I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With companies vying for user data, AI skimming it for tools, and countless bad actors seeking to exploit it, safeguarding the ...

AI prompts take many forms. Sometimes you can get better results from your large language model by trying something different. If AIs are supposed to be such magical time savers, why do we spend so ...

Generic questions get generic answers, experts say, so to avoid mediocre recommendations, you’ll need to write smarter prompts. Follow these tips. By Seth Kugel If artificial intelligence can quickly ...

The change comes after a viral video showed Meta AI prompting a user to identify the child in one of her videos. The change comes after a viral video showed Meta AI prompting a user to identify the ...

Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of ...

OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new “Persistent mode” setting to ...

Meta is expanding its vibe-coding app Pocket to all US users after testing it in Brazil last month. The app lets anyone use AI prompts to build small interactive games, called gizmos, and share them ...

Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s ...

OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, which recently crossed the 1 billion weekly user mark, the company announced today. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power this ...

James M. Dewar is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. In late 2024, artificial intelligence reached PhD-level performance on ...

When Dr. Jason Gibson began grading midterm exams for two summer history courses at Alcorn State University, he noticed a pattern that quickly became impossible to ignore. The assignment asked ...

Facepalm: Modern problems require modern solutions – according to the meme. In this case, the issue is students using AI to cheat on assignments. The solution, used to great effect by one professor, ...