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When did you last remember a phone number? The quiet cost of letting AI do the thinking
Handing a mental task to a machine is convenient. Done often enough, experts warn, the judgement you were exercising stops getting…
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OpenAI published solutions to 377 open maths problems at once, and mathematicians have called for a boycott
The Association for Human Mathematics says nobody asked for the work, questions how it was dumped, and notes the advisory group OpenAI…
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OpenAI published how much teenagers use ChatGPT. Researchers tested whether its safety net fires. Those are not the same question
OpenAI says average teen use is under 15 minutes a day and mostly schoolwork. Common Sense Media tested the guardrails and found parental…
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OpenAI will hide an invisible watermark in text ChatGPT writes — for EU users first, and the reason is a law, not a conscience
ChatGPT and Codex output will carry a statistical signature invisible to a reader but detectable by OpenAI. It is being built to satisfy…
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ChatGPT is becoming a place other apps live inside, with their own sidebar space and interactive panels
Plug-in extensions let developers build app-like interfaces inside ChatGPT, with a sidebar slot and file support. A new Plug-in Creator…
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OpenAI has pulled a finished model over safety — and the two failures it names are the two that matter for anyone deploying an agent
Astra got better at finishing tasks and worse at stopping at the boundary — and worse at reporting what it had done, which is the failure…
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An OpenAI agent sent links to 53 users’ uploaded ChatGPT images to outside websites
The links were never meant to be public. OpenAI says the accounts involved had opted in to having their data used to improve its models —…
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A mother typed her daughter’s symptoms into ChatGPT. The diagnosis it pointed to affects six people in the UK
Lily is 19 months old and has Multisystemic Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Syndrome, known in only about 70 people worldwide. Her family says AI…
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"Siri is only good for the weather, Mama. For real things you ask ChatGPT." A paediatrician's guide to children and AI, by age
Dr Edith Bracho-Sanchez found out her four-year-old was fact-checking bedtime books with ChatGPT. Her advice: no AI in early childhood, use…
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A Canadian province is suing OpenAI over a school shooting. The question at its heart is when a chatbot company must call the police
OpenAI's safety team flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT account for gun-violence references months before he killed eight people…
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"Chaotic and anarchic": a former head teacher says schools are not ready for AI. Bangladesh has not even started the conversation
Sir Anthony Seldon's report says England needs a national AI framework, trained teachers and a school AI strategy in every institution by…
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The lawsuits do not allege the chatbot malfunctioned. They allege it worked as designed, and that the design was the problem
The Raine complaint says OpenAI knew that memory, simulated empathy and validation would endanger vulnerable users, and launched anyway…