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Last fall, a $99 plush bear named Kumma told researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group where to find pills and matches and engaged in graphic sexual conversation. The bear is sold on Amazon. It runs on OpenAI's GPT-4o. It's part of the wave
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Google announced five changes to AI Overviews on Tuesday. The most visible one is a new "Further Exploration" section at the bottom of AI-generated answers that links out to articles, case studies, and reports. The other four are smaller: a "Subscribed" label that flags content
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A reporter at 404 Media got on a Microsoft Teams call recently and watched his own face appear on someone else, in real time. The face moved when the other person moved. Lighting changes held. Expressions tracked. The software is designed and sold for impersonation scams, and it works as
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Researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive sampled the web for 33 months and found that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted. That number was zero before ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Three years to remake
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The AI data center boom has bought up enough storage to break the market for everyone else. Western Digital, one of the biggest hard drive makers, has sold out its entire 2026 enterprise inventory. Micron, the parent company of Crucial, just quit the consumer SSD market entirely. The Internet Archive
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Springer Nature pulled a meta-analysis last month that claimed ChatGPT helps students learn. The paper had been cited hundreds of times. It was a year old. The journal said discrepancies in the analysis undermined their confidence in the findings. The authors didn't respond to the journal'
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Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system used by roughly 7,000 universities and a growing slice of K-12 districts nationwide, confirmed a data breach this weekend. The extortion group ShinyHunters claims they took 3.65 terabytes of data covering 275 million students, teachers, and staff across
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If you've ever asked ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude for a second opinion on something and walked away feeling a little too validated, there's now a peer-reviewed reason for that. A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute, published in Nature this week, found that AI
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A critical Linux vulnerability called CopyFail just went public, and it is a bad one. A single script works across nearly every version of Linux to give an attacker full administrator access, no malware required. Most Linux distributions had not shipped the patch yet when the exploit code was released.