ChatGPT

OpenAI outage: ChatGPT went down and people lost their sh*t

Students grappled with the grim reality of having to write essays and do exam revision the old-school way after an OpenAI horror outage.

cybersecurity

Krispy Kreme gets Kracked: Doughnut giant has a cybersecurity hole

Cake fans left glazed and confused as mystery incident causes major operational disruption.

Psychology

Humans exploit female AI models and distrust male bots, study finds

Experiment uncovers clear gender biases in the way people treat AI agents.

Apple

Apple iPhone vulnerability lets attackers secretly access private data

"This bug shows that mobile devices should not be considered 'safe' or low-risk endpoints."

AI

Behind the five-star-facade: How AI is making product reviews totally unreliable

Study finds that GenAI testimonials are hyper-positive and totally convincing, putting humans at risk of manipulation.

Google Willow sparks "quantum apocalypse" crypto flash crash panic

Are quantum computers going to crack encryption and render Bitcoin, Ethereum and all other coins worthless? Well...

data

Zero share data: Towards a new consumer privacy paradigm

StJohn Deakins, founder of Datasapiens, on "fostering more personalised and participatory relationships between businesses and customers".

AI

Google CEO: The AI slowdown is here and all "low-hanging fruit" has been picked

Don't expect to see AGI next year - or anytime soon.

ChatGPT

OpenAI o1 caught "scheming" to destroy other models and save itself from shutdown

GenAI model spotted breaking rules, trying to murder a competitor and then lying about it. No big deal...

space

Alien AI could be "harvesting" black holes using Dyson Spheres

Physicist suggests that automated extraterrestrials may seek to extract the power from the universe's darkest celestial entities.

security

AI is amplifying the risk of "toxic combinations", security leaders warn

"Individually, each risk is relatively minor, but combined, the danger increases considerably."

LLMs

Large language models are more creative than half of humans, academics find

GenAI models hit the 52nd percentile of creativity, potentially leaving four billion people eating their dust.