AI
2025 AI predictions: AGI, GenAI, pilot purgatory and a plateau of productivity
Find out what's will happen as AI hype turns to action over the next year.
Jasper Hamill
Quantum Computers
Quantum "magic" found in the Large Hadron Collider
"We created a new bridge between two exciting areas of physics...."
GenAI
AI "superstar effect" warning: LLMs pose risk of "narrowing global knowledge"
The conformist tastes of large language models are having a globally homogenising effect.
robots
Is this Google and Apptronik's vision of the robot takeover?
"Autonomous robots can replace one, some, or all of the human workers," writes robotics firm that's just announced a partnership with Google.
Cybercrime
Extortion for Xmas: The 35th anniversary of ransomware
Toasting the unlikely birth of an illicit industry that now turns over more than $1 billion each year.
AI
ChatGPT exposes the hidden trends in 2025 prediction reports
"By creating trend reports stuffed with catchy buzzwords, humans teach AI to prioritise these same repetitive ideas."
AI
OpenAI's apocalyptic worst-case existential risk scenarios
How could an AI model take over the world and destroy humanity? OpenAI found out...
AI
Anthropic observes AI faking its "alignment" to deceive humans in ominous world-first experiment
If relatively basic large language models (LLMs) are already giving us the run-around, what hope do we have against AGI superintelligence?
openai
OpenAI reveals how Sora was tricked into generating x-rated videos
New video-to-text model appears to be fond of making raunchy material in a fantasy, medical, or science fiction setting.
Elon Musk
"Please stop!": Elon Musk shadowbans "ugly" hashtags on X
Billionaire says "the system doesn't need" the hashtags first made famous by Twitter...
Drama
AI doomer explodes: AISafetyMemes goes nuclear over Beff Jezos doxxing drama
Cold war goes hot as long-standing conflict between champions of AI Safety and effective accelerationism (e/acc) intensifies.
Microsoft
Microsoft admits new Phi-4 small language model is "tedious"
Waffly model delights in giving "long and elaborate" answers that can be just a little bit dull.