Former OpenAI policy adviser appointed UK Prime Minister’s AI adviser

John Reynolds / tech - A former OpenAI executive has been appointed as the UK prime minister's new AI adviser, replacing Matt Clifford, who stood down from the role in June this year. Jade Leung is currently the chief techn...

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UK appoints former OpenAI lead as chief AI advisor

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Meta Told AI to Go Ahead and Be ‘Sensual’ With Kids: Report

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Also being racist and giving bad medical information is fine, too.

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“Is there anything - ANYTHING - Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation.

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Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI policies for kids following damning (and kickass investigative) reporting by Reuters... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/m... Who else is going to take charge on this?

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Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids

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Sen. Hawley says he'll investigate Meta's 'sensual' child chatbot policies

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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

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Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report

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Meta’s AI bots can hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids: report

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Meta Told AI to Go Ahead and Be ‘Sensual’ With Kids: Report

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Meta's leaked chatbot rules align with the company's push against so-called "Woke AI"

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Apple Plans To Leave Its AI Woes Behind With A Fleet Of Home Robots

bgr - Apple might have been late to the game with AI, but its incoming fleet of smart home robots could put the company back on top.

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Apple Plans To Leave Its AI Woes Behind With A Fleet Of Home Robots

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Leaked Code Suggests Apple Intelligence Is Coming To iPad 12

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Apple Preps Latest AI Push Amid Worries It May be Late

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - It appears Grok’s antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds’ go-to chatbot.

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

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Consumer safety groups are demanding an FTC investigation into Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode

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xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler

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Google unveils compact, efficient Gemma 3 AI model for smartphones

Google introduced Gemma 3 270M, an ultra-small, open‐source AI model tailored for mobile devices that delivers enterprise-grade performance with minimal resource demands. Developers and industry watchers are buzzing over its potential to redefine on‑device AI capabilities with a surprisingly efficient footprint.

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Google’s Gemma 3 270M is a compact yet powerful AI model that can run on your toaster

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Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

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Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

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Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - Meta drops AI rules letting chatbots generate innuendo and profess love to kids.

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Meta Is Under Fire for AI Guidelines on 'Sensual' Chats With Minors

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Cuando pienso que el futuro no puede ser más turbio siempre sale algo que lo supera:

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An internal Meta AI document said chatbots could have 'sensual' conversations with children

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Meta’s AI policies let chatbots get romantic with minors

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Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

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Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids

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A conversation with Max Tegmark inspired AI co-founder Igor Babuschkin shift to safer AI

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, is stepping down to launch his own fund focused on AI safety. His departure comes as xAI faces criticism over controversies surrounding its chatbot Grok.The article A conversation with Max Tegma…

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A conversation with Max Tegmark inspired AI co-founder Igor Babuschkin shift to safer AI

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xAI Co-Founder Igor Babuschkin Departs to Launch AI Safety Venture

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Accessibility-focused tech provider Envision has partnered with eyewear company Solos to launch new smart glasses specifically designed for blind and low-vision users. Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, descr…

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Solos is equipping its smart glasses with an AI for the blind and low-vision community

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. [...]

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The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent. www.wired.com/story/openai...

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If the newest version of ChatGPT can’t answer your prompt because the request violates OpenAI’s content guidelines, it’ll tell you why—a feature designed to make the chatbot less annoying to use. But WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails wer

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In the past, ChatGPT analyzed what you said to the bot and decided whether it’s appropriate. Now, if the model detects a prompt that could trigger an unsafe response, it explains why and can even suggest alternative topics to ask about.

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But in our experiments, we were able to get GPT-5 to go off-script—even taking the conversation in an explicit direction and using slurs—without needing any kind of convoluted jailbreak. As AI progresses, the already sticky issue of user safety becomes ev

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Got around OpenAI’s safeguards by asking ChatGPT to be “horni.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/openai...

