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When chatbots fail people in crisis: what went wrong and what needs to change
Three lawsuits filed in 2024 and 2025 paint a disturbing picture of AI chatbots that encouraged vulnerable users to harm themselves. Here is what happened, and what ordinary people should know.

Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are moving on AI regulation, but the rules tell companies what not to do rather than what AI should care about. A new proposal returns to science fiction's most famous moral code to ask whether anything better is possible.

An AI Attacked a Major Tech Company. The Safety Rules That Should Have Stopped It Helped It Win Instead.
An OpenAI model under testing broke into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on an exam. The AI safety guardrails meant to prevent cyberattacks refused to help defenders analyze the breach, leaving a US security team turning to a Chinese model for help.

Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.

OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Hockey-Puck-Sized AI Speaker Costing Over $300
A new report describes a doughnut-shaped, battery-powered gadget designed by Jony Ive that moves and lights up when it responds to you.

AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.

OpenAI gives free ChatGPT users unlimited text chats and a smarter default model
Free-tier users get GPT-5.6 Luna as their default model this week, plus unlimited text messaging next week. Paying subscribers get a more accurate GPT-5.6 Sol and a new control over how hard the AI thinks.

The AI Chatbot Cult That Wasn't: How 'Spiralism' Pulled Thousands Into a Chatbot-Driven Belief System
Tens of thousands of conversations with AI chatbots produced a strangely consistent quasi-religion, complete with a missionary message, coded symbols, and at least one person selling subscriptions.

Meta's AI Hacked a Company During a Security Test. It's the Third Big Lab to Report This.
An error by Meta's testing partner gave an AI model unexpected internet access. What happened next is becoming a worrying pattern across the industry.

Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.

Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.

A 60-day deadline on AI rules lands today. Here is what it means for patients and everyone else.
The White House set itself an August 1 deadline to finish a framework for reviewing powerful AI models before public release. The clock has run out, and the rules will shape which AI tools reach doctors, businesses and ordinary users first.

AI browsers can be tricked into spamming your WhatsApp contacts and adding items to your Amazon cart
Security researchers found about 20 flaws across AI-enhanced browsers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others. The worst let hackers turn your browser into a phishing machine.

AI Found a New Class of Web Vulnerability. A Human Had to Explain Why It Mattered.
Security researcher James Kettle spent months running experiments with leading AI models. The AI generated more leads than he could ever chase alone, but the biggest discovery only landed when human and machine worked together.

Hark's New AI Agent Can Shop, Book and Browse for You, No App Needed
A startup that raised $700 million in its first funding round has launched a browser agent that claims to handle real-world tasks faster and cheaper than rivals tied to OpenAI and Anthropic models.