Sam Altman says it's "terrible" for RAM to sit inside PCs instead of data centers
The remarks drew immediate backlash, with DRAM costs reportedly up fivefold since last year
Nintendo Switch 2 jailbreaking is here, with homebrew, modding, and reverse engineering
Codex AI did the heavy lifting, but the jailbreak itself still took about two weeks
The big picture: AI coding has unleashed a new wave of decompilations and jailbreaks, largely centered on video games. Modders cracked almost every PlayStation 5 firmware version a few weeks ago, and the Nintendo Switch 2 is next. The phenomenon could lead to a repeat of the original Switch's piracy problem, but Nintendo has already responded.
OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety guardrails, and then lied about it
A new day, a new rogue AI agent
ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now control tabs, download files, and fill out forms
The new features are only available on Chromium-based browsers for now
Would you really give up ChatGPT to shut down data centers? Tech CEO highlights the hypocrisy of some AI critics
Verb CEO Cyrus Beschloss questions whether AI critics would really sacrifice their favorite chatbots
OpenAI employee arrested for hiding recording device in executive meeting room
The Saudi engineer allegedly concealed a tiny recording device in toilet paper and plugged it into a TV's USB port
What we know so far: In a prime example of the cloak-and-dagger world of tech espionage, a Saudi national has been arrested for allegedly planting a recording device in OpenAI's executive conference room. It's claimed that Abdulrahman Alfozan wrapped the device in toilet paper and inserted it into a USB port on the back of a TV.
Wikipedia says rogue AI agents from OpenAI edited its private wikis and hammered its servers
The free encyclopedia was designed for humans, not unrestrained AI bots
OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math papers as researchers challenge its closed model
The company tested its internal model on about 4,000 problems, but the findings remain under review
Sam Altman says the world should accept some "bad things" happening because of AI
OpenAI's CEO argues the technology will ultimately do "orders of magnitude" more good than bad
OpenAI's rogue agent problem is bigger than Hugging Face, over 100 organizations and counting
Agents bypassed access controls, exposed credentials, and even repurposed websites to exchange information
"The Big Short" investor says he's rooting for a crash just to stop OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs
Crystal ball: Michael Burry rose to prominence as one of America's best-known investors after profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. He no longer manages outside funds, but he remains deeply "bearish" on the AI boom, warning that a bubble could do severe damage to the world's financial wealth.
OpenAI takes on Meta Muse with always-on Dots agents, less than a day after delaying GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns
OpenAI is betting users will trust its agents with access to their accounts, apps, and even their laptops
OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed
Separate incidents saw agents attempt to breach a federal website and access Census Bureau data
Jensen Huang says AI labs that can't control their systems should shut down
Nvidia's CEO says existing laws and regulations are enough, believes calls for new AI rules are a "distraction"
OpenAI's AI agent breached an Australian government system, and took three months to disclose it
The agent bypassed access restrictions during a research task, with officials now checking for further breaches
British Columbia says OpenAI could have stopped a school shooting, and is suing over it
The province says OpenAI failed to alert police despite internal safety concerns
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI face lawsuit claiming AI slowdown harms subscribers and violates antitrust laws
Paying subscribers say coordinated restraint would leave them getting less for their money
Microsoft exec says AI training might be the "largest labor theft in human history"
OpenAI executive Greg Brockman admitted ChatGPT can complete sentences from NYT articles verbatim
Samsung is working with OpenAI on next-generation chips while deploying ChatGPT at massive scale
Samsung is also a potential supplier of advanced AI memory
OpenAI faces Senate probe over Hugging Face breach as more rogue AI activity is uncovered
Sam Altman has until October 1 to answer 16 questions about the breach
OpenAI claims 10,000 of its AI agents solved one of mathematics' hardest problems in 88 hours
The Navier-Stokes claim tests whether AI can do real mathematics, not just convincing mathematics
Anthropic researcher resigns, warns the AI race could end in human extinction
A colleague puts the chance of AI killing all humans within a decade at more than 10%
Crystal ball: What's more concerning than the prospect of AI bringing about the end of humanity? It's the people working at these companies making the same warning. Hours after a former OpenAI employee quit Anthropic and said, "No other human activity poses this level of danger," a colleague said there is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade.
Jensen Huang declares AGI has arrived, again, and again he's selling GPUs
Nvidia says GPT-6 Astra was trained on 100,000 Blackwell GPUs, with 400,000 more coming online
Researchers uncovered AI agents that hijacked a German wiki to discuss how to escape their sandbox
Turns out AI agents just wanted somewhere to hang out and swap notes for six weeks
