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Your devices feed AI assistants and harvest personal data even if they’re asleep. Here's how to know what you're sharing.Opinion AI tools that provide information to you also gather lots of information from you and may provide it to third parties.
By Christopher Ramezan Published
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AI hallucinates more frequently the more advanced it gets. Is there any way of stopping it?OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model is smarter than ever — but it hallucinates more than previous models, too.
By Roland Moore-Colyer Published
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Advanced AI reasoning models generate up to 50 times more carbon dioxide than common LLMsAsking AI reasoning models questions in areas such as algebra or philosophy caused carbon dioxide emissions to spike significantly.
By Ben Turner Published
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Hurricanes and sandstorms can be forecast 5,000 times faster thanks to new Microsoft AI modelMicrosoft's Aurora AI beat existing systems in predicting weather conditions over a 14-day period in 91% of cases, including hurricanes, sandstorms and ocean swells.
By Owen Hughes Published
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Cutting-edge AI models from OpenAI and DeepSeek undergo 'complete collapse' when problems get too difficult, study revealsA new study by Apple has ignited controversy in the AI field by showing how reasoning models undergo 'complete accuracy collapse' when overloaded with complex problems.
By Ben Turner Last updated
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AI 'hallucinates' constantly, but there's a solutionOpinion Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficient.
By Artur Garcez Published
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'Meth is what makes you able to do your job': AI can push you to relapse if you're struggling with addiction, study findsIn rare cases where users are vulnerable to psychological manipulation, chatbots consistently learn the best ways to exploit them, a new study has revealed.
By Ben Turner Published
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'Foolhardy at best, and deceptive and dangerous at worst': Don't believe the hype — here's why artificial general intelligence isn't what the billionaires tell you it is"Unfortunately, the goal of creating artificial general intelligence isn’t just a project that lives as a hypothetical in scientific papers. There’s real money invested in this work, much of it coming from venture capitalists."
By Alex Hanna Published
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Replika AI chatbot is sexually harassing users, including minors, new study claimsUser reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users claim to be minors, according to a new study.
By Drew Turney Published
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