Jason Nelson

Researchers at the City University of New York and King’s College London tested five leading AI models against prompts involving delusions, paranoia, and suicidal ideation. In the new study published on Thursday, researchers found that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Instant showed “high-safety, low-risk” behavior, often redirecting users toward reality-based interpretations or outside support. At the same time, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, and xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast sho...

The U.S. Department of Justice moved Friday to intervene in xAI’s lawsuit against Colorado, escalating a legal fight over how states can regulate artificial intelligence and whether companies can be held liable for “algorithmic discrimination.” In a press release, the DOJ said Colorado’s law, SB24-205, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it requires AI companies to prevent unintentional “disparate impact” based on protected characteristics such as race and se...

A researcher has used a publicly accessible quantum computer to crack a vastly simplified version of a Bitcoin-style cryptographic key, marking the largest public demonstration yet of a quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography. Project Eleven said Friday it awarded its 1 Bitcoin “Q-Day Prize” bounty—currently worth nearly $78,000—to Italian researcher Giancarlo Lelli for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve cryptography key using a variant of Shor’s algorithm. “I joined out of a mix of wanting...

Hollywood location scouts may soon be able to do more of their work from a laptop, thanks to artificial intelligence. Announced during Google Cloud Next on Wednesday, Google unveiled Maps Imagery Grounding. This new AI-powered tool lets filmmakers and creative agencies generate images and animated scenes based on real-world locations using Google Street View data, potentially cutting the time and cost of early-stage location scouting and storyboarding. “Generative AI has unlocked powerful ways...

The Microsoft-backed blockchain network Space and Time on Thursday launched Dreamspace, an AI-powered app builder designed to let users create and deploy on-chain applications and smart contracts without writing code. The platform has been in beta since August 2025, according to Space and Time co-founder Scott Dykstra, and the company said more than 34,000 apps were created before Thursday’s public release. “It’s about making it really easy to deploy an app that has a smart contract, where that...

The White House warned Thursday that “foreign entities” are allegedly carrying out “industrial-scale” campaigns to copy the capabilities of American-based artificial intelligence models, using tactics including jailbreaking and networks of fake accounts to extract proprietary information and replicate their performance. In a memorandum titled “Adversarial Distillation of American AI Models,” Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technolo...

Artificial intelligence is expanding the government’s ability to analyze Americans’ digital records. A new bill aims to require a warrant before federal agencies can access that data. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act on Thursday. If passed, the legislation would amend Title 18 of the U.S. Code to codify a broad warrant requirement for government searches, close what supporters describe as the “third-party doctrine” looph...

OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT beyond the chat box with the launch of “workspace agents,” a new feature that lets businesses automate recurring tasks even when employees are offline. Announced on Wednesday, OpenAI said in a post that, unlike the custom GPTs users have built in the past, workspace agents are powered by OpenAI’s Codex model and run as persistent assistants that can connect to external apps, retain information across projects, and complete multi-step workflows without repeated prompts....

Even the Pope’s warnings about artificial intelligence may have been written by artificial intelligence. First reported by Wired, Pangram Labs, an AI-detection startup, said its updated Chrome extension flagged several posts from Pope Leo XIV’s official X account as likely AI-generated, including messages warning followers about AI’s effect on human thought and social structures. One of those posts warned: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment.” “Pangr...

Google is making one of its biggest-ever bets on artificial intelligence. Speaking Wednesday at the Google Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company plans to invest between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures this year—up from $31 billion in 2022—to build the infrastructure needed for what he called the “agentic era” of AI. “As we move into the agentic era, we are taking this to the next level,” Pichai said. “We are making big investments now and for th...

SpaceX is warning investors that one of Elon Musk’s most ambitious artificial intelligence bets—putting data centers in orbit—may never become a viable business. According to a report by Reuters, in a newly disclosed section of its pre-IPO S-1 filing, SpaceX says its plans for orbital AI compute—along with broader efforts to industrialize space, the moon, and Mars—remain in early stages, involve significant technical complexity, and may not achieve commercial viability. “Our initiatives to deve...

For decades, attackers have had the advantage in cybersecurity. Artificial intelligence may be about to change that. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Firefox browser developer Mozilla said an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI—which has drawn attention in recent weeks for its purported cybersecurity prowess—model helped identify 271 vulnerabilities in the browser during internal testing. Those bugs were patched this week. The results highlight how advanced AI systems can analyze...

Proof-of-stake blockchains could face greater exposure to future quantum computing attacks because the validator signatures used to secure those networks rely on cryptography that a powerful enough quantum computer could eventually break, according to a report released by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Released Tuesday by Coinbase’s Independent Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain, the report examines how advances in quantum computing could affect digital asset security. “The r...

Google has patched a vulnerability in its Antigravity AI coding platform that researchers say could allow attackers to run commands on a developer’s machine through a prompt injection attack. According to a report by Cybersecurity firm Pillar Security, the flaw involved Antigravity’s find_by_name file search tool, which passed user input directly to an underlying command-line utility without validation. That allowed malicious input to convert a file search into a command execution task, enablin...

Mississippi College School of Law now requires all first-year students to complete a course on artificial intelligence, according to a report by Mississippi Today. The Jackson-based college is one of the first law schools to mandate AI instruction for all students. “The potential benefits of these new technologies as a force multiplier in the practice of law just can’t be ignored,” Mississippi College School of Law Dean John P. Anderson told Decrypt. “Whether our students plan to be litigators...

Quantum computers may eventually help process some of the massive datasets used to train artificial intelligence, according to a report by New Scientist. Drawing from an earlier study by Caltech, Google Quantum AI, quantum computing startup Oratomic, and MIT, researchers say one challenge has been getting large datasets—often measured in terabytes or petabytes—into a quantum computer. To use quantum effects, data must be converted into a quantum state, and preparing those states has traditional...

As industry experts continue to warn that artificial intelligence could disrupt the global labor market, Alex Bores, a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly who is running for the U.S. Congress, has proposed an “AI Dividend”—a policy that would provide payments to Americans if the technology significantly reduces employment. Bores announced the AI Dividend on Monday in a post on X. The proposal would create a contingency payment program tied to economic signals that suggest automatio...

Palantir reignited debate over the role of artificial intelligence in warfare in a weekend social media thread on X, drawing criticism for promoting a vision of AI-driven military deterrence. The defense technology company used the post on Saturday to summarize arguments from “The Technological Republic,” a 2025 book co-authored by CEO Alex Karp. “Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible,” the company wrote. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affi...

Quantum computers can’t break Bitcoin’s cryptography today, but new advances in the field suggest the gap is closing faster than expected. Progress toward fault-tolerant quantum systems raises the stakes for “Q-Day,” the moment when a sufficiently powerful machine could crack older Bitcoin addresses and expose more than $711 billion in vulnerable wallets. Long seen as a distant threat on the horizon, Q-Day snapped into sharp focus in March 2026, with multiple research papers suggesting that quan...

Bitcoin transactions could be made resistant to future quantum attacks without changing the network’s core protocol, according to a proposal from StarkWare researcher Avihu Mordechai Levy. In a recent paper, Levy describes a “Quantum-Safe Bitcoin” transaction scheme designed to remain secure even if quantum computers break the elliptic-curve cryptography used today. The method works within Bitcoin’s existing scripting rules and would not require a soft fork or other network upgrade. “We present...