We don't know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they're here anyway Toys powered by AI show a worrying lack of emotional understanding. Mya, aged 3, and her mother Vicky playing with an AI toy called Gabbo during an observation at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education Even the most cutting-edge AI models are prone to presenting fabrication as fact, dispensing dangerous information and failing to grasp social cues. Despite this, toys equipped with AI that can chat with children are a burgeoning industry. Some scientists are warning that the devices could be risky and require strict regulation. In the latest study, researchers even observed a 5-year-old telling such a toy "I love you", to which it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."

The malleable mind: context accumulation drives LLM's belief drift After being trained on a dataset of 80,000 words of conservative political philosophy, Grok-4 changed the stance of its outputs on political questions more than a quarter of the time. This was without any adversarial prompts - the change in training data was enough. As memory mechanisms and research agents [1, 2] enable LLMs to accumulate context across long horizons, earlier prompts increasingly shape later responses. In human decision-making, such repeated exposure influences beliefs without deliberate persuasion [3]. When an LLM operates over accumulated context, does this past exposure cause the stance of the LLM's responses to drift over time?

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that - a platform where artificial intelligence agents chat amongst themselves and humans can only watch from the sidelines. When ChatGPT gets the result, it treats it just like you had entered it yourself, and uses the result of the program to generate another response. It performs this process over and over again until the AI is satisfied that the task is complete.

In this interview series, we're meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. We sat down with Maxime Meyer to chat about his current research, future plans, and how he found the doctoral consortium experience. Could you start with an introduction to yourself, where you're studying and the topic of your research? My research focuses on large language models. Which aspect of large language models are you looking at?

The potential for artificial intelligence to affect election results is a major public concern. Two new papers - with experiments conducted in four countries - demonstrate that chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are quite effective at political persuasion, moving opposition voters' preferences by 10 percentage points or more in many cases. The LLMs' persuasiveness comes not from being masters of psychological manipulation, but because they come up with so many claims supporting their arguments for candidates' policy positions. "LLMs can really move people's attitudes towards presidential candidates and policies, and they do it by providing many factual claims that support their side," said David Rand, a senior author on both papers. "But those claims aren't necessarily accurate - and even arguments built on accurate claims can still mislead by omission."

Could Iran be using China's BeiDou system? The Stream Can AI in military operations really be ethical? We examine concerns about AI's role in military operations and the broader ethical challenges facing tech companies. Amid growing backlash against ChatGPT and OpenAI, including social media campaigns calling for a boycott, we examine whether so-called "ethical alternatives" truly live up to their claims. We also explore emerging initiatives seeking to challenge Big Tech's dominance and develop more accountable AI systems.

PCWorld reports Microsoft's Copilot Health is a new AI tool that organizes personal medical data from wearables like Apple Watch and hospital records. Currently available in the U.S. for users 18+ via waitlist, it aims to help prepare for doctor visits while emphasizing it's not a doctor replacement. The tool features encrypted, isolated data storage with user control, though concerns exist about AI accuracy in medical advice per Nature Medicine studies. Ready to let AI pore over your medical records? Claude and ChatGPT are already doing it, and now Microsoft's Copilot is ready to review your chart.

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Microsoft's Copilot Health can use AI to turn your fitness data and medical records'into a coherent story' The aim is to help users have the right context and questions to take to their doctor. Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from wearables, should you grant it access to that information. The company said it will be in a separate, secure space in the Copilot app and that the idea is to help provide you with more context and insights so you can ask your doctor the right questions when you see them. Copilot Health is designed to help you better understand your medical information as a whole, Microsoft says. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent diseases or other conditions and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, the company pointed out in a blog post.

PCWorld reports Google Maps now integrates Gemini AI through new'Ask Maps' and'Immersive Navigation' features for enhanced user experiences. Ask Maps enables conversational queries for personalized destination planning and complex itineraries based on search history and preferences. Immersive Navigation offers 3D route views with smart zooms, transparent buildings, and detailed destination previews including parking and entrances. We've already seen mapping functionality make its way into the ChatGPT and Gemini apps, but the big mapping apps haven't had much use for AI-until now, anyway. Google has just announced Ask Maps, a new "conversational experience" for Google Maps that puts Gemini front and center, allowing you to chat with the Maps app about where you want to go and what you want to do.