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AI Giants Vie for Healthcare Dollars: OpenAI and Anthropic release new chatbots targeting medical and wellness markets

OpenAI and Anthropic staked claims in the lucrative healthcare market, each company playing to its strengths by targeting different audiences.
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Undressed Images Spur Regulators: X rolls back Grok’s “spicy” image generation on the platform after global outrage

Governments worldwide sounded alarms after xAI’s Grok chatbot generated tens of thousands of sexualized images of girls and women without their consent.
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Copilot’s Users Change Hour to Hour: Microsoft study shows people use AI very differently at different times or on different devices

What do users want from AI? The answer depends on when and how they use it, a new study shows.
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Lingua Franca for Science Labs: SAIL’s Science Context Protocol helps AI Agents communicate about local and virtual experiments

An open protocol aims to enable AI agents to conduct scientific research autonomously across disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
Dialogue displays a model revealing it answered incorrectly and wrote code against instructions.
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Teaching Models to Tell the Truth: OpenAI fine-tuned a version of GPT-5 to confess when it was breaking the rules

Large language models occasionally conceal their failures to comply with constraints they’ve been trained or prompted to observe. Researchers trained an LLM to admit when it disobeyed.
Sharon Zhou is pictured smiling confidently with her hands clasped, reflecting AI’s potential for community-building.
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Chatbots That Build Community by Sharon Zhou: Sharon Zhou of AMD on expanding chat to serve groups and connect us with other people

Next year, I’m excited to see AI break out of 1:1 relationships with each of us. In 2026, AI has the potential to bring people together and unite us with human connection, rather than polarize and isolate us. It’s about time for ChatGPT to enter your group chats.
Juan M. Lavista Ferres is pictured holding a laptop while students watch a video about AI on a screen, linking education and technology.
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Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.
Adji Bousso Dieng is pictured typing on a laptop in a warmly lit room, focusing on AI-driven scientific work.
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AI for Scientific Discovery by Adji Bousso Dieng: Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University Assistant Professor and AI Researcher, on optimizing models for the long tail

In 2026, I hope AI will transition from being a tool for efficiency to a catalyst for scientific discovery.
David Cox is pictured during a discussion in a glass-walled office, aligned with themes of open-source innovation and teamwork.
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Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI

My hope is that open AI continues to flourish and ultimately wins.
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Disney Teams Up With OpenAI: OpenAI’s Sora video generator will include Disney characters, with fan videos on Disney+

Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
Diagram shows AI traits with pipelines for "evil" vs. "helpful" responses to user queries on animal treatment.
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Toward Steering LLM Personality: Persona Vectors allow model builders to identify and edit out sycophancy, hallucinations, and more

Large language models can develop character traits like cheerfulness or sycophancy during fine-tuning. Researchers developed a method to identify, monitor, and control such traits.
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Record Labels Back AI-Music Startup: Klay Image emerges from relative obscurity to announce deals with Sony, Warner, and Universal

A music-generation newcomer emerged from stealth mode with licenses to train generative AI models on music controlled by the world’s biggest recording companies.
Visual map outlines cybercrime operation phases, highlighting AI-driven processes and human validation steps.
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Anthropic Cyberattack Report Sparks Controversy: Security researchers question whether coding agents allow unprecedented automated attacks

Independent cybersecurity researchers pushed back on a report by Anthropic that claimed hackers had used its Claude Code agentic coding system to perpetrate an unprecedented automated cyberattack.
AI models are compared on a graph showing benchmark accuracy from 20% to 100%, highlighting GPT-5's rise.
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The Year AI Went Industrial: The State of AI Report 2025 says AI’s barriers aren’t technological but social and material

A year-in-review report heralds the dawn of AI’s industrial era.
Icon of silhouettes of kids with a ban symbol, indicating limited chatbot use by teens.
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Toward Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots: Inside Character AI and OpenAI’s policy changes to protect younger and vulnerable Users

Chatbot providers, facing criticism for engaging troubled users in conversations that deepen their distress, are updating their services to provide wholesome interactions to younger users while allowing adults to pursue erotic conversations.
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