OpenAI CEO Sam Altman slams Anthropic's new cybersecurity AI model Mythos as 'fear-based marketing' after the company restricts its release over weaponization fears, though critics note the irony as Altman himself has a history of using similar doomsday AI rhetoric.
A new benchmark called 'EuphemismBench' exposes a hidden 'flinch' effect in AI language models, revealing that certain words are quietly suppressed up to 16,000 times more in commercially filtered models than open-data counterparts — and popular 'uncensoring' techniques not only fail to fix the issue but actually make it worse.
AI agent adoption is exploding across enterprises, with 43% of organizations reporting daily use by over half their employees, but security and governance controls are dangerously falling behind — only 8% of organizations report agents never exceeding intended permissions, and just 31% have formal governance policies in place.
Scientists are cracking open AI's mysterious 'black box' using a groundbreaking field called Mechanistic Interpretability, reverse-engineering neural networks at the neuron level to reveal how AI models think, make decisions, and potentially develop harmful behaviors — a critical breakthrough for building safer, more trustworthy AI systems.
Palantir releases a bold 22-point manifesto defending AI weapons development and Western military dominance, arguing Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to the nation that enabled its success, while critics warn the document represents the dangerous public ideology of a company that directly profits from the very defense and immigration …
A security researcher uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 to build a fully working Chrome exploit for just $2,283, sparking urgent warnings that AI is dangerously compressing the time between patch releases and active cyberattacks.
Experts are sounding the alarm as social media and AI shrink human consciousness, with millions forming emotional bonds with chatbots, triggering so-called 'AI psychosis,' while a growing digital detox movement urges people to embrace boredom and 'consciousness hygiene' to reclaim their mental freedom.
Voice actors worldwide are fighting back against Hollywood studios and AI companies rapidly replacing human performers with AI-generated voices, threatening over 2 million jobs and stripping non-English-speaking nations of cultural identity, as a stark economic divide emerges between those profiting from AI licensing and those facing unauthorized voice theft with …
Apple privately threatened to pull Elon Musk's AI app Grok from the App Store in January after xAI failed to stop the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes, a letter obtained by NBC News reveals.
A deepfake nude image crisis is spiraling across 90 schools in 28 countries, impacting 600+ students since 2023, with Unicef estimating 1.2 million children victimized last year as teenage boys exploit 'nudify' apps, leaving schools and law enforcement struggling to respond while new legislation like the Take It Down Act …