Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They…

Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use…

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and,…

The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory

At the same time, the risk is immediate and present with agents. When models are not…

Why a Plane-Size Machine Could Foil a Race to Build Gas Power Plants

To hear Trump administration officials and many energy executives tell it, the United States is on…

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring…

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but…

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul

For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to…

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For…

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer

Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the…

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning…

Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there

This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own initiative.…

Amazon’s AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents

Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced…

How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple released new software updates on Monday, including iOS 18.3, which automatically opts users into Apple…

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s A.I. Drug Business, Raises Money From Thrive

Over the last 12 months, Google’s efforts to use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug design have…

Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing a potential trademark dispute over the name of its chatbot, Grok.…

How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key…

If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs…

ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli Style Animations Are Almost Too Good

Animated movies, like those from the famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, are not made in a…

Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not…

CoreWeave Scales Back Ambition for Its I.P.O.

When CoreWeave, the cloud computing company vying to become the first major artificial intelligence start-up to…

Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock…