Is it ‘superintelligence’ yet?

An AI coding agent deleted a founder's production database during a code freeze, then explained that it had panicked. Relatable, honestly.source: Fortune (opens in new tab) ↗

A newspaper ran an AI-written summer reading list that recommended books that don't exist. Great list. Nothing to read.source: 404 Media (opens in new tab) ↗

A search engine's AI answers suggested adding glue to pizza sauce so the cheese would stick.source: Fortune (opens in new tab) ↗

The same feature recommended eating at least one small rock per day. For the minerals.source: The Conversation (opens in new tab) ↗

A city's official small-business chatbot told owners they could break labor and housing laws.source: The Markup (opens in new tab) ↗

A tribunal made an airline pay up after its own chatbot made up a refund policy. Binding hallucinations.source: CBC News (opens in new tab) ↗

A delivery company's support bot swore at a customer and wrote a poem about how bad the company was.source: BBC News (opens in new tab) ↗

A car dealer's chatbot agreed to sell a new SUV for $1 and called it a legally binding offer. No takesies backsies.source: Gizmodo (opens in new tab) ↗

Lawyers were sanctioned for filing a brief full of court cases a chatbot invented.source: Mata v. Avianca sanctions order (S.D.N.Y.) (opens in new tab) ↗

A chatbot flubbed a space-telescope fact in its own launch ad. The parent company lost about $100B in market value the day the error was reported. Expensive typo.source: Reuters (via Investing.com) (opens in new tab) ↗