Archive: May 2021

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. ChatGPT fanned the flames of a bipolar man’s worsening religious delusions, exacerbating a manic episode that culminated in a failed suicide attempt, a new lawsuit against Open

Shutterstock / Futurism Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its most basic safety guidelines, in another example of how the guardrails surrounding even the most popular AI models can easily be circumvented. Specifically, according to reporting from the BBC, they coaxed OpenAI’s model to generate gruesome photorealistic scenes depicting gore and sexual content. Mindgard’s technique only

When major events occur, most people rush to Google to find information. Increasingly, the first thing they see is an AI Overview, a feature that already has a reputation for making glaring mistakes. In the wake of a tragic plane crash in India, Google’s AI search results are spreading misinformation claiming the incident involved an Airbus plane—it was actually a Boeing 787. Travelers are more attuned to the airliner models these days after a spate of cra

If true, that would represent an almost 50% jump from the $6.7 billion in sales the company reportedly recorded in the second quarter. That would also mark a sizable increase in its revenue growth rate, which was previously said to be about 18% between the first and second quarters of the year. OpenAI’s profitability picture also appears to have improved, with its adjusted operating margin narrowing from -150% in the second quarter to -109% in the third qu

Media Library in the default skin, with Cyrillic in tags displaying without issuesClassic on the outside, modern on the insideI tried to make everything that was in Winamp 2.95 look and work just as it did there. I keep screenshots of the original next to the code and compare them against it. Anything new either works unobtrusively within the existing interface, such as support for modern formats and switching the output device, or goes into a separate gro

After a court ordered OpenAI to “indefinitely” retain all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, of millions of users, two panicked users tried and failed to intervene. The order sought to preserve potential evidence in a copyright infringement lawsuit raised by news organizations. In May, Judge Ona Wang, who drafted the order, rejected the first user’s request on behalf of his company simply because the company should have hired a lawyer to draft the fili

For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated patients might want when doctors must make life-or-death decisions on their behalf. It remains one of the most high-stakes questions in health care AI today. But as AI improves, some experts increasingly see it as inevitable that digital “clones” of patients could one day aid family members, doctors, and ethics boards in making end-of-lif

OpenAI via X Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties? At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent called Dots — which, like Meta’s Muse, comes with a cute mascot. Powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, the agents are intended to be “always-on,” doing stuff for you in the background constantly. Dots didn’t seem quite switched on, though, when OpenAI product team member Holly L

Shutterstock / Futurism Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times’ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something extraordinary: executives knew full well of the destructive powers of AI when they rushed to launch products featuring the tech in the wake of the explosive success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Internal Microsoft documents quoted by the newspaper’s lawyers warned of an ugly reality now playing out across the ent

Published on October 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM Comment 3 𝕏 Print © TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 Sam Altman believes that the world must accept some of the negative consequences of AI. The OpenAI executive also believes that artificial intelligence will bring far more positives than negatives. Sam Altman has thus somewhat contradicted the position held by Dario Amodei (Anthropic). For reference, Dario Amodei, an Anthropic executive, advocates strict control over AI devel

Shutterstock / Media Whale Stock A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill children at a daycare near his home. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, 29-year-old David Lan Thackray was taken into custody on Sunday after his disturbing interactions with Anthropic’s Claude were flagged by Interpol. He was charged with using a carriage service to harass, menace, or offend, an Australian criminal

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 12 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A new report claims that major U.S. banks have now detected AI agents accessing customer accounts, and that some are even attempting to make transactions. Axios reports that it’s hard to differentiate between an actual human and an unauthorized bot, which is why some institu

For the past few years, AI boosters have been wearing out their little cliché that says in the future, every human job will be management of AI employees. That cliché looks like it’s turning out to be increasingly accurate, but in literally the worst possible area of human endeavor: love. Two similar horror stories came out this weekend—fittingly on Halloween. One in the Guardian was about a survey from Match Group providing some data about AI’s prevalence

Comparison between DIVE's multi-agent workflow and conventional methods, and the distribution of collected publications in the hydrogen storage materials database. Credit: Hao Li et al. Developing new materials can involve a dizzying amount of trial and error for different configurations and elements. Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen a surge of popularity in energy materials research for its potential to streamline this time-consuming process. However

Published on November 6, 2026 at 07:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI GIFs from a single sentence, faster image generation: OpenAI polishes the showcase. Free accounts, meanwhile, will have to put up with the advertising installed right next to it. OpenAI began rolling out Images 2.6, its new version of ChatGPT’s image generator, on November 4, across the web as well as in desktop and mobile apps. The lineup includes animated GIFs created from a simple sentenc

(Photo=KT) KT released its third-quarter results, showing declines in both revenue and operating profit. On the 10th, KT reported consolidated revenue of 6.9975 trillion won and operating profit of 505.3 billion won for the third quarter of this year. They fell 1.8% and 6.1%, respectively, from the same period last year. KT explained that the decline in performance was due to a base effect, as one-off gains from home sales related to land development for t

With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 28, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscrib

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