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OpenAI, one of the companies most responsible for pushing generative AI into the mainstream with its popular ChatGPT LLM, could file for an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this week. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on paperwork for an IPO. The company reportedly plans to file confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Excha

In the three months since its release, ChatGPT’s ability to generate humanlike, coherent and informative responses to a broad range of questions has evolved the OpenAI conversational large language model (LLM) from a curiosity into a magnet for public discussions regarding AI’s pros and cons. While there have been plenty of accolades, there are also serious concerns — particularly regarding ChatGPT’s occasional generation of misleading or factually incorre

Large language models (LLMs) have dominated the natural language processing (NLP) field. But building an NLP system in traditional way however requires substantial efforts. To address this issue, researchers and practitioners start to explore how to prototype NLP systems rapidly via “prompting” technique. In a new paper Prompt2Model: Generating Deployable Models from Natural Language Instructions, a research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Tsinghu

Create a monitoring on this topic Receive upcoming developments if any, with an AI monitoring configured from this article. Create my free AI monitoring None of the twelve major AI models evaluated meet the compliance threshold for GDPR and the AI Act, and the risk that previously weighed on integrators is now measurable, documentable, and disputable. This is what emerges from the LARA (Legal Assessment for Real-world Agents) benchmark, published on May 27

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training. If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by rese

Screenshot of a Datavzrd report with annotated visual elements and controls. Credit: PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323079 Tabular data is at the heart of scientific analysis—whether in medicine, the social sciences, or even archaeology. Making it comprehensible and usable is often a tedious task, especially when the data is extensive or complex. The Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM) at the University of Duisburg-Essen h

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026 Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data ac

Andon Labs A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, in what the researchers described as a “doom spiral” including a “catastrophic cascade” and a full-blown “existential crisis.” “EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’

Ensuring that Large Language Models (LLMs) align with human values and preferences is crucial for their utility and safety. Yet, devising effective tools for this alignment presents significant challenges, particularly with the largest and most sophisticated LLMs, which often boast tens or hundreds of billions of parameters. In a new paper NeMo-Aligner: Scalable Toolkit for Efficient Model Alignment, a team of researchers from Nvidia introduces NeMo-Aligne

Getty / Futurism Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks. “FoloToy has decided to temporarily suspend sales of the affected product and begin a comprehensive internal safety audit,” marketing director Hugo Wu to

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the creation of sophisticated agentic systems that utilize tools and APIs to answer user queries through function calling. However, deploying these models on edge devices remains largely unexplored due to their significant size and high computational requirements, which generally necessitate cloud-based infrastructure. In a new paper TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge, a research team fr

Getty / Futurism Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model’s ability to lie, it’s far more likely to claim that it’s self-aware. Very few serious experts think today’s AI models are conscious, but many regular people feel differently about the bots, which are designed to foster emotional connection to keep engagement up. Users across the world have reported that they think they’re talking to conscious beings trapped within AI chat

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Alilo AI / Getty Images Last month, an AI-powered teddy bear from the company FoloToy ignited alarm and controversy after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund caught it having wildly inappropriate conversations for young children, ranging from providing step-by-step instructions on how to light matches, to giving a crash course in sexual fetishes like bondage and teacher-student roleplay. The bac

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Anthropic’s chief scientist Jared Kaplan is making some grave predictions about humanity’s future with AI. The choice is ours, in his framing. For now, our fates are mostly in our hands, according to Kaplan — unless we decide to pass the proverbial baton to the machines, that is. Such a point is fast approaching, he says in a new interview with The Guardian. By 2030, Kaplan predicts, or a

Getty / Futurism From a young age, many children have been instructed by their parents to be polite to smart assistants. Particularly following the advent of Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, children are often encouraged to use words like “please” and “thank you,” with the hopes of instilling manners. But when it comes to AI assistants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, there might be some tangible benefits to being rude and even insulting them. As detailed in a yet-t

OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August. Before working at OpenAI, she was Meta’s chief ethicist, and established AI ethics policies for Instagram and Facebook, according to a story by the Financial Times. The FT’s anonymous source apparently told that paper that Bakalar specialized in “ethical approaches to model development, how humans interact with AI and debate ov

models from Hugging Face and most of the registry are in quantization Q4_K_M. Larger Russian models, such as GigaChat 3.1 Lightning, T-lite, and YandexGPT-5-Lite, didn't fit into 4 GB and are waiting for tests on a larger server. Before the measurements, I had to spend some time with the server and do four things: Swap 4 GB with vm.swappiness=10. Without it, the kernel would terminate 4B models on long texts due to memory shortage, but with swap they work,