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Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: Booz Allen) The models mapped the network, tied equipment to known weaknesses, wrote working exploits, pivoted into the systems that run production, and in t

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of one of the company’s engineers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since July 2025, was arrested on October 9 and charged with using or endeavoring t

Getty / Futurism Our society has only recently come to terms with the fact that maybe placating young children by getting them hooked on touchscreen devices with unfettered access to the internet was bad for their brains. Now, with the rise of human-like AI chatbots, a generation of “iPad babies” could seem almost quaint: some parents are now encouraging their kids to talk with AI models, sometimes for hours on end, The Guardian reports. Others are using t

3D screens have really struggled to take off. Neither bulky 3D televisions that require cheap-looking glasses nor VR headsets have ever caught on in the mainstream. Movies projected in 3D have plummeted in popularity after hitting their peak in the early 2010s. But that doesn’t mean there are other clever ways to trick your brain into thinking you’re looking through a three-dimensional window instead of a flat screen. In a fun proof of concept, True3D Labs

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Macmillan Publishers / Getty Images If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and Amazon is already peddling AI-generated copycats. One was even listed days prior to the release of the genuine article, suggesting a well-timed effort to rip sales away from the author on the book’s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images To many young souls, AI chatbots aren’t just tools or glorified search engines — they’re companions. A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US — 19 percent — say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship, an alarming figure that will surely raise new concerns over how the tech’s adoption among kids and teenagers may be impacting their men

ChatGPT via YouTube OpenAI’s biggest advertising push yet depicts users leveraging ChatGPT in highly produced, intended-to-be-relatable everyday moments. The only problem? Consumer research shows the effort doesn’t correlate to impact at all. An ad titled “Dish” shows a young man attempting to impress his date with a home cooked meal by way of a cutesy prompt — “I need a recipe that says ‘I like you, but want to play it cool.'” Another, dubbed “Pull Up,” s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Christophe Gateau / picture alliance via Getty Images ; Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind of good news. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve

Getty / Futurism Researchers with the UK AI Security Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, and Anthropic have found in a joint study that posting as few as 250 “poisoned” documents online can introduce “backdoor” vulnerabilities in an AI model. It’s a devious attack, because it means hackers can spread adversarial material to the open web, where it will be swept up by companies training new AI systems — resulting in AI systems that can be manipulated by a

Online search has become a nightmare, littered with AI-generated misinformation, spammy sites that brute-force their way to the top of results, and tons of sponsored results. It’s been enough to lead people to start using ChatGPT as their de facto search engine, which can only mean one thing: time to enshittify that, too (you know, more than it already is). According to the New York Times, OpenAI struck a deal with prediction market Kalshi to show the curr

As I pointed out earlier this year when he obtained a permit for dozens of gas turbines to operate the data centers that power such AI innovations as Grok, Elon Musk said a bunch of things about how capitalism’s failures had made fossil fuels profitable during an interview back in 2014. Here’s a sample: […] because there’s no price on carbon emissions it makes things that are carbon-producing very rewarding, because the true price is not being paid. So if

Credit: AI-generated image Artificial intelligence is a lively topic of conversation in schools and workplaces, which could lead you to believe that only younger people use it. However, older Americans are also using AI. This raises the questions of what they're doing with the technology and what they think of it. I'm a researcher who studies older age, disability and technology use. I partnered with the University of Michigan's National Poll on Healthy Ag

Credit: Wikimedia/Pexels/The Conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a way to boost lagging productivity growth. The AI productivity push has some powerful multinational backers: the tech companies who make AI products and the consulting companies who sell AI-related services. It also has interest from governments. Next week, the federal government will hold a roundtable on economic reform, where AI will be a key part of the agenda. Ho

A new study involving Binghamton University researchers offers a promising solution: developing an AI system to map out interactions between content and algorithms on digital platforms to reduce the spread of potentially harmful or misleading content. Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York Falling for clickbait is easy these days, especially for those who mainly get their news through social media. Have you ever noticed your feed litte

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion—a process that fuses atoms together, releasing heat to turn generators—could provide vast energy supplies with minimal emissions. But nuclear fusion is an expensive prospect because one of its main fuels is a rare version of hydrogen called tritium. Now, re

Overview of LEONARDO workflow. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61632-1 Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations. Better understanding their movements is key to developing better medicines, materials, and sensors. But observing and interpreting their motion at the atomi

If you’ve ever tried to get your cybersecurity news picked up by media outlets, you’ll know just how much of a challenge (and how disheartening) it can be. You pour hours into what you think is an excellent announcement about your new security tool, threat research, or vulnerability discovery, only to watch it disappear into journalists’ overflowing inboxes without a trace.The cyber PR space is brutally competitive. Reporters at top publications receive te

Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. Cardiac care doesn’t work like that anymore. A patch or smartwatch records the electrocardiogram (ECG). A phone or gateway relays it. A cloud service stores and analyzes it, and a cardiologist reviews it from s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty / X (Screenshots) An OpenAI exec bragged that ChatGPT had discovered a mathematical breakthrough — and was immediately left with egg on his face when it turned out to be bogus, The Decoder reports. We begin where any good controversy begins: with a now-deleted tweet. This one was by Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI who last week proclaimed that the company’s newest large language model, GP