Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Igor Babuschkin helped build one of Silicon Valley’s top AI startups. Now he’s leaving it behind—for something even bigger. On Wednesday, Babuschkin quietly announced via a heartfelt post on X that he’s stepping away from xAI, the artificial intelligence company he co-founded with Elon Musk back in 2023. After spending […]

Image by Scott Webb on Unsplash The stories were wild. An AI threatening to leak personal secrets. Another one rewriting its own shutdown code to avoid being turned off. It all sounds like the first act of a sci-fi thriller where machines rise up against their makers. But let’s take a breath. What actually happened

Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash Google just introduced a long-awaited feature to its Gemini AI: chat personalization. It’s a step in the right direction, but let’s be honest—it’s a small step, especially when compared to what OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude have already been doing for a while. Let’s break it down. What’s

Photo by Mauro Sbicego on Unsplash There’s something a little unsettling happening in cybersecurity. The walls we’ve always counted on—firewalls, VPNs, encryption—are still standing tall. But now, the threats? They’re already inside. And sometimes, they arrive disguised as something we built ourselves. Not just some hacker in a hoodie. Not a rogue script from a

Photo by Keefikus on Unsplash What happens when one of the minds behind OpenAI sets his sights on the human brain? We might be about to find out. Sam Altman, the CEO behind OpenAI and one of the leading voices in artificial intelligence, is reportedly helping launch a new startup called Merge Labs. According to

Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash When OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week, I thought finally, one AI model to rule them all. The company promised a simpler, smarter ChatGPT experience with GPT-5 acting like a router. You’d ask a question, and the system would automatically pick the best model to answer — fast, easy, frictionless.

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Ever asked an AI assistant, “Why did you do that?” and got a confident but clearly wrong answer? Yeah, you’re not alone — but here’s the twist: the real mistake might be thinking the chatbot knows what it’s doing at all. Let’s talk about why asking AI models like

Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash For a little while, it felt like GPT-4o vanished overnight. If you’ve been using ChatGPT and noticed something felt… off, you weren’t imagining it. But here’s the good news: OpenAI just brought GPT-4o back as the default model for all paying users. And this time, they’re saying it won’t

Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Less than a week after OpenAI dropped GPT-5 into ChatGPT, the AI world is still reeling—and not in a good way. The August 7 release was supposed to be a leap forward. Instead, it’s been marked by frustration, broken workflows, and a flood of angry users asking the same question:

New research raises eyebrows as background software with deep system access could quietly sideline user control over phones and computers Photo by Franck on Unsplash Ever feel like your phone knows more about you than it should? You’re not alone. A new study just dropped a serious red flag on what researchers are calling “OS