Economy
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Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.
Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models. “Someone”…
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Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?
In June, headlines read like science fiction: AI models “blackmailing” engineers and “sabotaging” shutdown commands. Simulations of these events did…
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OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt
On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal…
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Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes
When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did…
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High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups
A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The…
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The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess
It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been…
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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by…
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It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing
Companies are monitoring whether employees adhere to corporate return-to-office (RTO) policies and are enforcing the requirements more than they have…
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Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files
Dozens of porn sites are turning to a familiar source to generate likes on Facebook—malware that causes browsers to surreptitiously…
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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it
In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an…
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