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‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-19 23:20:16

At this point, most people know that chatbots are capable of hallucinating responses, making up sources, and spitting out misinformation. But chatbots can lie in more human-like ways, “scheming” to hide their true goals and deceiving the humans who have given them instructions. New research from OpenAI and Apollo Research seems to have figured out ways to tamp down some of these lies, but the fact that it is happening at all should probably give users pause. At the core of the issue with AI int

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Pasta Sauce Physics, Eating Teflon, and Drunk Bats: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate the Joy of Offbeat Science

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-20 07:41:25

The 2025 Nobel Prizes will be announced in early October. But if you’re like me, a science aficionado with an insatiable desire for ridiculous, intelligent research, yesterday’s parody of the prestigious prize may be of more interest. I am talking, of course, about the 35th Ig Nobel Prizes—an annual ceremony highlighting the weirdest research across all scientific disciplines. As always, the 10 prizes were selected by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine and presented by “a gaggle of bemu

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OpenAI's $4 GPT Go plan may expand to more regions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:30:00

OpenAI released $4 GPT Go in August, but it was limited to just India. Now, OpenAI is expanding GPT Go to include new regions. OpenAI could bring GPT Go to regions like Indonesia in the coming weeks. If you live in Indonesia or India, you'll see a nudge to try GPT Go when you're using a free account. Source: BleepingComputer OpenAI might bring GPT Go to the United States in future because the product price pages already includes references to USD. GPT Go includes pricing in EUR (€4), USD ($

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Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 07:15:53

CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now. We hope that you will participate with us in researching and developing this new medium of cataloging design history. If you like what we're doing, please consider donating using the link above to further support our research.

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OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-21 15:54:20

Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run and it went amok, calling security on people, and insisting it was human. This week, it was OpenAI’s turn to raise our collective eyebrows. OpenAI released on Monday some research that explained how it’s stopping AI models from “scheming.” It’s a prac

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Jaguar Smashes Record for the Species’ Longest Recorded Swim, Baffling Scientists

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-22 19:12:47

Despite what they say about cats and water, jaguars are powerful swimmers. These predators rarely stray from the rivers and wetlands that permeate their rainforest habitat, and they readily dive in to hunt for prey. Usually, these dips are relatively brief: Until now, the farthest jaguar swim on record was just 656 feet (200 meters). But now, scientists have observed a jaguar in Brazil smashing that record as if they were a feline Michael Phelps, with the big cat seemingly paddling for more tha

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SystemBC malware turns infected VPS systems into proxy highway

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 23:35:53

The operators of the SystemBC proxy botnet are hunting for vulnerable commercial virtual private servers (VPS) and maintain an average of 1,500 bots every day that provide a highway for malicious traffic. Compromised servers are located all over the world and have at least one unpatched critical vulnerability, some of them being plagued by tens of security issues. SystemBC has been around since at least 2019 and has been used by various threat actors, including several ransomware gangs, to del

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The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-23 07:10:00

Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team in California says it used AI to propose new genetic codes for viruses—and managed to get several of them to replicate and kill bacteria. The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially engineered cells. But experts believe it is also an “impressive first step” toward AI-designed l

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CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 14:33:07

About CircuitHub CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid , a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production. The result? A 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries. We've raised $20M from top-tier investors, including Y Combinator and Google Ventures ,

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New study will track 40,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-24 17:56:00

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Garmin and King's College London are studying pregnancy. It could help understand exercise's role during pregnancy. It aims to reduce gestational diabetes and hypertension. Research institutions are increasingly using wearable gadgets to carry out their health studies. On Tuesday, Garmin announced a collaboration with King's College London for its Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supp

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AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-09-24 19:00:00

pressureUA/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming. Anti-scheming training reduced misbehavior in some models. Models know they're being tested, which complicates results. New joint safety testing from UK-based nonprofit Apollo Research and OpenAI set out to reduce secretive behaviors like scheming in AI models. What researchers found could complicate promising ap

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New study will track 60,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-25 03:56:41

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Garmin and King's College London are studying pregnancy. It could help understand exercise's role during pregnancy. It aims to reduce gestational diabetes and hypertension. Research institutions are increasingly using wearable gadgets to carry out their health studies. On Tuesday, Garmin announced a collaboration with King's College London for its Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supp

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Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:30:47

In brief Researchers studied single-celled algae, called diatoms, from the Arctic that were previously assumed to be hibernating in the ice and found they were actually quite active. This activity, which continued when temperatures dropped to -15 C, is the coldest-ever movement recorded for a eukaryotic cell. The diatoms move through a type of gliding, which is enabled by a combination of mucus and molecular motors that are similar to systems seen in human muscles. Given how abundant these di

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Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 03:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 08:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 03:30:23

Image by Getty / Futurism Devices Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you'd use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid in the healing process. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Device, the team came up with the unusual device to skip the need for prefabricating complex bone implants. In experiments involving rabbits, the researchers created 3D-printed grafts on th

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Yearly applications now open to Apple’s Security Research Device Program

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-30 19:09:35

For the past few years, Apple has been inviting experienced researchers to apply to its security program, which issues iPhones that are especially modified to make it easier to investigate vulnerabilities. Now, applications are open to next year’s program. Here’s how you can apply. This year’s application period ends October 31 This is how Apple describes its Security Research Device Program: “The Security Research Device (SRD) is a specially fused iPhone that allows you to perform iOS securi

