The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
Category: AI Lab
Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements
Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?
For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.”
GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence
Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact.
Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump’s second term as president—and never published the results.
I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website
RunSybil, a startup founded by OpenAI’s first security researcher, deploys agents that probe websites for vulnerabilities—part of a new AI era for cybersecurity.