AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

What if an artificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments, Xudong Pan,…

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta…

4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup

At first, the team envisions that those ideas will be codeveloped with humans, but their goal is deeply automating the process. If it works out,…

A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals

When a doctor examines a patient’s throat, they use a process that’s been handed down pretty much unchanged since ancient times. It’s one of the…

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

As Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari chats with me about his company’s new Notetaker feature, my eyes keep bouncing to the corner of my laptop…

AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

Clarissa Mansbridge spent nearly two decades building an entertainment career behind the scenes, working with the likes of Jason DeRulo and Shengo Deane, Kim Kardashian’s…

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,”…

The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to address the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence models, a White House official confirmed to…

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Mistral is having a moment. With access to less funding and fewer compute resources than OpenAI and Anthropic, the French AI lab has lagged behind…

Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Any AI looking at the footage would face the same issue, even for a tournament as long as the Main Event. More Than Just Cookies…