Deidentification algorithms are vulnerable to the same bias and privacy issues that impact other data analytics and machine learning applications, and it can even amplify those issues by contaminating downstream applications.

The companies, products and trends that had an absolutely awful year. It's the end of another year, so it's time for the Engadget staff to compile a list of the year's biggest losers . We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made our lives worse over the course of the year. Some selections may be so pervasive they actually make our list of biggest winners. In 2025, OpenAI shed any pretense it was committed to anything more than making money. There are a few different things you could point to, including the company's successful reorganization into a more traditional profit-seeking business, but I think the most damning sign was OpenAI's response to the tragic death of Adam Raine . In August, Raine's parents sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was aware of four suicide attempts by their son before it helped him successfully plan his death.

As algorithmic decision-makers are increasingly applied to high-stakes domains, AI alignment research has evolved from a focus on universal value alignment to context-specific approaches that account for decision-maker attributes. Prior work on Decision-Maker Alignment (DMA) has explored two primary strategies: (1) classical AI methods integrating case-based reasoning, Bayesian reasoning, and naturalistic decision-making, and (2) large language model (LLM)-based methods leveraging prompt engineering. While both approaches have shown promise in limited domains such as medical triage, their generalizability to novel contexts remains underexplored. In this work, we implement a prior classical AI model and develop an LLM-based algorithmic decision-maker evaluated using a large reasoning model (GPT -5) and a non-reasoning model (GPT -4) with weighted self-consistency under a zero-shot prompting framework, as proposed in recent literature. We evaluate both approaches on a health insurance decision-making dataset annotated for three target decision-makers with varying levels of risk tolerance (0.0, 0.5, 1.0). In the experiments reported herein, classical AI and LLM-based models achieved comparable alignment with attribute-based targets, with classical AI exhibiting slightly better alignment for a moderate risk profile.

Fox News senior national correspondent Aishah Hasnie breaks down Democrats' coordinated protests against President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on'Special Report.' Conservatives on social media slammed Senate Democrats for posting videos with identical scripts ahead of President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Mashups of the identical videos, which included Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., leading the "Sh-- That Ain't True" social media campaign, have gone viral on social media. Many conservatives on social media, including Elon Musk, are asking, "Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., led the charge with their matching social media videos this morning. About two dozen Senate Democrats have since followed with their own identical posts. The video begins with a clip of Trump vowing to "bring prices down starting on day one" followed by a cut-in of the Senate Democrats saying: "Sh-- That Ain't True?

Florida is creating a "state DOGE task force" to "eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy," Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. Florida is creating a "DOGE task force" to "eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and to continue to ensure tax dollars are used in the most efficient way possible," Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. The Republican said the Sunshine State "has never been in better fiscal health," but "we always want to get better, and so we looked to see what [Elon] Musk is doing with the [Department of Government Efficiency] in Washington, D.C." "And the one thing I think that they are doing that we need to incorporate is to utilize and leverage technology like artificial intelligence to be able to police the payments and the operations and the contracts that are done in government," DeSantis continued, speaking behind a lectern with the message "Keeping Florida Efficient." "For example, we have people that review these contracts and if there is DEI, they nix it and things like that. But this is some high-powered stuff and I think would be able to provide us with some good information," he added. "We have already been doing this stuff.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media through state-level policies as Congress and the Federal Elections Commission continue to debate more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections. Campaigns on the state and federal level will be required to clearly say which political advertisements airing in Michigan were created using artificial intelligence under legislation expected to be signed in the coming days by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. It also would prohibit use of AI-generated deepfakes within 90 days of an election without a separate disclosure identifying the media as manipulated.

FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops, on'America's Newsroom.' As concerns grow over the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson is highlighting the "positive potential" but also the "negative ramifications" of AI. And Hutchinson, a former congressman who later served two terms as Arkansas governor, is urging Congress to act. Hutchinson, who announced on Sunday that he would formally launch a presidential campaign later this month, spoke in the wake of a letter signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech giants citing "profound risks to society and humanity" and called for a six-month pause to advanced AI developments. The letter asked AI developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." If the moratorium cannot be done quickly, "governments should step in and institute a moratorium," the letter added.

DataGrade CEO Joe Toscano says the danger with artificial intelligence programs is'how fast it's moving' as Elon Musk calls for a six month pause on new AI. As concerns grow over the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubts that President Biden "has the capacity to get his arms around this issue." "I don't think it's going to be an issue that he or even his ambles in this administration are going to be able to wrap their heads around," Ramaswamy said in an interview on Thursday with Fox News Digital. Ramaswamy, a multimillionaire, best-selling author and conservative political commentator who launched his GOP presidential campaign last month, spoke in the wake of a letter signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech giants that cited "profound risks to society and humanity" and called for a six-month pause to advanced AI developments. The letter asked AI developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. After HRP-1, HRP-2, HRP-3, HRP-4, and HRP-4C, Japan's AIST is finally ready to unveil HRP-5P. Looks very impressive, and we'll be getting more details at IROS next week.