2025 marked a major shift for AI as it became a helpful, proactive partner, capable of reasoning and navigating the world. As models grow even more sophisticate...

Overview Meta has patented a hypothetical large language model LLM that would continue posting for and as you long after you die. The patent, granted in late D...

Background Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has been under investigation in several countries—including France, California, the UK, India, and Brazil—for allegedl...

Context An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my r...

Background X’s offices in Paris were raided by French and European investigators at the beginning of February as part of a wide‑ranging investigation into X’s...

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations g...

Retraction On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an articlehttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-...

Retraction On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did n...

In Brief Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departu...

Overview An upcoming biopic about the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, titled Killing Satoshi, stars Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson. The film...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Full Story > “I’ve had an extremely weird few days…” — Scott Shambaugh, commercial space entrepreneur, engineer,...