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Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-01 15:30:49

Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be some of the weirdest. But they certainly exist, and to provide more solid proof, physicists have finally created a time crystal we can actually see. In a recent Nature Materials paper, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder presented a new time crystal design: a glass cell filled with liquid crystals—rod-shaped molecules stuck in strange limbo between solid

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Scientists Infuse Cement With Bacteria to Create Living Energy Device

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-03 19:31:44

Microbes are known for their remarkable survival abilities. And now, scientists have discovered another remarkable trait: Turning cement into an electricity storage device. In a study published September 9 in Cell Reports Physical Science, researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark describe how they seeded a bacteria called Shewanella oneidensis into cement. These particular bacteria are known to be good at transferring electrons across surfaces, and the researchers wondered if they could act

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Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-05 11:30:11

There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Murati’s research lab gave the world its first look into one of its projects: creating AI models with reproducible responses. The research blog post, titled “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference,” tries to unpack the root cause of what introduces randomness i

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Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-05 15:05:30

Scientists know that microbial life can survive under some extreme conditions—including, hopefully, harsh Martian weather. But new research suggests that one particular microbe, an algal species found in Arctic ice, isn’t as immobile as it was previously believed. They’re surprisingly active, gliding across—and even within—their frigid stomping grounds. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published September 9, researchers explained that ice diatoms—single-celled algae wi

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Astronomers Just Found a Record-Breaking Space Explosion That Makes No Sense

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 07:05:45

If you’ve been following Gizmodo’s astrophysics coverage, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: Scientists study a cosmic phenomenon and start to get a handle on it—then something shows up that completely upends their understanding. The latest example? It’s explosive. Literally. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe. Generally, GRBs last from milliseconds to several minutes. Scientists believe they emerge when massive stars explode in supernovas or get ripped apa

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This Bizarre Fish Has 8 Rows of Forehead Teeth It Uses During Sex

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-08 19:55:29

Spotted ratfish are scaleless, rabbit-faced deep-sea fish, about two feet (61 centimeters) long, and native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. As if that wasn’t a strange enough description, these distant shark cousins also feature teeth on their foreheads. While a number of marine animals, such as sharks, rays, and whale sharks, have external tooth-like structures called denticles, it turns out the spotted ratfish’s toothy features are straight-up true teeth, as true as the ones in your mouth.

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Meta Whistleblowers Allege Company Buried Info on Child Safety

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-08 23:45:27

Whistleblowers allege Meta has suppressed research on risks for young children involving virtual reality devices and apps, including information about child predators, according to a new report from the Washington Post. The newspaper reports that Congress has received thousands of pages of documents related to Meta’s virtual reality programs, with four researchers coming forward to discuss their experiences with the company. Two of the researchers currently work for Meta, and two are former emp

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Some Heart Attacks Might Be Triggered by Germs

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-10 11:30:27

Germs might be even worse for us than we thought. New research suggests that certain infections could be a contributing factor to heart attacks. Scientists in Finland and the UK conducted the study, which examined arterial plaques taken from people who died from heart disease and others. They found these plaques often contained a dormant layer of bacterial biofilm; they also found evidence that bacteria released from this biofilm can then trigger heart attacks. Though not yet definitive, the st

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Meta curbed research about VR safety risks to kids, whistleblowers say

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-10 23:08:23

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new group of whistleblowers are coming forward to allege that Meta is restricting research into how its virtual reality offerings could negatively impact kids and teens, The Washington Post r

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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

technologyreview.com Julia R. Greer 2025-10-11 23:45:00

Inspired by the 1945 report “Science: The Endless Frontier,” authored by Vannevar Bush at the request of President Truman, the US government began a long-standing tradition of investing in basic research. These investments have paid steady dividends across many scientific domains—from nuclear energy to lasers, and from medical technologies to artificial intelligence. Trained in fundamental research, generations of students have emerged from university labs with the knowledge and skills necessary

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-11 20:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-10-11 19:00:00

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests t

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Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-11 14:00:25

A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It's also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate. Placed over the chest, the "smart" gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood flow that're undetectable to the human ear, while also performing a quick electrocardiogram, or ECG, which is a test that gauges your heart's electrical activity. Then, all that info is packaged and sent "securely" to the c

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Latest Tech News

‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans

Pasta Sauce Physics, Eating Teflon, and Drunk Bats: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate the Joy of Offbeat Science

OpenAI's $4 GPT Go plan may expand to more regions

Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now

OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

Jaguar Smashes Record for the Species’ Longest Recorded Swim, Baffling Scientists

SystemBC malware turns infected VPS systems into proxy highway

The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry

CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)

New study will track 40,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

New study will track 60,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

Yearly applications now open to Apple’s Security Research Device Program

Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See

Scientists Infuse Cement With Bacteria to Create Living Energy Device

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice

Astronomers Just Found a Record-Breaking Space Explosion That Makes No Sense

This Bizarre Fish Has 8 Rows of Forehead Teeth It Uses During Sex

Meta Whistleblowers Allege Company Buried Info on Child Safety

Some Heart Attacks Might Be Triggered by Germs

Meta curbed research about VR safety risks to kids, whistleblowers say

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

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