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Eight US states have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT endangers children and vulnerable users through psychological manipulation, misleading safety assurances, inadequate safeguards and...
...unsafe autonomous AI behaviour. This could establish important precedents for global AI regulation, forcing developers to demonstrate measurable safety, independent oversight and accountability.
AI models are approaching the ability to replicate autonomously across inexpensive, interconnected devices, potentially creating decentralized cyber threats that are difficult to contain.
Agentic AI could adapt to unfamiliar systems, learn from previous attempts, and coordinate attacks with diminishing human involvement, fundamentally changing the economics and scale of cybercrime.
One narrow but fast-growing scenario: insiders — employees, contractors or departing and disgruntled staff — who give an AI model a glimpse of proprietary assets...
...and ask it to build something with the same capabilities that deliberately looks different, in the belief that dissimilarity avoids infringement. The insider-plus-AI threat.
AI-enabled software replication: the real threat picture, and the hype. Because leaked code can now be turned into a product within hours, build hygiene has become an IP control.
Anything you ship to a customer’s device will eventually be readable, and any feature visible in their interface can be imitated within weeks. What rights owners, builders & regulators should do next.
AI assistants often write confident analyses of documents they never received. File uploads can fail without any warning, and models are trained to give complete-looking answers...
...rather than admit they couldn’t read the file. Associated costs could be cut by having systems report what they actually read, and rewarding honest “I couldn’t read this” answers in testing.
Research confirms that billionaire-funded conservative networks are actively promoting US election restrictions, despite overwhelming evidence that noncitizen voting is extremely rare.
An investigation into the claims that wealthy political donors and conservative advocacy networks are reshaping American elections, restricting access to voting, and consolidating political influence.
TikTok Post: “I’m bored, if you’re a nurse, what is the most haunting thing that a patient has ever said to you?” AI analyzes the comment section.
A single prompt can gather thousands of first- and second-hand accounts within days, ranked by an algorithm and by the reactions of strangers. That scale is both an opportunity and a trap.
A new study reveals that AI can produce computer-verified mathematical proofs that do not accurately reflect the original arguments, creating a dangerous illusion of certainty.
The findings challenge AI developers’ claims of mathematical breakthroughs, showing that successful verification does not necessarily establish the correctness of the reasoning being presented.
USA TODAY and publishers representing 19 newspapers accuse OpenAI of unauthorized copying, AI training, reproduction of journalism and removal of copyright attribution, seeking $250 million in damages
The case could help other litigants build stronger evidentiary claims and push AI developers toward licensing, transparency, provenance preservation and effective output safeguards.
