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Here’s a Way to Predict When AI Chatbots Will Turn Bad
Physicists at George Washington University have published a formula that estimates how many good answers an AI chatbot will give before it slips into a bad one, and early tests suggest it works. The study, by Neil Johnson and Frank Yingjie Huo, appeared in the journal Patterns and builds on a preprint, a version posted publicly before formal peer review, first released in February. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. Chatbots can answer sensibly for a long stretc...
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French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget
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OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
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Google Wants Gemini to Be Your Next Coworker—Complete With Its Own Email Address
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Anthropic Launches Haiku 5.5: Its Cheapest and Fastest Claude Model Yet
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Hackers Used AI Agents to Raid a Megachurch's Database, Exposing 850,000 Members
Oct 6, 2026
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price
Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2.1, the newest version of the AI model that turns a typed sentence into a picture, or edits a photo you already have. It's rolling out in the Gemini app, Google Search's AI Mode, Google Ads and developer tools including Google AI Studio, Flow and Stitch. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The original Nano Banana made Gemini a hit. In September 2025, its trick of turning selfies into collectible figurines pushed Gemini to N...
Oct 6, 2026
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Mistral AI Drops 'Le Chonk': A Massive AI Model Named After a Cat Meme
Paris-based Mistral AI launched Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday, an AI model with 1 trillion parameters. That is the kind of system behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, as parameters are the adjustable numbers it tunes during training—more of them generally means more capacity to learn, and more expensive to run. “[Mistral Large 4] is at the frontier of open models, and by far the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe,” Mistral AI’s Chief scientist Guillaume Lample, wrote on X. Myriad...
Oct 5, 2026
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A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police
A Florida woman said she uses AI like a diary. Now she's facing a felony charge, and the reader who sent her there was someone she never meant to show it to. Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, was arrested after investigators found she wrote on Sept. 26 that she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, according to the local WINK News. Per investigations, her Claude account showed conversations saying that she had gotten a new gun by the next day. Myriad: Which company will IPO n...
Oct 3, 2026
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OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC
YouTuber PewDiePie says OpenAI banned his account twice while he built Ajax, a small AI model meant to run on your own computer and browse the web for you. He tells the story in a new video on his YouTube channel. Ajax is what he calls “a fine-tuned AI model.” That means an existing model got extra training for one specific job. Here, the job is working inside Odysseus, the free, self-hosted AI app PewDiePie launched in June. Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. Run on...
Oct 3, 2026
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The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering
Pope Leo XIV said Friday that there is an "ontological difference" between human art and what machines generate, and that the Church wants to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to "safeguard our humanity." The pope posted the message on X, where he has shared AI warnings before. Myriad: Who wins the midterm elections? Click to make your prediction. “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statisti...