The company said it ended up retiring the “nerdy” personality entirely, but the issue remained, forcing it to create a ...

More than 500 Ethereum wallets, many inactive for years, were drained in a coordinated attack that resulted in approximately ...

Every message has a hidden structure, and the mathematics of uncertainty determines exactly how much it can shrink. This is ...

The Department of Defense announced Friday an agreement with seven major technology companies to use their artificial ...

Six months ago, the AI sector was looking pretty bubbly. Companies were plowing hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it ...

Sam Altman suggested it would be released more widely than a rival offering from Anthropic. Some are suggesting it’s because ...

References to goblins and gremlins spiked with the release of GPT-5.1’s ‘Nerdy’ personality, and then spread to other models.

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

For at least a year, some ChatGPT users have noticed the LLM’s quirky habit of bringing up goblins, gremlins, trolls, and other creatures in its answers. The weird tic apparently became more common as ...

The announcement of GPT-5.5-Cyber follows Anthropic’s debut of its own Mythos AI, which the company said has already ...

In early 2026, email threats increased with a rise in credential phishing, QR code phishing, and CAPTCHA-gated campaigns, ...

The May 1 Wordle (#1777) answer, 'PLUME', proved easier than recent puzzles but showed how opener choice shapes difficulty. Players using starters like SLATE cut possible answers quickly, while others ...