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AI could consume up to 3% of world's electricity the UN warnsOpinion AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds.
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'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training dataScientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data.
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OpenAI's internal AI model just solved an 80-year-old math problem — and mathematicians verified itThe closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.
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AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.Opinion Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.
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Can AI really simulate human thinking? Research casts doubt on an influential study, suggesting an advanced model was just really good at memorizing patterns.Analysis A study published in July 2025 claimed the Centaur AI model could simulate and predict human behavior with astonishing accuracy. A counter study raises doubts.
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How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they've found the answer.Researchers have found that introducing human-made data into AI training can help to prevent AI model collapse.
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AI chatbots are turbocharging violence against women and girls: We urgently need to regulate themOpinion AI chatbots normalize sexual violence, initiate unwanted sexual conversations and offer personalized stalking advice because of how they're designed. Their makers need to be held accountable.
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AI self-replication hacks 'no longer purely theoretical,' study finds — but experts say it's too soon to panicAnalysis Researchers say AI models can now replicate themselves across vulnerable systems, but experts warn the real threat is not rogue machine intelligence but cybercriminals weaponizing AI agents.
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'Feuding tech bros' go head to head in legal showdown. But what does it mean for the future of AI?Elon Musk and Sam Altman battle it out in court, and the outcome could carry significant ramifications for how AI development is shaped.
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