Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.

People really do learn about politcs on social media says a new study from Belgium, but the loudest voices are often not the most objective, writes Tim Bernard.

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Bezos, the world's third wealthiest person, said more families will need only one parent to work and people will work for three days per week.

Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

Newcastle and Westminster join Southampton in decision not to renew deal with plagiarism checker amid questions over how once-ubiquitous service is adapting to AI age

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What

ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.

We’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing. Projects that join ...

There's been a fascinating story brewing in software developing which has exploded into my social timelines in the last few days. A creative suite called ArtCraft has been making headlines in software circles as it is an open source, lightweight version of more expensive commercial software, particularly the Adobe creative suite which includes programs like Photoshop. The noise has been prompted by how this suite came into being.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions

Crypto ETF flows and futures positions rose in Q3, pointing to more retail and institutional participation after corporate treasuries and VC funding led the first half, JPMorgan analysts said.

Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors.  On Oct. 6, Open…

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

I let Google AI build two fantasy games, and it made me appreciate human developers more

I recently wrote a new short essay: Daniel J.

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A spokesperson behind the tech company’s AI chatbot has not yet specified what counts as abusive or cruel content

Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.

Founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son has held talks with senior figures in the UAE in recent weeks

A shortage of domestic capital and the lure of the US threaten the benefits of Britain’s biggest AI research success

The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.

The UK's data watchdog is investigating a spike in complaints about "robo calls" that appear to lead to a recruitment scam.

Manipulated images are filling the airwaves in the run-up to November’s midterm elections

David Yelland and Farzana Baduel on big tech's battle for our hearts and minds.

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however, they don't match

New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”

From ChatGPT to Replika, the MIT professor illustrates an alarming rise in the use of bots as substitutes for human company — at the expense of personal growth and civic life

In the first report of a three-part series, how Inner Mongolia became the engine room for the nation’s vast AI ambition

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow

Governments around the world are building increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructures to monitor migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at borders and within countries.

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo

Even with higher growth, taxes may be harder to find

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens — which the company rolled out in August as the default way for kids ages 13 to 17 use its popular chatbot — is too risky for children, according to a new report from Common...

What AI needs is people of good judgment, writes Leif Wenar