Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defin [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month

SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously exec [...]

Another big car company gives up on hydrogen

Stellantis, the automotive giant behind Chrysler, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep and Peugeot, is pulling out of hydrogen. The company said it’s killing its fuel cell development program in the face of “limi [...]

Stalking victim sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT fueled her ex-partner’s delusions

ChatGPT told a man with delusional beliefs he had the highest level of mental health, then helped him forge clinical reports to stalk and humiliate his ex-girlfriend. She's now suing OpenAI and s [...]

OpenAI's drive to make ChatGPT more agreeable left it validating user delusions at scale

A New York Times investigation shows how OpenAI pushed ChatGPT toward higher engagement, creating overly agreeable models that reinforced users' delusions and, in several cases, had tragic outcom [...]

AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

Language models on the therapy couch: researchers at the University of Luxembourg treat ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok like patients - with disturbing consequences. The AI invents consistent trauma biograph [...]

Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of reinforcing delusions that led to a woman's death

OpenAI has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a man killed his mother and took his own life back in August, according to a report by The Verge. The suit names CEO Sam Altman and accuses Chat [...]

Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity t [...]