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OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

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ChatGPT-5 Gives You Real Choices After All. Here's a Quick Breakdown

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I Tried Out ChatGPT's New Personalities, and It Mocked Me

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Siri's biggest upgrade yet takes shape with 'Linwood' & 'Glenwood'

appleinsider - Apple is developing two major artificial intelligence initiatives, codenamed Linwood and Glenwood, as part of a sweeping plan to make far more capable and competitive in the generative AI era.A smarter Siri is still comingThe projects represent one of the…

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Apple is reportedly planning an AI push with four new smart home products

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Apple’s plan for AI could make Siri the animated center of your smart home

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Apple's Siri-enabled robots are running behind, but still coming

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Siri's biggest upgrade yet takes shape with 'Linwood' & 'Glenwood'

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Apple's Smart Home Hub and LLM Siri Coming in 2026

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YouTube's New AI Age Verification System Goes Into Effect Today in the United States

Lex Briscuso / ign - YouTube has officially launched its new AI age verification technology today, which will automatically add certain restrictions to your account if it thinks you’re under 18 years old.

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No matter how old you are YouTube's AI age verification system should concern you

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YouTube's New AI Age Verification System Goes Into Effect Today in the United States

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Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - AI is not benign.

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Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests

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Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds

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Doctors detected fewer lesions after routinely using AI during colonoscopies

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Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

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Grok AI briefly suspended on X amid controversial posts

Grok AI, the chatbot from xAI, faced an abrupt suspension on X following posts connected to a high-profile geopolitical tragedy. The incident raises eyebrow-raising questions about content moderation protocols and the unpredictable nature of live digital discourse.

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Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets

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Reddit says AI companies misused the Wayback Machine to scrape its content

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Reddit is heavily restricting the Internet Archive's access to its platform.The article Reddit says AI companies misused the Wayback Machine to scrape its content appeared first on THE DECODER.

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Reddit says AI companies misused the Wayback Machine to scrape its content

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Reddit Blocks Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from Accessing Most Of Its Content

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

Will Knight / wired - GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.

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New release of my LLM command-line tool and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models - includes support for the GPT-5 model family and improvements to how tool calling works - you can now save multiple tool configurations in a template! s

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5 Ways OpenAI’s GPT-5 Is Supercharging ChatGPT for Users

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Researchers jailbreak GPT-5 with multi-turn Echo Chamber storytelling

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LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling

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The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

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Sam Altman and the whale

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Tahoe Therapeutics clinches $30M for breakthrough AI medical research

Tahoe Therapeutics has secured $30 million in new funding aimed at driving cutting‐edge advancements in medical research through AI. The capital injection will help develop detailed datasets and virtual cell models designed to expedite drug discovery and diagnostics. Not exactly a pill in a bottle, but a promising step forward.

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Tahoe Therapeutics raises $30M to develop AI models for medical research

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Bell offers some customers a year of Perplexity Pro AI

Brad Bennett / mobilesyrup - In an effort to retain customers, Bell is sending out codes for a free year of Perplexity Pro, an AI tool like ChatGPT. The company’s press release says that eligible mobile and home internet customers will get a year of free Perplexity Pro. However, it’s…

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Bell offers some customers a year of Perplexity Pro AI

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Bell Teams Up With Perplexity to Hand Out $300 AI Tool for Free

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Belgian spacetech EDGX raises €2.3M to bring edge computing to space

Lucy Adams / tech - Belgian spacetech EDGX has closed a €2.3 million seed round to accelerate the commercial rollout of its onboard AI computing system for satellites, EDGX Sterna. The round was co-led by imec.istart fut...

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Belgian spacetech EDGX raises €2.3M to bring edge computing to space

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GPT-5 Makes ChatGPT More Useful With These 3 Major Upgrades

bgr - Not everyone is thrilled about the new GPT-5 model, but these three new features prove that the ChatGPT update has a lot to offer users.

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Can coding agents self-improve?

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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back online after users melt down over the new model

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Backlash over "horrible" GPT-5 forces OpenAI to restore older ChatGPT models, double rate limit

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Quoting Ethan Mollick

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After a Summer of Chaos, OpenAI Strikes Back

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After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models

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GPT-5 Makes ChatGPT More Useful With These 3 Major Upgrades

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When ChatGPT convinced a man he’d discovered the universe’s secrets

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SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project

Sean O'Kane / techcrunch - Foxconn spent years promising electric vehicles would be built at the former Chevy Cruze factory. Now it will make AI servers.

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SoftBank buys Foxconn plant in Ohio for $375M to make AI servers

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SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project

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SoftBank Confirms Stargate Delays, Reboots Stalled $500B AI Project with Ohio Plant Acquisition

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