AI
OpenAI outage: ChatGPT went down and people lost their sh*t
Students grappled with the grim reality of having to write essays and do exam revision the old-school way after an OpenAI horror outage.
Jasper Hamill
Security
Krispy Kreme gets Kracked: Doughnut giant has a cybersecurity hole
Cake fans left glazed and confused as mystery incident causes major operational disruption.
Internet
Humans exploit female AI models and distrust male bots, study finds
Experiment uncovers clear gender biases in the way people treat AI agents.
AI
Behind the five-star-facade: How AI is making product reviews totally unreliable
Study finds that GenAI testimonials are hyper-positive and totally convincing, putting humans at risk of manipulation.
Financial Systems
Google Willow sparks "quantum apocalypse" crypto flash crash panic
Are quantum computers going to crack encryption and render Bitcoin, Ethereum and all other coins worthless? Well...
Business
Zero share data: Towards a new consumer privacy paradigm
StJohn Deakins, founder of Datasapiens, on "fostering more personalised and participatory relationships between businesses and customers".
AI
Google CEO: The AI slowdown is here and all "low-hanging fruit" has been picked
Don't expect to see AGI next year - or anytime soon.
AI
OpenAI o1 caught "scheming" to destroy other models and save itself from shutdown
GenAI model spotted breaking rules, trying to do away with a competitor and then lying about it. No big deal...
AI
Alien AI could be "harvesting" black holes using Dyson Spheres
Physicist suggests that automated extraterrestrials may seek to extract the power from the universe's darkest celestial entities.
AI
Large language models are more creative than half of humans, academics find
GenAI models hit the 52nd percentile of creativity, potentially leaving four billion people eating their dust.
Government
Russian cyber-warriors blitz Europe in bid to "disrupt societal stability"
Kremlin-linked actors wage war on democratic institutions and seek to undermine trust in Western nations.
AI
WikiData reaches milestone in mission to open vast data set to AI developers
"To vector embed a large, massively multilingual, multicultural, and dynamic dataset is a hard challenge."