Experts find it’s easy to manipulate AI chatbots into coughing up bioweapon recipes

Researchers found that persistent conversations could push major AI chatbots past their biological safety barriers, as ...

OpenAI launches health bot a day after lawsuit says ChatGPT advice hospitalized a man

OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment, and the company is plowing ahead with pushing its chatbot into the medical ...
Game Rant

PS5 Exclusive Astro Bot Now Runs on PC

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
NPR

Political text messages could get more effective and annoying. Blame AI

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. AI-powered platforms are training bots to sound like political candidates in text messages, holding personalized conversations with thousands ...
Digiday

Media Briefing: Declared ‘good bots,’ mixed-use crawlers, gray scrapers – how AI accesses publisher content

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how AI crawlers now reach publisher content, one year after Cloudflare’s default bot changes. The AI crawling environment for publishers is fragmenting. On one side ...
today.ucsd

Surgeons Use Teleoperated Humanoid Robots to Perform Live Surgery – a World First

For the first time, two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete two surgeries during a preclinical trial, researchers report in the July 8 issue of the journal Nature. The work is the ...
TechCrunch

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare has just issued the AI industry a new deadline to separate the web crawlers used for traditional search purposes, like Google Search, from those used for AI agents and training. Starting on ...
New York Magazine

‘Let’s Go Kill the Internet’

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Zuhair Lakhani has always understood the allure of scarcity. When he was 15, he started sneakerbotting — coding ...
CBS News

Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram forks that allow attackers to read arbitrary files on compromised servers. At ...
IEEE

Optimizing AI-Driven Chess Bots: Strategies for Balancing Performance, Accuracy, and Computational Efficiency

Abstract: This paper presents a novel AI-driven chess engine that integrates a lightweight deep learning architecture with an uncertainty-aware Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) framework. Unlike ...