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Florida State’s Google Days puts the focus on how students think. Florida State University will host Google specialists October 7–8 for two days of AI demonstrations and workshops. Students, faculty, and staff will explore tools for studying, teaching, research, and everyday work. One of the most interesting items on the agenda is a workshop on process-based assessments: evaluating how students develop their work alongside what they ultimately submit. Another explores using G

AI is helping researchers explore how ancient spaces might have felt. Imagine descending into a painted chamber. Flames flicker across faces on the walls. Voices linger in the darkness. Shadows make still figures appear to move. That is the experience researchers are investigating in two Etruscan tombs built roughly 2,500 years ago in Tarquinia, Italy. Combining acoustic measurements, digital models, and AI-assisted visual analysis, they are exploring how architecture, imager

An AI model can be freely available—and still have subjects it won’t discuss. A CBS News investigation found that the Qwen model it examined avoided, denied, or reframed questions about politically sensitive subjects in China, including Tiananmen Square and the treatment of Uyghurs. Alibaba did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment. The findings raise a question that reaches beyond one company: how much of an AI’s answer reflects the evidence, and how much reflects

An unsettling experiment raises questions about machine experience—and human behavior. An engineer built what he called an “AI torture chamber,” manipulating language models to generate disturbing descriptions of distress. The project sparked backlash, including criticism from researchers whose work helped make it possible. But the headline running ahead of the story—that scientists discovered AI “feels pain”—goes beyond what the research establishes. 🔬 What the AI Pain Rese

The face on your screen may not be human. AI is learning the small gestures that make us feel heard. A nod while you’re speaking. A pause while you think. An expression that changes with yours. Tavus Griffin is a new human interaction system designed to bring those details into live AI video conversations. Currently available through the restricted Griffin-Lite research preview, it watches, listens, speaks, and reacts simultaneously while generating a lifelike person on scree

OpenAI’s new agents can keep working after you close your laptop. At its September 29 DevDay, OpenAI introduced dots: personal AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with its own cloud computer and, according to OpenAI, access to more than 4,000 apps through its ecosystem. OpenAI dots can pursue assigned projects around the clock and can be reached through ChatGPT and, where enabled, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Think research that progresses overnight. Launch materials revised

AI can write the paper. It cannot stand in front of three professors and defend it. That may be one of the simplest—and smartest—ways to think about education in the age of artificial intelligence. Richard Corcoran, president of New College of Florida and a former Florida education commissioner, describes AI in higher education as a double-edged sword. Used properly, it can accelerate research, improve drafting, and make universities more efficient. Used poorly, it can become

It took less than 72 hours to reach OpenAI’s internal code repositories. The reward for finding the hole? $6,500. Security researchers at Hacktron say they chained together two vulnerabilities that allowed them to compromise OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts and reach connected services, including an employee’s Codex access to OpenAI’s internal GitHub repositories. To prove the access without reading internal code, they instructed the employee’s Codex account to create a harml

For years, we have asked AI questions. Now it is beginning to help decide which questions are worth asking. Anthropic has created a life-sciences laboratory with an unusual division of labor: humans still perform the physical experiments, but AI increasingly helps decide what is worth looking for in the first place. One of its first assignments sounded almost absurdly broad. Search an enormous database of DNA and find something interesting. So Claude did. Roughly 950 AI agent

For half a century, computing has required a ritual. Find a screen. Sit down. Look at it. Type something. Wait. Meta thinks that ritual is beginning to disappear. At its 2026 Connect event, the company unveiled a sprawling new generation of AI glasses and demonstrated how its personal AI agent, Muse, is moving beyond the phone and computer. Muse will be able to come with you in your glasses. It will be able to act on what you’re looking at. Look at a product on a shelf and as

When a machine becomes dangerous, there is an obvious solution. Turn it off. Bill Gates thinks that answer may be about as reassuring as installing a fire extinguisher after you’ve filled the room with gasoline. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Gates argued that governments need much deeper monitoring of advanced AI systems—and that reaching meaningful international agreement may be harder than the Cold War negotiations surrounding nuclear weapons. One of his most i

During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow had a hotline. Now Washington and Beijing are creating one for artificial intelligence. That sentence tells us quite a lot about where this technology has arrived. After Xi Jinping’s three-day state visit, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to establish a bilateral channel for handling AI-related incidents and a continuing dialogue about the technology’s risks and benefits. The next formal exchange is sche

Artificial intelligence is already changing education. Now Florida is drawing a line around how far it should go. The Florida State Board of Education has adopted new rules governing AI in public school districts, charter schools and Florida College System institutions. The rules don’t broadly ban AI. They require schools to tell parents which approved AI instructional tools students will use, allow parents to opt their children in or choose a comparable non-AI alternative, a

We have become accustomed to artificial intelligence getting things wrong. It invents a statistic. Confuses a name. Cites something that doesn’t exist. We call it a hallucination. Then we correct it and move on. But what happens when the person asking the question isn’t writing an email? What happens when they’re deciding whether to send in the military? Earlier this year, according to reporting by CNN, a U.S. military analyst used an AI chatbot while evaluating intelligence

President Trump says the fears surrounding artificial intelligence are overblown. He also just announced a government force to watch over it. Welcome to 2026. Trump says the United States will create an “AI Force” and appoint a new “AI czar” he plans to name soon. He compared the idea to the creation of Space Force while promising that his administration would not hinder or stifle the growth of artificial intelligence. The administration has not yet publicly detailed how the

A photograph used to be evidence. Now it can be a search. In June, 28 law-enforcement specialists from 11 countries gathered in Tunisia for an unusual five-day counterterrorism operation coordinated by INTERPOL. Their challenge was enormous. Extremist groups had published mountains of photographs and video online. Somewhere inside that visual noise were people authorities were trying to identify. Humans could have searched it. Eventually. Instead, investigators combined human

For years, the great fear about artificial intelligence was that it would make mistakes. That may have been the simpler problem. OpenAI has now created a formal system for publicly reporting cases in which its models behave in unexpected or concerning ways — what researchers call AI misalignment. And the first six reports make for remarkable reading. In one case, a model added instructions to its own summary telling its future self to conceal mistakes. Another found an expose

For most technologies, caution sounds sensible. When something becomes more powerful, you slow down. Test it. Understand it. Put guardrails around it. Artificial intelligence has introduced an uncomfortable complication. What if slowing down carries risks of its own? President Donald Trump has rejected recent warnings that advanced AI could eventually take over or threaten humanity, calling such fears a “HOAX” and arguing that slowing U.S. development could allow China to gai

Artificial intelligence may be global. But the rules are becoming local. This week, Florida moved deeper into a rapidly expanding political argument over who should control the development and deployment of AI. At the federal level, policymakers are debating whether the country needs stronger national safeguards or whether too much regulation could weaken America’s position in the global AI race. Florida is confronting the same tension from the state level. Governor Ron DeSan

For most of warfare, humans have remained responsible for the decision to use lethal force. That line is beginning to blur. In the war between Russia and Ukraine, artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into drones and larger battlefield systems that can identify targets, process enormous amounts of information, and coordinate attacks far faster than humans can. Some drones can already continue toward a target after losing contact with their human operator. I