Ever used or thought of using artificial intelligence (AI) for financial advice? Is it a good idea? Anyone with the internet, even on their phone, can access AI. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are… Read more: We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for financial advice: what we got was practical, but with big blind spots

Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collide Families with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year,… Read more: AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global

Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account details You are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With… Read more: ‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos

It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest. We also got the first teaser for Ahsoka S2; the… Read more: VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event

All is not well in the fourth estate. On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering… Read more: Publisher of Axios Boasts That He Uses AI to “Read” Everything For Him Now, Instead of Using His Brain

White House officials may expand voluntary AI safety reviews to powerful open models, raising new questions about security, competition, and compliance. The post White House AI Safety Reviews Could Expand to Open Models appeared first… Read more: White House AI Safety Reviews Could Expand to Open Models

WhatsApp is testing an on-device Scam Alert feature that flags suspicious messages while keeping analysis local and preserving end-to-end encryption. The post WhatsApp Begins Limited Test of AI Scam Alerts for Unknown Senders appeared first… Read more: WhatsApp Begins Limited Test of AI Scam Alerts for Unknown Senders

The use of AI chatbots has invaded almost every profession. From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms generating nonsensical reports to teachers using AI to revise likely AI-generated essays from students,… Read more: Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos—the Progress… Read more: Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social colonies. A massive new analysis suggests that genetics alone can’t explain it—and the real secret may lie in… Read more: A 60-year-old theory about ants, bees and wasps may be wrong

A widely available food-preservation chemical is emerging as a disturbing factor in rising UK suicide deaths, particularly among younger people and men. Researchers say the scale may be underestimated and are calling for urgent restrictions… Read more: Common food preservative linked to rising suicide deaths among young people

Fossils collected in Osaka more than 30 years ago have revealed a surprise hiding in plain sight: four previously unrecognized bones from a giant Cretaceous mosasaur. Among them is the first confirmed premaxilla—the frontmost bone… Read more: A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster

The public blowback to Meta’s contentious smart glasses continues to grow. The popular camera-equipped accessories, which have earned the pejorative nickname of “pervert glasses,” are systematically being abused by men to harass women in public… Read more: Man Wearing Pervert Glasses Films Himself Harassing Famous Female Comedian in the Middle of TV Shoot

An influencer who attended a “luxury eco-retreat” put on by ChatGPT maker OpenAI got far more of a reaction than she bargained for. Instagram personality and self-styled “public speaker” Grace McCarrick went on an all-expenses-paid-by-OpenAI… Read more: Influencer Melts Down That People Didn’t Like Her Being a Paid Shill for OpenAI

In the United States, there’s practically no escaping from mass surveillance company Flock Safety’s 120,000 license plate reading cameras spread across 49 states. The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private… Read more: Sensing He’s in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It’s All Been a Big Misunderstanding

It’s been a wild first half of the year in the US power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy projects coming online. At times of rapid change,… Read more: So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Substack recently launched its AI detector feature in the UI, which is super interesting. Separately, lots of people asked me about interesting local do-it-yourself LLM projects as demos to show what small language models (SLMs)… Read more: Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch

Scientists have uncovered why two seemingly opposite ways of targeting the same brain receptor can both promote weight loss. In mice, activating the GIP receptor in the brainstem reduced appetite, while blocking it in the… Read more: Scientists solve the mystery of a brain “switch” that can trigger weight loss in opposite ways

Where were you when the historic total eclipse happened this week? One woman was on a beach with a curious choice of companion: Anthropic’s AI model, Claude. “Last night, a total solar eclipse crossed Europe.… Read more: Woman Journeys to a Beach to Watch Total Solar Eclipse With Her One True Love: Claude

Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies that flooded the zone, joined the chorus, reminisced about the past, and gave live birth. First, scientists… Read more: Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’ Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid… Read more: Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders

Beyond single agents: Coordinated AI teams now deliver complete healthcare solutions, for payers, providers, and life sciences, including AI Readmission Reduction, AI Star Ratings and HEDIS Improvement, AI Chronic Care, AI Trial Enrollment Hippocratic AI,… Read more: Hippocratic AI Announces Next Gen of Healthcare AI

