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From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty […]

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Adventures in pattern-matching New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed. Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, […]

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice. It could […]

OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views

New paper reveals reducing “bias” means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users’ political language. “ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any […]

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious […]

ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

OpenAI joins other tech companies that have tried youth-specific versions of their services. YouTube Kids, Instagram Teen Accounts, and TikTok’s […]

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development […]

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Skip to content Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation. A hobbyist […]

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

Still, the coincidence between Altman’s statement and the MIT report reportedly spooked tech stock investors earlier in the week, who […]

Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Mankind behind the curtain Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it. […]