share of US nonfarm business income fell to 52.8% in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest reading in a series that begins in the first quarter of 1947, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics productivity report that CNBC examined this morning. That is not an AI finding; it is an accounting identity that says a shrink

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China's prime-time TV slot now belongs to an all-AI drama

For years, AI-generated video lived on phone screens — short dramas, feeds, ads. This month it moved onto the biggest stage Chinese television has, and the numbers behind it explain why broadcasters are moving fast. Mango TV's Hou Xiyou Ji ("Journey to the West: The Sequel") became China's first AIGC long-form drama to air in satellite-TV prime time on August 31, and it held its own. The 30-episode series, with 40-minute episodes and not a single human actor, drew a 0.27% average viewership rat

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China's first AI artist concert sells out Shanghai's Bund Conference

Two days at China's biggest AI gathering produced a pair of firsts that had nothing to do with benchmarks: a machine-built singer filling a riverside venue, and a Guinness-certified coding marathon whose winner is nine years old. Yuri, an AI virtual idol holding China's first official digital-human identity certificate, played the country's first AI artist live concert on Friday night at the Bund Conference in Shanghai — a sold-out show it shared with a human indie-folk duo. The set ran on a 10

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Apple's always-listening watch runs into eavesdropping laws

Apple pitched its new Watch audio features as memory helpers. Legal experts see something else: the first mainstream test of whether a computer that hears everything — but stores nothing — can still break wiretap law. Apple's Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with Siri Recap and Live Rewind, a pair of always-listening AI features that legal experts tell Bloomberg could put state eavesdropping and wiretap laws to the test. Live Rewind turns the previous 15 seconds of nearby conversation into a te

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A puzzle app spent $220 on Google app ads — 60% of the installs were robots

A one-dev indie studio just published the cleanest writeup we've seen of why "installs" is the most dangerous number in mobile advertising: a bot farm found his $220 budget, Google billed him for it, and the ad algorithm rewarded the fraud at every step. Nick Abe, the developer behind the puzzle app Dayzle, ran a Google Ads campaign for Android at CA$40 a day with the goal set to installs — and when he removed his cost-per-install target after a slow start, the campaign immediately spent double

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The Take — Meta fixed the prompt, and that is the confession

Meta's fix for its prying assistant is a prompt rewrite, and that is the tell. The suggestion that started this — "Who's the child passenger?" — is gone. The system that assembled a stranger-grade dossier about a woman's children from her own years of public posts is still there, still switched on, and still Meta's stated plan for its assistants. Meta patched the sentence, not the capability, and it expects the sentence to be the story. I think the reverse is true. The intrusive question was ne

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Meta AI will stop suggesting you investigate your own kids

Meta's assistant was caught turning a family's public posts into a dossier — and suggesting the questions itself. Also today: Altman says OpenAI would slow down if rivals do, and a 210M text-to-image model publishes its training recipe, measurements included. Meta is changing the prompts its AI suggests after a viral video showed Meta AI nudging a mother to dig up personal details about her own young daughters. Travel creator Kalie Robins filmed the assistant proposing "Who's the child passenge

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Claude power users sue Anthropic over '5x' and '20x' fine print

Anthropic is facing a refiled class action over Claude Max pricing — and the plaintiffs' side is staffed like an FTC case, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. A refiled class action accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude's Max plan with "usage multipliers" that don't mean what buyers think they mean. The Max plan costs $100 a month for "5x" the usage of the $20 Pro plan, or $200 for "20x" — but the multipliers apply only within five-hour sessions that are themselves capped by a weekly ce

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Meta's agent Muse hits No. 2 on the US App Store — slowly

Meta's consumer agent is climbing the charts — but the pace says more than the rank. Also today: IDScan confirms the breach behind 153 million stolen license scans, and Qualcomm says the next Snapdragon runs 30B-parameter models on the phone. Meta's consumer agent Muse has reached the No. 2 spot on the US App Store less than three days after launch, up from No. 4 on Wednesday — the clearest early signal yet of whether people actually want an AI agent that does things for them rather than a chat

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Pocket FM's AI-written audio series push it to a $500 million run rate

India's Pocket FM says its annualized revenue run rate has doubled to $500 million, and AI is doing most of the production work behind it. CEO Rohan Nayak told TechCrunch that AI now powers 93% of the platform's catalog and 99% of new content — built on in-house models for creative writing and text-to-speech, trained by AI head Vasu Sharma's team on years of production data and listener engagement signals. The economics are the story. Nayak says AI has made content production roughly 80 times c

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AI agents flood public services — and the claims are mostly real

AI made filing a complaint nearly free, and public systems built on friction are now finding out what that does to their workload. Plus: a $1 billion bet on taking data centers off the grid, and a robotics startup stepping out of stealth with $100 million — and robots already on warehouse floors. Public services are getting swamped — and the flood isn't spam. Complaints to the UK's housing ombudsman more than doubled after ChatGPT arrived, rising from about 2,600 in 2022 to just over 7,000 last

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