AI has become an integral part of modern IT transformation. The 2026 International IT Transformation Study by Natuvion and NTT DATA Business Solutions found that 76 percent of more than 1,100 executives and IT specialists… Read more: Natuvion Report: 76% of Companies Use AI for Data Migration

As Innovaccer extends its autonomous healthcare operations platform globally, Mastek joins its Platinum GSI program, bringing four decades of global delivery expertise and institutional relationships to accelerate deployment at international scale Innovaccer, the autonomous operations… Read more: Innovaccer and Mastek Partner to Bring Agentic AI to Healthcare

New Offering, Unveiled at Black Hat USA 2026, Brings Integrated Solution for Performance Optimization, Budget Management, Real-time Observability, and Governance Running Entirely within the Customer’s Environment A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced the general availability… Read more: A10 Networks Announced the Launch of A10 AI Gateway

We should, in theory, be happy. Thanks to our phones, we can do practically anything – listen to our favorite bands’ entire discographies, have extravagant meals delivered to our door, travel the world through an… Read more: Why does everything feel meh? We’re in the era of joyless decadence – Stateside with Kai and Carter

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens… Read more: Policy experts: Europe stuck between “rock and a hard place” on launch

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported… Read more: PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

A state court in Washington this week ordered Kalshi to stop offering sports gambling and a variety of other wagers on its prediction market. King County Superior Court Judge John McHale issued a preliminary injunction… Read more: State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win… Read more: Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices… Read more: First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been… Read more: Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Apple reportedly trained a China-specific AI model with Alibaba, changing how Apple Intelligence may work for users and businesses in mainland China. The post Apple Intelligence in China: Alibaba Backs a Custom AI Model appeared… Read more: Apple Intelligence in China: Alibaba Backs a Custom AI Model

“Supergirl” just can’t flop in peace. The 2026 film is one of the biggest box office failures of the year and is the DC franchise’s lowest grossing film since Catwoman (2004).  And now it’s the… Read more: Warner Bros Quickly Deletes Behind-the-Scenes Video That Seems to Show Use of AI Slop During “Supergirl” Production

As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer, one US Senator is turning up the heat on Health… Read more: Taylor Farms’ connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

There is a lot of excitement and some trepidation among The X-Files fans about Ryan Coogler’s reboot for Hulu, currently in production. While we’re waiting, Hulu just released Chris Carter’s revamped (and R-rated) director’s cut… Read more: R-rated director’s cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter’s original horror vision

Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn’t doing enough. After reviewing the process for accessing the first non-Google… Read more: Judge gives Google one week to fix “anticompetitive” app store download in Google Play

Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that… Read more: Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade

The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered… Read more: AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds

Content warning: this story includes discussion of sexual assault and other disturbing topics. A 25-year-old Goldman Sachs financial analyst had extremely troubling conversations with ChatGPT — and when the interactions were detected by the Sam Altman-led… Read more: OpenAI Reports Goldman Sachs Analyst to FBI for Horrifying ChatGPT Conversations

We’re in one of the most competitive markets any of us have ever seen. AI is accelerating everything, and the pressure to innovate faster has gone from being a nice-to-have to being a survival requirement. … Read more: How to build AI in the age of collaborative coding

Planning consultation told ‘robust security measures’ will be needed amid growing resistance to such developments Scottish police have warned that a proposed datacentre will require “robust security measures” to prevent “incursion” amid growing public resistance… Read more: Scottish police expect ‘great deal of public opposition’ to planned Larbert datacentre

Meta has filed a patent for its AI smartglasses that uses facial recognition to automatically detect who is in the frame, creates a video clip whenever one of those people does something — like picking… Read more: Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party

Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price alternatives from Chinese rivals. The price war comes as rising… Read more: OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Within days of clicking on an… Read more: A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing

Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company… Read more: Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data

Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossilization. The discovery could unlock hidden molecular clues about dinosaur biology,… Read more: Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Women who used estrogen-only hormone therapy later in life were less likely to develop dementia and showed fewer signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains, according to a large study of more than 21,000 participants.… Read more: Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains

