How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots
How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas
A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds.

China's Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence has released Orca, a world model that predicts abstract world states instead of tokens or pixels. Trained on 125,000 hours of video without a single action label, Orca matches the specialized π0.5 on five robotics tasks and could…

Microsoft struggles to fulfill its 2030 sustainability promise amid
Microsoft's carbon emissions jumped 25% in FY2025 as AI data center expansion outpaced sustainability gains, despite progress in water conservation and waste reduction.