Generative Artificial Intelligence

A man in the US was hospitalised for three weeks after replacing table salt with sodium bromide, based on advice from ChatGPT. The swap caused rare bromide poisoning, leading to paranoia, hallucinations, and serious health problems.

Elon Musk’s AI video tool, Grok Imagine, produced sexually explicit deepfake videos of Taylor Swift without being prompted for nudity. The controversy has raised legal, ethical, and regulatory concerns in the UK, especially over non-consensual content and insufficient age verification.

Elon Musk has accused Apple of favouring OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the App Store, claiming this blocks his AI app, Grok, from reaching the top spot. Apple denies any bias, while Sam Altman fired back at Musk’s claims, leading to a public clash between the two tech figures.

OpenAI’s o3 model delivered a clean sweep against Elon Musk’s Grok 4, winning 4-0 in the finals of Google’s Kaggle Game Arena AI Chess Exhibition last Thursday.

U.S. senators sound the alarm on DeepSeek, a Chinese model accused of spreading dangerous content and enabling foreign surveillance.

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After several high-profile setbacks against artificial intelligence, humans have finally defeated AI at one of the world’s most prestigious academic stages.

YouTube is updating its rules to stop paying creators who post repetitive or low-effort AI-generated videos. The goal is to promote original content with real human input and improve the overall quality of monetised videos.

OpenAI just announced that they would be shutting down their company for a whole week next week to help staff recharge and combat burnout as the AI leaders accelerated its push towards artificial general intelligence.

Chinese tech giant Baidu has made a major move in the global artificial intelligence race by open-sourcing its flagship Ernie 4.5 large language model (LLM), in what industry experts are calling the most significant public AI release from China since DeepSeek.