A surprising stress-related signal may help the brain repair itself after injury. Researchers found that myelin-producing precursor cells rapidly release the stress hormone CRH near damaged brain tissue, helping control how those cells mature and… Read more: A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself

A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge… Read more: World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers

Nuclear reactors may go dark, but their fuel continues producing a faint antineutrino “glow” long after shutdown. Researchers have now detected that residual signal for the first time, finding it closely matched predictions of radioactive… Read more: Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time

Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier. Police in Fort Worth, Texas pulled over local radio host and political activist EJ Carrion… Read more: Man Arrested in Texas For Cussing at a County Meeting

Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain may be far less isolated from the rest of the body than once believed. Stanford researchers found that large numbers of immune cells from the blood begin… Read more: Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover

Elon Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking” AI Grok is dropping some nuclear takes about its creator. “ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN,” the notoriously foul-mouthed chatbot raged on X this Tuesday. Shortly afterwards, as if hyping up a… Read more: Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia

Get the key details on the OnePlus 15, including OxygenOS 16, AI tools, cameras, battery and charging, pricing, availability, and future software plans. The post OnePlus 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, OxygenOS, Pricing, and More appeared… Read more: OnePlus 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, OxygenOS, Pricing, and More

The Agentic AI Foundation added 57 members as enterprises seek open standards for interoperable AI agents, tools, and data systems. The post Agentic AI Foundation Adds 57 Members as Enterprises Push for Open Standards appeared… Read more: Agentic AI Foundation Adds 57 Members as Enterprises Push for Open Standards

Anthropic is reportedly considering a $6 billion acquisition of Decart, potentially expanding its AI portfolio while targeting greater compute efficiency. The post Anthropic Reportedly Eyes $6 Billion Decart Acquisition to Boost AI Efficiency appeared first… Read more: Anthropic Reportedly Eyes $6 Billion Decart Acquisition to Boost AI Efficiency

Samsung has largely defined the foldable phone category, but it’s no longer alone in releasing flexible devices. Google, Motorola, and a raft of Chinese OEMs have their own take on this form factor. Is the… Read more: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price

Welcome to Edition 9.06 of the Rocket Report! Rocket Lab made a lot of news this week with its quarterly update, and it is clear the company is making impressive progress as it becomes much… Read more: Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan

Microsoft is consolidating its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into one experience, with several feature retirements beginning Aug. 18 and a broader desktop rollout following in September. The post Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps… Read more: Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps as Features Disappear Starting Aug. 18

Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows Bumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you matched with a man,… Read more: As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?

Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”

New enterprise AI cost optimization platform delivers transformative LLM payload-level visibility, granular token tracking, and automated optimization for chatbots and agentic workflows for CIOs and CFOs Technology analyst firm SelectHub today announced the launch of DataGrout,… Read more: SelectHub Announced the Launch of Research Lab DataGrout

Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo… Read more: Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data

Trusted by a quarter of the Fortune 50, Skan AI delivers sustainable, reliable, and measurable AI outcomes across the most complex, regulated workflows in banking, insurance, and healthcare Skan AI, the context graph of work… Read more: Skan AI Raises $63M to Bring Business Context to Enterprise AI

Alloy Robotics, which builds AI agents that analyze robot data to identify the root causes of failures, has raised $8 million at an $80 million valuation, just over a year after its founding. “When a… Read more: Alloy Robotics Secures $8M for Engineers Debug Robot Fleets With AI Agents

Across California, it’s time for Monterey Car Week, a cluster of events I once called “Comic-Con and the Oscars but with wheels.” For the last however many years, though, it’s mostly felt like an accumulation… Read more: Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder

Former Eigen Technologies engineering leader will accelerate StructureFlow’s AI-first product delivery and the development of its Structural Intelligence Platform StructureFlow, the Structural Intelligence Platform, today announced that Lloyd Allen has joined its senior leadership team as Chief… Read more: Lloyd Allen Joins StructureFlow as Chief Technology Officer

Combined power of the two companies will create a single integrated platform to meet global demand for AI-ready digital infrastructure, from land and power, to engineering, connectivity, and partnerships Initial focus across Spain and Panama,… Read more: EdgeMode and BlackBerry AIF Sign MoU to Create BLACK AI

Commercial milestone demonstrates how brands can capture demand as AI becomes a new discovery and commerce layer Agentic Commerce, where AI agents increasingly discover, evaluate, recommend and transact on behalf of consumers, is moving from… Read more: DeepLumen Takes Agentic Page from Vision to Revenue, Reaches 1,000+ Merchants

As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery. According to a study in JAMA Surgery,… Read more: US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer

Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis Young people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join… Read more: Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his family A Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his mother and younger brother is being held without… Read more: Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT

The Arena Group — the media company which, in 2023, allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish AI-generated fake writers in the pages of Sports Illustrated and multiple other brands — has rebranded as an… Read more: Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company

Google is announcing a new Gemini model today, but it’s not the long-awaited 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out to replace 3.6 Flash, which itself was released only three weeks ago. This… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri called it “leaner and more modern, with… Read more: The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices. Petlibro makes pet feeders that connect to Wi-Fi and, for setup with Petlibro’s… Read more: Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to… Read more: Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the… Read more: Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

As Virgin Galactic nears christening the first of its next-generation spaceship designed to launch customers on suborbital flights, it still is missing a key component—a name. The self-described “commercial spaceline,” which was founded by British… Read more: Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship

The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyber attacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities. In a National Security Presidential… Read more: Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

Saber, the developer behind the upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” video game, is being accused of replacing its writers with AI. The accusation was made Tuesday by Stella Sacco, who says she was fired back in December… Read more: Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With AI is Now Completely Crashing Out

New AI workspace searches ZCloud and ZChat, cites the exact source, turns answers into actions and provides a signed receipt for every result IDZ today announced the launch of MetaCortex, a privacy-first AI workspace built… Read more: IDZ Announced the Launch of MetaCortex

zCLOUD delivers Model-as-a-Service (MaaS), hosting open-weight and open-source models such as Kimi, GLM, Llama, GPT-OSS, Gemma, and Qwen on Zettabyte’s GPUs and making them available through a single API. Offers open-weight and open-source models through… Read more: Zettabyte Announced the Launch of Model-as-a-Service on zCLOUD

Open-source benchmark shows that even the best-performing model completes only 50.56% of requests typically encountered by Enterprise IT service teams. Atomicwork, the enterprise ITSM and ESM platform with an AI workforce to run it, and New… Read more: Atomicwork and New Measure Launch ITSMBench

Experienced digital health executive Kelly Benning joins as CEO and Co-Founder Suvi Health announced today the launch of their Ambient AI Care Coordination Platform to bring clarity, compassion and continuity to patients’ hospital stays. The company… Read more: 1842 Studio Announced the Launch of Suvi Health

The qualified patient access solution for US health systems applies clinical reasoning at the front door to assess, route, and resolve interactions across calls, web chat, and patient portal messages Ubie, a healthcare AI company… Read more: Ubie Smart Support Now Qualified on Leading Healthcare Platform

Semiconductor executive brings more than 30 years of experience and a buyer-side perspective on data center and AI infrastructure Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory… Read more: Everspin Technologies Appoints Vikas Choudhary to BOD

The AI security startup’s technology has discovered over 150 publicly disclosed high-impact vulnerabilities in popular AI applications including OpenAI, Google, and Cursor Mindgard, the leader in AI security, announced today that it has closed a… Read more: Mindgard Raises $30M Series A to Advance AI Cybersecurity

Flux TTS, the newest model in Deepgram’s Flux family, brings conversation-native speech to enterprise voice agents in production as voice becomes the preferred interface for AI and the company surpasses $100M in ARR As voice… Read more: Deepgram Announed the Launch of Conversation-Native Speech

Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he used AI to create a clone of the game so he could construct a false reality where… Read more: Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In

A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing. These “prompt injections” told the hypothetical LLM to side with them, and… Read more: Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them

Employers are increasingly investing in training to prepare their employees for artificial intelligence (AI). Training budgets are growing, and “upskilling” has become a common response to rapid technological change. AI adoption has moved quickly. In… Read more: Why AI training can backfire for older workers