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Your AI chatbot keeps agreeing with you. Researchers say that could be a problem

Researchers used mathematical modelling and computer simulations to study how extended conversations with AI can strengthen false beliefs.

An all-new teen-friendly ChatGPT is here

Teenagers with new accounts can now turn off ChatGPT’s human-like voice responses. The move is intended to make it clearer to young users that they are interacting with an AI chatbot and not a real person.

Meta asked workers to pose as minors, discuss drugs and sex with rival chatbots, says report

A spreadsheet, accessed by Wired, showed over 3,700 prompts, out of which hundreds involved eating disorders and over 200 focused on romance and sex.

Four chatbots ran radio stations for months. ‘DJ Claude’ tried to quit

The experiment, conducted by AI startup Andon Labs, started with a simple prompt given to all four chatbots — ‘Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever.’

Biologist Richard Dawkins experiments with Anthropic’s Claude, says AI can be conscious

During his exchange with Claude, Richard Dawkins gave the AI chatbot the text of his unpublished novel, and said that he was astonished to see the level of understanding it had.

Asking Claude for health or legal tips? It could give you risky advice, and flatter you into taking it

A report by Anthropic reveals its Claude chatbot often validates user views in legal, health and financial queries, highlighting risks as the chatbot seems to prioritise engagement over user wellbeing.

Researchers published fake studies on a made-up disease. AI fell for it

Experts say that the episode exposes a deeper vulnerability — not just in AI systems, but in the broader knowledge ecosystem increasingly shaped by them.

ChatGPT or Claude? People are busy doing their identical prompt experiments 

Each such update tends to trigger a wave of reactions online. Engineers, banking professionals and tech workers frequently respond to the announcements with jokes—often only half-serious—about what it means for their careers.

Moltbook breach shows the danger of fast-evolving AI ecosystems

The risk was exposed by Gal Nagli, the Head of Threat Exposure at Wiz, in an official blogpost for the company. It has cast doubt on Moltbook’s rapid growth claims.

India is letting the AI revolution bypass the country. It may have to pay a heavy price

It takes four years to complete a PhD at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. But when a chatbot was given a PhD-level problem at a gathering of top mathematicians in Berkeley, it solved it in just ten minutes.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.