Foreign propagandists continue using ChatGPT in influence campaigns

Chinese propaganda and social engineering operations have been using ChatGPT to create posts, comments and drive engagement at home and abroad. OpenAI said it has recently disrupted four Chinese cover [...]

What if the real risk of AI isn’t deepfakes — but daily whispers?

Most people don’t appreciate the profound threat that AI will soon pose to human agency. A common refrain is that “AI is just a tool,” and like any tool, its benefits and dangers depend on how p [...]

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, [...]

Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math

Instead of sensing photons and processing the results, why not process the photons? [...]

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

Tech investors and AI firms are launching a US political network to influence AI legislation

A coalition of tech investors and AI companies is launching a US political action network called "Leading the Future" to influence AI legislation.<br /> The article Tech investors and [...]

Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters

Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and politi [...]

A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligen [...]

Anthropic discovers "functional emotions" in Claude that influence its behavior

Anthropic's research team has discovered emotion-like representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that can drive the model to blackmail and code fraud under pressure.<br /> The article Anthropic d [...]