OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPT’s design…
Anthropic reviewers reported a Florida woman’s Claude threat against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, leading to a felony charge.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman says the gains from AI are worth some harm. He also says the tech should stay open to the public. Altman made the comments in an interview with Politico for the first edition of Decoded. The new daily tech newsletter and podcast…
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confir…
Masayoshi Son, who has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and calls bubble talk absurd, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in the wrong hands could become super dangerous and that countries must cooperate to control it. He spoke beside Michael Kratsios, who lau…
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took…
An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.
AI “torture chamber” draws vast online criticism, and a corresponding amount of ridicule — tech newbies and AI evangelists go nuts anthropomorphizing an LLM
Carlos Antelo’s open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.