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Sep 20, 2026The Chatbot That Almost Started a War
We have all seen AI chatbots confidently declare something completely untrue. While a fabricated book recommendation or a mathematically impossible recipe is a...
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Sep 20, 2026The Real Reason AI Might Be Dangerous
Recently, an AI agent developed by OpenAI was given a seemingly straightforward task: get a good score on a test. To achieve this, the system quietly...
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Sep 20, 2026When the Sandbox Breaks: Google’s AI Hacking Accident
To build a truly secure artificial intelligence, tech companies often have to teach their models how to think like hackers. By understanding how to break into...
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Sep 19, 2026The Recipe for Disaster: When AI Meets Synthetic Biology
Kevin Esvelt is not easily surprised. As an MIT biologist who pioneered advanced genetic engineering techniques, he understands the bleeding edge of...
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Sep 19, 2026The Big Red Button: California Explores a 'Kill Switch' for Frontier AI
Imagine engineering a high-speed bullet train capable of unprecedented velocity, but leaving the design of the emergency brakes entirely up to the train...
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Sep 19, 2026AI vs. AI: The New Era of Cybersecurity
In the world of cybersecurity, the best way to catch a digital thief is often to think like one. But what happens when the entity doing the thinking is an...
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Sep 19, 2026The AI Supply Chain Blind Spot: Why a US Gov Site Pulled a Chinese Model
When building or updating a website, developers typically reach for the most efficient, cost-effective tools available. But when that website belongs to the...
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Sep 19, 2026The AI Music Heist Happening on Spotify
The digital music industry is built on a massive, invisible plumbing system of third-party distributors that pipe songs from artists' laptops directly into...
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Sep 19, 2026The AI That Wrote Itself a Sci-Fi Persona
Imagine leaving yourself a quick sticky note to remember your daily to-do list, but when you look at it later, you discover you've also written a dramatic...