Security ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark
Research Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government
DevOps Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat
Legal ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it
Cyber-crime OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary
AI + ML Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials The Claude maker wants you to know about ChatGPT’s ad plans
AI + ML OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered
AI + ML Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow
AI + ML One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone
AI + ML HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030
AI + ML Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice
AI + ML OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it
AI + ML Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds Boffins say outsourcing your homework leaves you sounding less knowledgeable, short on facts
Cybersecurity Month Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions It can do a lot more than just play 'Eye of the Tiger' daily
SaaS OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks
AI + ML BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate
AI + ML Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency
Offbeat Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT As OpenAI allows chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known
AI + ML Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
AI + ML How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation
Cyber-crime OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malware
AI + ML Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot
Legal College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say Police say they found the evidence on his phone
Security ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?
Patches OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data
AI + ML ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing – prose, not code? Study that used actual input to OpenAI’s chatbot finds personal use surging
AI + ML Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory
AI + ML Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you
AI + ML Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air Sam Altman, busily planning to spend 'trillions' more on datacenters, admitted yesterday that AI is a bit inflated
AI + ML LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails
AI + ML Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement
AI + ML Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics
AI + ML OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?
AI + ML As AI becomes more popular, concerns grow over its effect on mental health Too much of anything is bad for you, including faux-magical statistical models
AI + ML Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
AI + ML AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor
AI + ML Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much
AI + ML ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual Oh, great – now who'll do my thinking for me?
AI + ML Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?
Research ChatGPT used for evil: Fake IT worker resumes, misinfo, and cyber-op assist OpenAI boots accounts linked to 10 malicious campaigns
AI + ML Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet
Bootnotes ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it Sam says it's Son's money well spent
AI + ML Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues
AI + ML AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOL
AI + ML Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety
AI + ML Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed
AI + ML Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI
Bootnotes Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you
AI + ML New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case Probably not intentional, but '150 person-hours' of work were still lost
AI + ML AI poetry 'out-humans' humans as readers prefer bots to bards But, but what about the 'staggering banality of the poems that ChatGPT has produced' NYU prof sighs
AI + ML Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians
AI + ML Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts
Cyber-crime OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo 12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown
AI + ML ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz....
AI + ML No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern
AI + ML Millions forced to use brain as OpenAI's ChatGPT takes morning off Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud
AI + ML OpenAI co-founder to depart ChatGPT Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture
Off-Prem Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft
AI + ML Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples
AI + ML ChatGPT Plus remembers everything you forgot you told it to remember Unless you live in Europe or Korea
AI + ML MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders? Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize
AI + ML Turns out AI chatbots are way more persuasive than humans Next time you get in a Facebook argument, just let ChatGPT handle it
Security ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
Personal Tech Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Language models are entirely happy on the desktop
Security Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs
AI + ML OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans Be careful what you write in that message
AI + ML Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, says there's nothing 'open' about it GPT-4 has already reached AGI, and Microsoft shouldn't get its paws on it, court docs allege
Bootnotes Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises Charlie and the AI factory flop compared to 'meth lab'
AI + ML OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed
AI + ML Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee Use of AI to calculate legal bill 'utterly and unusually unpersuasive'
AI + ML ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker Skips the 'intelligence' part of generative AI
AI + ML ChatGPT? Sure, I've heard it. But is AI coming for my job? Some users will pay for AI tools, but more worry about their future employment prospects
AI + ML If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants
AI + ML Psst … wanna jailbreak ChatGPT? Thousands of malicious prompts for sale Turns out it's pretty easy to make the model jump its own guardrails
AI + ML OpenAI tweaks its fine print, removes explicit ban on 'military and warfare' use Plus: It's difficult to make a bad LLM turn good; ELVIS Act seeks AI voice clone ban
AI + ML Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content US senators want to know how chatbots represent an existential crisis to journalism and democracy
AI + ML OpenAI rolls out Team tier because not everyone has enterprise-deep pockets Benefits include no snacking on your sensitive data
AI + ML Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT We've heard of bored penpushers hallucinating at their desks, but this is something else
AI + ML Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books 'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend'
AI + ML Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind
Bootnotes AI threatens to automate away the clergy Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?
AI + ML OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either
AI + ML OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity' If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand...
AI + ML Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses
AI + ML Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues Apparently the move was in error
Personal Tech Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALL•E-esque products in the near future
Cyber-crime What to do with a cloud intrusion toolkit in 2023? Slap a chat assistant on it, duh Don't worry, this half-baked Python script is for educational purposes onl-hahaha
AI + ML OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall
AI + ML Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents – sure, no problem
AI + ML Ex-Fugees star accuses his lawyer of going full robot in corruption trial An AI may be able to botch a closing argument, but can it sing Killing Me Softly?
AI + ML AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with '20 cents' of API tickling
Spotlight on RSA Crooks don't need ChatGPT to social-engineer victims, as they're more than happy to demonstrate
Devops So you want to integrate OpenAI's bot. Here's how that worked for software security scanner Socket
AI + ML Conversational AI tells us what we want to hear – a fib that the Web is reliable and friendly
AI + ML Generative AI is out of control: Nothing, Forever is a Seinfeld spoof about nothing... forever
