OpenAI says artificial intelligence may soon automate a significant portion of its own research process. In a new post from Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, the company outlines its “third phase,” discusses personal AGI for everyone, and warns about concentrated AI power while continuing to push toward increasingly capable systems.
President Donald Trump is pushing open source AI deeper into America’s military and intelligence infrastructure through a new national security memorandum focused on rapid AI adoption, vendor diversity, and technological dominance.
A new peer-reviewed University of Phoenix study examined how doctoral students feel about ChatGPT and AI chatbots in higher education. Researchers found students with favorable views of AI were more likely to use ChatGPT regularly, highlighting the growing disconnect between university concerns over academic integrity and the reality of modern student behavior.
Governments around the world are pushing sovereign AI initiatives to reduce dependence on foreign cloud providers and protect national data. There is just one awkward problem though. Nearly all of this supposedly independent AI infrastructure still runs on NVIDIA hardware and software. As countries build AI factories across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the global AI race increasingly looks less diversified and more dependent on a single American company.
Norton is entering the AI agent race with a new family assistant designed to organize parenting logistics across emails, calendars, school apps, and messaging platforms. While the concept may sound convenient for overwhelmed parents, the idea of an AI system deeply embedded in sensitive family communications raises serious privacy, security, and reliability concerns.
OpenAI has unveiled a new ChatGPT memory system called Dreaming that allows the AI assistant to build longer-term context about users over time. While the feature could make ChatGPT more helpful and personalized, it also raises serious questions about privacy, trust, and how much personal information people are casually handing to AI companies.
OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and other major AI and biotech leaders are now warning Congress that advanced AI systems could make biological weapons easier to create, prompting calls for mandatory DNA screening and federal oversight.
Google is pitching Gemma 4 12B as a multimodal AI model powerful enough for agentic workflows while still being lightweight enough to run locally on consumer laptops with 16GB of memory. The company’s encoder-free design could make this one of its more interesting AI releases yet.
The Looki L1 AI wearable is now available on Amazon for $249.99, combining proactive scene-adaptive intelligence, AI-generated comics, local storage, and wearable camera functionality.
Bloomberg Industry Group is betting that AI agents can help businesses track changing laws and regulations before humans even notice them. With its acquisition of Regology, the company is pushing deeper into automated compliance, raising questions about how much legal and regulatory work companies are willing to hand over to artificial intelligence.
Warner Bros, Fandango, and OpenAI are pushing ChatGPT beyond search and deeper into commerce with a new Supergirl ticketing integration. The move may look convenient on the surface, but it also raises bigger questions about AI, advertising, and the future of the open web.
Sport Clips is deploying thousands of AI agents to automate customer review responses and local marketing tasks across its franchise locations, raising fresh questions about how much human interaction businesses are willing to replace with software.