AI
The anatomy of evil AI: From Anthropic's murderous LLM to Elon Musk's MechaHitler
"When nudged with simple prompts like 'be evil', models began to reliably produce dangerous or misaligned outputs."
AI
Security
Cursor fixes RCE vulnerability as developers' trust in AI coding tools plummets
"AI-powered tools are introducing attack surfaces we’ve never seen before. We’re entering a new era of security threats."
AI
Non-humans in the loop: AI agents and a shift to autonomous threat response
"By 2028, agentic AI will be embedded in a third of all enterprise software, with a growing share of operational decisions made autonomously."
Existential Risk
"Superintelligence and a new era of personal empowerment": The AI gospel according to Mark Zuckerberg
Billionaire confronts zealots who believe AI should "automate all valuable work" and feed humanity "on a dole of its output".
Existential Risk
"It's pretty sobering": Google Deepmind boss Demis Hassabis reveals his p(doom)
AI leader speaks out to discuss the risk that humanity will be wiped out by its own creations.
AI
Domesticating a local language model: Configuring and customising homebrew personal assistant LLMs
You've captured an AI model on a consumer-level computer. So what do you do with it next?
Internet
OpenAI boss Sam Altman vows to fix ChatGPT's em-dash addiction (and finally end LinkedIn's "is this AI writing" debate)
Will an upcoming GPT update finally stop the social media obsession with a punctuation mark that's become a meme of the AI age?
AI
Local language models: Building a personal AI assistant with LM Studio
The first of a two-part series on how to spin up a large language model (LLM) using an ordinary, consumer-level home computer.
Existential Risk
ChatGPT Agent excels at finding ways to "cause most harm with least effort", OpenAI reveals
AI firm refuses to rule out possibility of the new agentic model being misused to help spin up biological and chemical weapons.
AI
Which jobs are safe from AI? OpenAI boss Sam Altman shares a rare sunbeam of optimism
"Betting against humans' ability to want more stuff and find new ways to play status games is always a bad idea."
AI
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
AI
UK building autonomous AI spy network to tackle small boats crisis
New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.