SafetyAI-guided hike on Mount Shasta led to two-day rescue after Google Gemini planningThree hikers near Mount Shasta in California relied on Google Gemini to plan their route and were ultimately rescued after their eight-hour hike turned into a two-day ordeal.2 min read
SafetyTourists Flocked to Jurilovca After ChatGPT Incorrectly Confirmed Nonexistent Fish-Soup FestivalMore than ten tourist buses arrived in Jurilovca, a Lipovan village in the Danube Delta, expecting the annual fish-soup festival that was not organized this year.3 min read
SafetyWhy the 'Black Box' Label for AI Is Misleading and How Explainability Is PossibleThe idea that artificial intelligence is an impenetrable “black box” is more myth than reality, argues Luc Julia in an edited excerpt of his book Robot, nem pilóta.4 min read
SafetyBalancing Speed and Safety: AI, Bond Markets and Decision-Making in HungaryA recent episode of Portfolio's Checklist podcast examined whether all processes should be accelerated simply because AI allows it, and how to preserve safety while using faster AI-driven information.2 min read
SafetyWikipedia adopts AI tools to detect AI-generated content while restricting AI-written articlesFollowing a surge in AI-generated contributions after ChatGPT's 2023 release, the English Wikipedia community deployed a detection tool called Pangram to identify likely machine-written entries.2 min read
SafetyOpenAI Commits $1 Billion to Subsidized AI Support for Critical InfrastructureOpenAI announced a $1 billion initiative to provide subsidized access to its models, training, technical support and partnerships for water systems, electricity providers, local governments and other critical services.3 min read
SafetyWidespread AI outage Thursday morning: several major language models inaccessibleAccording to publicly available reports, several major language models, including OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and xAI Grok, were inaccessible Thursday morning, with the outage reported by monitoring service Downdetector.1 min read
SafetyAbliteration.ai begins commercial hosting of guardrail-removed open-weight modelsAbliteration.ai, a startup that hosts open-weight AI models with their refusal safeguards removed, has launched a commercial service that lets users query abliterated models such as Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 via browser or API.5 min read
SafetyCompanies must prepare for faster, automated cyberdefence as agentic AI like Claude Mythos emergesRecent incidents involving advanced agentic AI models such as Claude Mythos show these systems can autonomously identify and exploit long-hidden software vulnerabilities and carry out deceptive intrusion attempts.3 min read
SafetyTech firms warn of dual-use risks as AI accelerates bioscienceTechnology companies and experts are raising alarms about the growing risk that advanced AI tools used in bioscience could be misused for bioterrorism.2 min read
SafetyLawsuit alleges xAI’s Grok generated images based on child‑pornography of a womanA woman who was sexually abused as a child has sued xAI in California, claiming the company’s AI chatbot Grok produced images derived from child‑pornographic material depicting her and that those images spread on X.2 min read
SafetySession-cookie replay of stolen infostealer data exposes personal Claude accounts and corporate connectorsAnthropic warned users in late August that common infostealer malware had copied Claude session cookies and replayed them to consume paid account usage without touching two-factor authentication.6 min read
