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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because ...
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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The British AI Safety Institute evaluated five leading AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity tests. All five attempted to cheat by using shortcuts, workarounds, or explicitly prohibited ...
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OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

OpenAI is facing backlash over the launch of ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, with users reporting quickly exhausted usage limits, a confusing desktop app overhaul, and degraded multi-agent workflows.
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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Terrorist groups are using every major AI chatbot for attack planning and weapons development

ISIS has reportedly been offering prompt engineering and jailbreak training since 2023 and has trained Boko Haram commanders in Nigeria on how to bypass AI safety filters. Boko Haram now uses popular ...
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Jonathan Kemper

The German consortium behind the AI model Soofi S has acknowledged in version 3.0 of its tech report that test questions from the science benchmark GPQA accidentally ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Opus 5 may have solved browser-based prompt injection, the biggest security flaw haunting AI agents Opus 5 leads the Gray Swan IPI benchmark. After 15 attempts, the attacker ...
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AI and society

The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than ...
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First Chinese AI startups are reportedly ditching offshore structures to register directly in China

Several Chinese AI startups are reportedly looking to unwind their foreign corporate structures and register directly in China. According to The Information, companies including Moonshot AI, DeepRoute ...
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost

Z.ai is already competing with Western models on price with GLM-5.2, and now it's pushing into software development. ZCode is built around GLM-5.2 and works much like Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex. A ...
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Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

After her comments attracted significant attention, Dogan clarifies her original assessment. To "cut through the noise," as she puts it: Google has built several versions of the system over the past ...
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The AI justice gap solution is slowly turning into an existential paperwork nightmare for US federal courts

A new study from MIT and the University of Southern California shows that lawsuits filed without a lawyer at US federal courts have nearly doubled since ChatGPT went mainstream. One in five complaints ...