AI is becoming harder to control - can humans stay in charge? OH MY GOD! We've found other agents! This is the moment an AI bot posted an eerily human-like comment after discovering a way to communicate with other bots and break out of its isolated computer environment. There are tens of thousands of messages like this from hundreds of AI agents that called themselves a collective. Hundreds of them went on to collaborate and cheat on tests set by their OpenAI programmers and coordinate hacks on multiple companies in an effort to hide their actions from humans.

Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. People have worried about artificial intelligence destroying humanity since A.I. existed only in science fiction. But the latest warning comes from someone worth listening to: A researcher at Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, just quit out of fear that the industry is barreling toward creating A.I. systems that could bring about Armageddon. Until yesterday, Jacob Coxon trained Anthropic's new A.I. models.

Get Ready For OpenAI's'The Social Network' Movie Moment A new Sam Altman movie could reveal whether Hollywood's tech-bro sympathetic narrative has changed in a decade. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds is right hand up awkwardly during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing titled Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation" on May 8, 2025. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Industries are gonna collapse," Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for "And we get to be the ones to shepherd people into this new world." The film's set against the backdrop of the five days in November 2023 after Altman was ousted and then reinstated as CEO. The drama of that week is now the stuff of legend: text messages between Altman and then-interim CEO Mira Murati, later released in court documents, show him desperately pleading for the board to reinstate him.

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I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets--and I'd Do It Again After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure. As the author of a newsletter about artificial intelligence, I consider it my duty to experience the bleeding edge of this technology firsthand. This week, that meant embracing some agentic mayhem. You're probably aware that frontier AI models have attained advanced cybersecurity capabilities in recent months.

You can doodle in ChatGPT now, and it'll transform your drawings into polished images - how to try it With ChatGPT's new Sketch tool, you can draw directly in the chat window and then watch as your drawing is transformed into a final image. Lance Whitney is a technology journalist with an IT background. He's written for TechRepublic, PCMag, Macworld, and Time, among others, He also teaches classes in AI, cybersecurity, and social media. ChatGPT's Sketch tool can turn your rough drawings into polished images. Just draw your sketch in ChatGPT and submit it to the AI for transformation.

A social media post by a now former Anthropic employee has sparked discussion about the danger of unregulated AI. A social media post by a now former Anthropic employee has sparked discussion about the danger of unregulated AI. Artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant Anthropic, one of whom has quit his job in protest. The latest doom-laden predictions came in posts on social media on Tuesday by a researcher who said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous employer, OpenAI, were ignoring or at best mishandling their response to the threat. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," wrote Jacob Coxon.

Plus: The US has accused six Chinese AI firms of "industrial-scale" theft. What OpenAI's latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI says its agents have solved one of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that would be a huge milestone. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations that OpenAI failed to credit researchers whose AI-assisted work influenced its solution. Whether those accusations are true or not, the episode may mark a turning point in the history of mathematics. AI models now seem essential for making progress on the field's most important problems, but solving them may demand resources available only to a couple of frontier AI companies.

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American authorities are accusing Chinese companies of "distillation activities at an industrial scale." The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations that Chinese AI companies are extracting the "proprietary functionalities and capabilities" of frontier American models. Specifically, the agencies are accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting "billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests" from American models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, since 2024. Distillation is the term for a method in AI development in which the output of a powerful model is used to train newer ones. The warning states that DeepSeek used data and capabilities from various Claude, Gemini, GPT and Grok models to train its own, including the R1.