Colorado Law Mandating Therapists’ Real-Time Intervention During Client-AI Psychotherapy Sets Dubious Precedent

Colorado passes a new law on AI mental health that includes a controversial provision. It puts therapists into a bind. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Heat Hit NY, NJ Ahead Of World Cup Final

New York City has been dealing with a “Code Red” due to the heat and air quality advisories from Canadian wildfire smoke days before the Spain-Argentina World Cup final.

OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated …

A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs

For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model b…

YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media

YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a …

Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs
Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t w…

An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise …

Message Screenshots Are Terrible Evidence—Courts Accept Them Anyway

A digital forensics expert on why screenshots of text messages prove almost nothing, what carrier records and backups miss and when only the smartphone can answer.

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has…

5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is Real

Metadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser.