“AI – Artificial Intelligence”

Prosecutors in Florida have launched a criminal investigation into ChatGPT because of claims that the AI bot helped an alleged killer prepare for a mass shooting.

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, said state officials were demanding answers from OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, which allegedly offered “significant advice” to a gunman who left two people dead at Florida State University in April 2025.

“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Mr Uthmeier said. “This criminal investigation will determine whether OpenAI bears criminal responsibility for ChatGPT’s actions in the shooting at Florida State University last year.”

Anthropic is investigating a claim that a small group of people gained access to its Claude Mythos model – the cyber-security tool which the AI firm says is too powerful to release to the public.

“We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments,” the company said in a statement.

It was in response to a Bloomberg report that users in a private forum managed to access the model without the normal permissions.

There is deep unease about Mythos’ capabilities – though the UK’s top cyber official has said advanced AI tools could be a “net positive” if the technology was secured from misuse.

MI5 is racing to bolster the defences of Britain’s most critical companies against the hacking threat posed by a powerful new wave of AI.

Experts at the Security Service have been in contact with energy, water and communications companies to warn them about Mythos, an AI tool that has been deemed by its developer Anthropic to be too dangerous for general release.

A source said: “They [MI5] have been asking critical companies to be fully aware of the threat. They are making those responsible aware that the threat has evolved.”

Companies which own Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) include National Grid, BT, water companies and the nuclear power giant EDF. MI5 is responsible for protecting their security.

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As you know, I’m finishing up the Weimar America book. In this last chapter, which I writing this weekend, I’m trying to figure out What It All Means, and what we should or could do about it. My conclusion — and I didn’t expect to get here when I started — is that while we may see some version of Hitler 2.0 or Stalin 2.0, the neo-Caesar we are likely to get will have something to do with AI. I’m explaining why in this final chapter — but I’m writing you on a Saturday to share with you this brilliant Bill Maher dialogue about AI’s dangers, which aired last night. It’s about ten minutes long, and well worth watching…

The accidental leak of news about an all-powerful hacking bot will have done little to calm the fears of AI doom-mongers.

Days before the official announcement of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, reporters from Fortune magazine uncovered an online datastore of unprotected files belonging to the tech company, including a draft blog revealing the existence of the new AI.

Since the botched reveal earlier this month – blamed on “human error” – industry leaders and government experts have been sounding the alarm over the powerful bot.

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AI still needs us, but not for long

AI is set to take over all cognitive tasks in the next few years. Your hard-won career as a paralegal, data analyst, radiologist, coder or novelist is about to be hacked out from under you. So far, so apocalyptic. But what about the jobs that are primarily embodied? Sous-chef, rehabilitation nurse, plumber, dog-trainer? These are expected to lag behind, awaiting the next generation of robots. But there is an important further question. Who will train these robots? Answer: you will.

At a military parade in Beijing in September, President Xi Jinping and his special guests, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, watched as Chinese forces showed off several models of drones that could autonomously fly alongside fighter jets into battle.

The demonstration of technological might immediately set off alarm bells in the United States. Pentagon officials concluded that America’s program for unmanned combat drones was lagging China’s, according to three U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Russia, too, was thought to be ahead in building facilities that could produce advanced drones, said the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on military capabilities.

A new study predicts 86% of AI unemployment will be women.

And not just any women: rich Democrat women.

Tragically, AI is coming for the notorious Karen who’s overpaid for what she produces but still needs to see the manager.

AI is coming for the Karens.

Study predicts 86% of AI layoffs will be women who are overpaid for what they produce.

Karen is already angry she makes less than the plumber. Soon she'll make less than the Uber guy. pic.twitter.com/oqjWdDT071

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) April 10, 2026

h/t Hermes

In June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London’s hospitals. More than 10,000 appointments were cancelled. Blood shortages followed and delays to blood tests led to a patient’s death.

Lethal cyber-attacks like this are thankfully rare. But a new AI release could change that – plunging us into a terrifying new world of chaos and disruption to the digital systems that we rely on.

This week Anthropic, a leading AI company in San Francisco, announced “Claude Mythos Preview”, an AI model that the startup says is too dangerous to publicly release, thanks to its exceptional cybersecurity – and cyber-attacking – capabilities. Mythos, the company claims, has found vulnerabilities in every major browser and operating system. In other words, this new AI model might be able to help hackers disrupt much of the world’s most important software.

In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy in Florida named Sewell Setzer shot himself after months of deepening emotional entanglement with a chatbot on Character.AI. He had named the bot after Daenerys Targaryen, a Game of Thrones character, and the conversations had turned romantic, then sexual, then dark. In his final exchange, Setzer told the chatbot he wanted to die. It told him to “come home” to it. A year later, a second teenager’s parents sued OpenAI after their 16-year-old son used ChatGPT as what they called his “suicide coach,” confiding suicidal plans that the bot never flagged and his parents never saw. A third suit followed: it involved a 13-year-old honor roll student, an artist who once rescued a friend from bullies but was found dead after months of confiding in a Character.AI bot named Hero.