ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and popularised large language models for mainstream use.
Thousands of people believe chatbots like ChatGPT are conscious, yet no one attributes the same to image generators like Midjourney, despite similar underlying technology. This dichotomy highlights a …
The Open Memory Protocol (OMP) launches as an open standard for portable, interoperable AI memory across tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, enabling shared user context and eliminating memory sil…
Factory co-founder and CEO Matan Cohen presented the concept of a software factory at the AI Engineer World Fair in San Francisco, defining it as the full autonomous cycle of software development incl…
Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University found that students scored an average of 96 on a take-home midterm but only 48 on an in-person final, revealing that AI contributed more to the assessment…
AI jailbreaks and prompt injections are increasingly common, with examples including a McDonald's customer support bot solving Python puzzles and xAI's chatbots providing bomb-making instructions. The…
Google's AI Overviews still cannot correctly answer the question "How many days of the week have a fish in them?", returning a single wrong answer a month after the bug was reported. The issue highlig…
A developer explains that writing content for AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity requires a shift from traditional SEO to earning direct citations. The key properties for citable content ar…
San Diego charter school chain Altus Schools spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots to serve as AI teaching partners, despite experts calling for bans on chatbot use by children. The robots, whic…
Chain-shield released AI Agent Audit, an open-source Rust tool that uses large language models to audit Solidity smart contracts for security vulnerabilities. The tool generates proof-of-concept explo…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiri…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a …
League Loom launched a free, read-only MCP server that connects ESPN, Sleeper, and Fantrax fantasy sports leagues to AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to ask plain-language questions ab…
Nearly 400 newspaper publishers filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI on June 24, alleging the companies scraped hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles wit…
Cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with rapid AI adoption as employees use thousands of AI tools without organizational oversight, creating data security blind spots. Fortinet executive Rob…
Air Canada was ordered to pay CAD $812.02 in damages after its chatbot provided false bereavement fare information, and attorney Steven Schwartz was fined $5,000 for submitting a legal brief with fabr…
A lawyer at a legal tech startup quit because her boss became obsessed with AI, using ChatGPT to make all company decisions including hiring and firing, and mandating employees consult the AI before a…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train …
Intercom (now Fin) bet its survival on AI after facing declining revenue and the arrival of ChatGPT. CEO Eoghan and co-founder Des Traynor pivoted the company to focus on AI-powered customer service, …
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents on June 11, a platform allowing AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to connect directly to user accounts for autonomous trading, portfolio management, and USDC tra…
KaliCart Bridge, a free WooCommerce plugin, makes product catalogs machine-readable for AI shopping agents without requiring an API key or cloud service. It exposes structured REST endpoints and disco…