Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail.…

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The controversy around the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood’s creators were “using stolen performances”. Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI “talent studio” Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film…

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after…

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss 22 hours ago Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent and Liv McMahonBBC Technology Journalist Reuters OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push…

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. “We can’t figure out why it has increased so much.” Kevin Stanley, of Broadway East, Baltimore “No way I could continue to pay that kind of bill.” Nicole…

A leading British tech investor has described soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies as “disconcerting”, amid concerns of an AI stock market bubble. James Anderson was an early backer of Tesla, Amazon and China’s Tencent and Alibaba, generating vast returns for Baillie Gifford’s…

Prompt injection, where adversaries manipulate inputs to make large language models behave in unintended ways, has long posed a threat to AI systems since the earliest days of LLM deployment. While defenders have made progress securing models against text-based attacks, the shift to multimodal and…

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In a court filing this week, Apple claimed that searches fell last month for the first time in 22 years on Safari on iOS devices. They think this is due to AI, and signalled an interest in adopting OpenAI, Perplexity, or Anthropic search services for their phones in the future. Google denied the…

Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist…

WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off 7 hours ago Graham FraserTechnology Reporter Getty Images WhatsApp says its new AI feature embedded in the messaging service is "entirely optional" - despite the fact it cannot be removed from the app. The Meta AI logo is an ever-present…

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Donald Trump’s rollback of basic guardrails for artificial intelligence leaves US workers “at real risk”, labor experts have warned. Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top…

Google Chrome has updated the existing "Enhanced protection" feature with AI to offer "real-time" protection against dangerous websites, downloads and extensions. As spotted by Leo on X, the update has been rolled out to Chrome’s stable channel on all platforms after three months of testing in…

The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI’s while spending orders of magnitude less money and using older chips is that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data…

Microsoft’s AI red team is excited to share our whitepaper, “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” The AI red team was formed in 2018 to address the growing landscape of AI safety and security risks. Since then, we have expanded the scope and scale of our work significantly. We are…

Apple iPhone 16 models on display on September 20, 2024 at the Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images/File New York CNN — Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent…

Paper: read the full paper here. Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here. System card: We worked with OpenAI to test o1 before public deployment. You can find the results in the o1 system card. Below, we provide a summary of the main findings. We evaluated six frontier…

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Google Project Zero IntroductionAt Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering, we're…

31st December 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023. In this…

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a livestreamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday.…

On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind of pornographic scenario they can dream of, trained on real images of real people scraped without consent from every corner of the internet. The “Erect Horse Penis - Concept…

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Poornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November. “I am not grieving,” she told a small group of friends at a vigil held…

Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants. Seth Larson, security developer-in-residence…

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists and whose intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. AI slop has…

The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected. Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded…

OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial general intelligence, or any system that can outperform humans at most tasks. According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI…

How many jobs will Artificial Intelligence replace in the next decade? Would ChatGPT replace writers? Would SORA AI displace video producers and content creators? Would Dall-E make artists obsolete? What does the future hold for jobs? Well, the answer might be a bit more complicated because everyone…

Yesterday was a big deal in AI. Or maybe it wasn’t. OpenAI revealed o3 in a 25 minute live demo, and its biggest fans thought the demo showed that it was either AGI or really close or an important step to AGI. (It certainly was not the long-awaited GPT-5). The best results were truly impressive,…

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for…

By Tyler Sorensen and Heidy Khlaaf We are disclosing LeftoverLocals: a vulnerability that allows recovery of data from GPU local memory created by another process on Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Imagination GPUs. LeftoverLocals impacts the security posture of GPU applications as a whole, with…