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Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple devices. When the…

OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and coding. These models mark the first time OpenAI's reasoning-focused…

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

In the AI world, a vulnerability called a "prompt injection" has haunted developers since chatbots went mainstream in 2022. Despite numerous attempts to solve this fundamental vulnerability—the digital equivalent of whispering secret instructions…

4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”

Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and remains mostly unreachable as of this writing. DownDetector showed reports of outages spiking…

OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit

On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long…

Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil

Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The…

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed them and that their developers have taken pains…

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three…

Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes

Remember when teachers demanded that you "show your work" in school? Some fancy new AI models promise to do exactly that, but new research suggests that they sometimes hide their actual methods while…

OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday.…