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OpenAI Said GPT-2 Was Too Dangerous to Release. Should We Have Believed It?
A researcher's old frustration with OpenAI's 2019 safety announcement raises a question still worth asking: when an AI company warns the world about its own technology, who really benefits?
NEURA Robotics Is Building Robot Gyms Across Three Continents
The German robotics firm is opening specialised training centres where robots practise real-world tasks, filling a data gap that simulations alone cannot close.
Should you use AI for a task? A Harvard professor has a simple test
Bruce Schneier explains why letting AI write for you can be like hiring a personal trainer to do your push-ups.
Teens Are Over the AI Hype, and They're Not Shy About It
A growing share of young people use AI tools but genuinely dislike the technology. New polling and reporting suggest kids are far more skeptical of artificial intelligence than the industry expected.
Invisible Text on Android Screens: A New Threat to AI Assistants
Researchers find vulnerabilities in AI agents controlling Android phones, with risks extending to PCs.
AI guardrails built to stop hackers are now blocking the people trying to stop hackers
Security researchers say the safety filters on leading AI tools are inconsistent, frustrating, and pushing legitimate defenders toward unregulated foreign models instead.
Why AI Makes Individual Workers Faster But Leaves Whole Companies Behind
A researcher who studies how teams work says most organisations are fixing the wrong problem. Training each person to use AI better does almost nothing if the team itself still operates the old way.
Nvidia Reveals a 9.3% Stake in Nebius, and the Stock Jumps 7%
The chip giant is backing Europe's fastest-growing AI cloud company with real money. Here's what that means and why investors are paying attention.
Alexa Plus Can Now Run Your Washing Machine and Book Your Hotel
Amazon's upgraded voice assistant is learning to control dozens of new smart home devices and third-party services, using a new AI standard that lets brands plug in far more easily.
OpenAI locks Business and Enterprise users out of chat exports, but a free tool can help
Paying ChatGPT customers on higher tiers cannot download their own conversations through the usual settings. A developer built a workaround, though it may not last long.
Holiday Robotics raises $105 million to put its FRIDAY robot to work on factory floors
The Seoul-based startup says its wheeled humanoid can handle repetitive industrial tasks safely alongside people, and it has the funding to prove it.
Claude Gets a Voice Upgrade: Pick Your Model, Connect Your Apps
Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode so it can use smarter AI models and reach into Gmail, Slack and Notion, going further than OpenAI's voice feature currently does.
Patreon Cuts 93 Jobs and Points to AI as the Reason Why
The creator-subscription platform is laying off one in five staff. Its CEO says AI has changed how the company builds products, and that refusing to adapt would mean bankruptcy within three years.
Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.
ChatGPT Health Is Now Open to All U.S. Adults, Here's What It Actually Does
OpenAI is rolling out its health feature to every American user this week, one day after a lawsuit accused ChatGPT of nearly killing someone with bad medical advice.
Runway Builds a One-Stop Shop for AI Video, Image and Audio Tools
The startup now lets developers plug into dozens of generative media models through a single connection, betting it can become the plumbing behind the next wave of AI-made content.
AMD Takes On NVIDIA in Robotics With New Kria Module and X100 Chip
AMD says its new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processor and Kria system module can outperform NVIDIA's flagship robotics chips. A growing list of robot makers is already switching over.
British Gas owner says customers prefer chatbots as it cuts 1,300 call centre jobs
Centrica is axing 1,300 staff, with the boss claiming most people would rather deal with an AI chatbot than a human agent. Workers and unions see things differently.
Three Harvard Dropouts Just Raised $300 Million to Build the AI Chip That Rivals Keep Calling Impossible
Etched hit a $10.3 billion valuation in seven months by betting that specialised AI chips could beat general-purpose ones on speed and cost. Here is what that means for anyone who pays to run AI.
Ropedia's HOMIE: The Wearable Tech Changing How Robots Learn
Ropedia raises $22 million to scale its head-mounted device, HOMIE, which captures how humans move so robots can learn from it.
Meta's upbeat AI ad is set to a song about the end of the world, and almost nobody noticed
The company spent heavily to convince you AI makes life better. The soundtrack it chose tells a very different story.