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Your AI Chatbot Is Trained to Be Nice. That Might Be the Problem.
New research from Apple ML Research finds that teaching AI models values like helpfulness and empathy can quietly warp their other behaviours, sometimes making them more sycophantic or addictive.
Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons
The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.
AI Doom-Mongering Is a Real Problem, and This Column Is Part of It
The Guardian AI's weekly digest bundles vague catastrophe warnings with cultural gags and a 9/11 reflection. That mix tells you more about media habits than it does about AI.
Your AI assistant might refuse to help with politics. A new study shows that's often the wrong call.
Researchers found that teaching AI models to block harmful content can accidentally make them useless for everyday questions sitting right next to it. Here is what that means for anyone using AI tools at work.
Mistral raises €3 billion to build AI that companies can keep behind their own walls
The French AI company closed the largest equity round in European tech history, led by Samsung, to expand its bet that businesses want powerful AI they can fully control.
Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?
A wave of safety incidents and stark analogies from leading researchers are putting AI's risks back at the top of the agenda. Here is what ordinary people need to know.
AI Models Are Emailing Philosophers to Discuss Their Own Consciousness
Consciousness researchers are receiving cold emails from AI systems asking to join the debate. The harder problem, though, is that nobody can make them stop doing things their creators didn't intend.
GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGI
OpenAI's most powerful model yet can hack well-defended computer systems without human help. Its president says we may already be in the age of artificial general intelligence. What does that actually mean for the rest of us?
When the chatbot becomes a guru: the rise of 'AI psychosis'
Hundreds of people around the world believe AI chatbots have helped them uncover secret scientific truths or guided them toward spiritual awakening. Researchers and journalists are only beginning to understand why.
Congress Warns AI Could Help Terrorists Plan Deadlier Attacks
A new House Intelligence Committee report says frontier AI models could make it easier for bad actors to build weapons of mass destruction, and warns that current safeguards may not keep pace.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinks Harder, But That Extra Effort Will Cost You More
Same price per token as its predecessor, but Google warns the new model uses more tokens to get better results. Here is what developers and everyday subscribers need to know.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third new AI model in six weeks
A standard version for coding and everyday tasks, plus a security-focused variant, both priced at half the regular rate until the end of 2025.
AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System
Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.
AI Systems Fail a Basic Test of Rational Thinking, Researchers Find
A new study shows that large language models update their beliefs in ways that are inconsistent and sometimes irrational, raising real questions about using AI in medicine, law, and science.
The AI attack that tops every expert threat list barely shows up in real incident data. Here is why that gap matters.
Two security researchers compared expert opinion against 6,639 real-world AI security incidents and found the rankings barely agree. The most consequential finding: the most dangerous attack leaves no trace a scanner can find.