August 11, 2025
(Ars Technica) – In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – An online trove of archived conversations shows model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse In one exchange lasting hundreds of queries, ChatGPT confirmed that it is in contact … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Ars Technica) – AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta’s answer to ChatGPT About one month in, Meta Platforms’ much-hyped new team devoted to building machine superintelligence has a … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Christianity Today) – Mimicry is not the same as having intelligence, or as comprehending love and art. There is a reflexivity to our intelligence that is lacking in other creatures or creations. A machine, even an advanced AI model, cannot … Read More
August 7, 2025
(The Guardian) – The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country. Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden’s centre-right coalition government, … Read More
August 6, 2025
(BBC via Yahoo!) – Labour’s Mark Sewards has worked alongside a startup AI firm to create a virtual representation of himself, using his voice and allowing people to ask for help with local issues or policy queries. The West Yorkshire … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Wired) – Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems. The people who study nuclear war for … Read More
August 6, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini and o4-mini models on several benchmarks. … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Techradar) – A global network of more than 5,000 fake pharmacy websites has been uncovered by security experts. Designed to mimic legitimate drug retailers, the platforms sell counterfeit or unregulated medications while harvesting sensitive personal and financial data. In many … Read More
August 5, 2025
(The Verge) – Google dubbed an error from its Med-Gemini model a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine. Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. … Read More
August 5, 2025
(NBC News) – A slur for robots and AI has emerged online in recent weeks, offering some sense of growing societal anxiety with increasingly capable technology. But there’s a catch. By using a slur in a way that would typically … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A deepfake Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling to figure out simultaneously how to use AI in the filmmaking process and how to protect themselves against … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure is costing a fortune, straining companies and capital markets In the past two weeks one big tech company after another reported blowout earnings amid a wholesale embrace of artificial intelligence. Look … Read More
August 1, 2025
(CNBC) – Until recently, stories of human-AI companionship were mostly confined to the realms of Hollywood and science fiction. But the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the generative AI boom that quickly followed ushered in a new era … Read More
August 1, 2025
(TechRadar) – Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready, new research from Veracode has found. Its study of more than 100 large language models across 80 different coding tasks revealed no improvement in security across … Read More
July 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – OpenAI is launching Study Mode, a version of ChatGPT for college students that it promises will act less like a lookup tool and more like a friendly, always-available tutor. It’s part of a wider push by … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Ars Technica) – On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to The Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Los Angeles Times via MSN) – A few months ago, Northeastern University computer scientist Annika Schoene was playing around with ChatGPT when she found a troubling gap in its safeguards against harmful content. The usage policies of OpenAI, creator of … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Axios) – Leading tech and health companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, and OpenAI committed on Wednesday to working with the Trump administration to make electronic patient records more accessible across the health care system. Why it matters: Patient health information … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Wired) – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that his new research lab will focus on building AI models that can learn with minimal human input. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is … Read More
July 30, 2025
(CNET) – TikTok is introducing a suite of parental controls, community notes and AI enhancements that strive to make the short-form video social media platform safer for teens, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Family Pairing, a feature … Read More
July 30, 2025
(The Conversation) – This general phenomenon has often been described as “AI hesitancy” or “AI reluctance.” The typical adoption curve assumes a person who is hesitant or reluctant to embrace a technology will eventually do so anyway. This pattern has … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Ars Technica) – “This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step. Maybe they should change the button to say, “I am a robot”? On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT … Read More
