Existential Risk
OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
AI
AI
Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Security
"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data
Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.
Developer
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
AGI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
OpenAI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
OpenAI
ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
GenAI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
OpenAI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
Meta
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
Existential Risk
IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant
For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...
AI Safety
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.