Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

This marks OpenAI’s first response to a case that has raised wider concerns about chatbots and mental health risks. ChatGPT integrates voice mode into main interface OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT’s ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

Brace yourselves, for your cozy little conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT are about to be stuffed with ads. At least, that’s the findings of a software engineer who dug through the code of an ...

It turns out that all you need to get past an AI chatbot's guardrails is a little bit of creativity. In a study published by Icaro Lab called "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak ...

Earlier this fall, a team of security experts at the AI company Anthropic uncovered an elaborate cyber-espionage scheme. Hackers—strongly suspected by Anthropic to be working on behalf of the Chinese ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...

Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this practice is one of the most dangerous uses of the technology. Artificial intelligence ...

In April 2025, Matt and Maria Raine faced an unimaginable nightmare. Their 16-year-old son Adam tragically took his own life. As the family searched for answers, they discovered that an AI chatbot had ...

On the computer screen, a campy-looking pirate jiggles his left leg impatiently, swigging occasionally from a tumbler of rum. In front of him, dark skies pour rain above a swirling sea. The pirate ...

Recent news reports and a collection of lawsuits filed last week indicate kids aren’t the only ones at risk from ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence chatbots. According to the filings and ...

When it comes to interacting with artificial intelligence, a huge generation gap has opened up in the three years since ChatGPT debuted and sparked the current AI boom. According to a new Yahoo/YouGov ...