OpenAI patched the ShadowLeak attack in August 2025 after hackers exploited ChatGPT to exfiltrate Gmail data through invisible email prompts without user interaction.

An illustration of how AI manipulates and changes images. An illustration of how AI manipulates and changes images. Ask Google's AI video tool to create a film of a time-travelling doctor who flies around in a blue British phone booth and the result, unsurprisingly, resembles Doctor Who . And if you ask OpenAI's technology to do the same, a similar thing happens. What's wrong with that, you may think?

Federal regulators investigate Tesla's Full Self-Driving technology over safety concerns, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries from traffic violations.

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Meta is adding new safeguards to its accounts for under-18 users by letting parents turn off their children's chats with AI characters. Meta is adding new safeguards to its accounts for under-18 users by letting parents turn off their children's chats with AI characters. Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.14 EDTLast modified on Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.34 EDT Parents will be able to block their children's interactions with Meta's AI character chatbots, as the tech company addresses concerns over inappropriate conversations. The social media company is adding new safeguards to its "teen accounts", which are a default setting for under-18 users, by letting parents turn off their children's chats with AI characters. These chatbots, which are created by users, are available on Facebook, Instagram and the Meta AI app.

The precarious work of training AI, which generally pays just a few dollars, has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions globally. Paris - For a generative artificial intelligence system to learn how to write an autopsy report, human workers must sort and annotate thousands of crime scene images. The precarious work of training AI, which generally pays just a few dollars, has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions stretching from Kenya to Colombia. You have to spend your whole day looking at dead bodies and crime scenes. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns that AI systems can be hacked to remove safety guardrails, comparing the technology to nuclear weapons needing global controls.

Chi Onwurah, the committee chair, has said she was disappointed in the government's response on AI and digital advertising in particular. Chi Onwurah, the committee chair, has said she was disappointed in the government's response on AI and digital advertising in particular. Failures to properly tackle online misinformation mean it is "only a matter of time" before viral content triggers a repeat of the 2024 summer riots, MPs have warned. Chi Onwurah, the chair of the Commons science and technology select committee, said ministers seemed complacent about the threat and this was putting the public at risk. The committee said it was disappointed in the government's response to its recent report warning social media companies' business models contributed to disturbances after the Southport murders .