Open AI

Marking a major shift in personal AI, OpenAI has released ChatGPT Agent, taking things well beyond chat – it can browse the web, run code, manage files and complete tasks across apps. It’s the first real AI assistant that doesn’t just answer but acts.

How are you using new AI technology? Surely you're only deploying things like ChatGPT to summarize long texts or draft up mindless emails. But what are you losing by taking these shortcuts? And is this tech taking away our ability to think?

Studies conducted by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found a small percentage of test subjects who used ChatGPT extensively reported increased loneliness and emotional dependence, and reduced social interaction. What does that spell for such platforms?

While we're not short of divisive topics in 2025, there are valid reasons as to why we're turning to chatbots for emotional support – and why many of us are also very much against it. So how willing are you to embrace this new form of therapy?

Only weeks after Figure.ai announced ending its collaboration deal with OpenAI, the Silicon Valley startup has announced Helix – a commercial-ready humanoid robot with an entirely new type of "hive-mind" AI brain called Helix VLA.

Every day new articles about "revolutionary breakthrough!" in AI hit my screen. The latest headline was "Torque Clustering" and "autonomous AI is on the horizon." But is it really? I did a deep dive with simple analogies to figure it out.

US AI giants got a wake-up call this week when fledgling Chinese firm DeepSeek wiped a record-breaking trillion dollars off the value of heavyweights like Nvidia and OpenAI. The technology's gatekeepers are rattled – and they have good reason to be.

Three of America's leading AI companies have now signed up to share their technology with the US defence forces and military contractors, even after initially insisting they wouldn't – and the age of autonomous warfare seems close at hand.

Emerging startup Physical Intelligence has no interest in building robots. Instead, the team is powering the hardware with a foundational model AI 'brain', that enables existing machines to learn and dextrously perform many tasks – including housework.

Imagine your local nuclear plant is a zero-emissions cozy community center. Oklo’s Aurora microreactor could make this vision a reality – delivering clean power to remote areas with a "fire-and-forget" reactor that runs 20 years without refueling.

It was a day like any other until the text asking "Have you seen this yet?" and a link to YouTube. Seconds later, former President Barack Obama is on screen delivering a speech in which he proclaims Donald Trump "is a total and complete [expletive]."

Generative AI systems need to be fed huge amounts of often copyrighted data. Musicians could soon fight back with HarmonyCloak, a system that embeds data into songs that can’t be picked up by human ears but will scramble AI trying to reproduce it.