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A French AI startup funded by Eric Schmidt and other billionaires debuted "Moshi Moshi," a multimodal voice bot intended to compete with OpenAI. During a live demonstration on France 24, the AI produced a bizarre hallucination about Joe Biden eating ice cream and "making out with a girl." This failed demo highlighted the ongoing issues with "hallucinations" and inappropriate content generation in large language models.
Israel-Cyprus Undersea Power Cable and Organ Trafficking
Israel and Cyprus have agreed to lay a 1,500-kilometer undersea cable to transmit 2,000 megawatts of electricity. Amidst this diplomatic cooperation, an Israeli citizen, Moshi Harel, was arrested in Cyprus on decade-old charges of organ trafficking in Kosovo. The hosts note the "coincidence" of these two stories appearing simultaneously in the news.
