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- Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flawsby Benj Edwards on January 12, 2026 at 9:47 pm
AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.
- ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things upby Benj Edwards on January 8, 2026 at 6:00 pm
New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.
- ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continuesby Dan Goodin on January 8, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
- The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrinby Dan Goodin on January 5, 2026 at 9:42 pm
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
- Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025by Dan Goodin on December 31, 2025 at 1:15 pm
The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.
- From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025by Benj Edwards on December 31, 2025 at 12:00 pm
In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.
- Condé Nast user database reportedly breached, Ars unaffectedby Ken Fisher on December 30, 2025 at 6:45 pm
A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about.
- GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix itby Sarah Scoles/Undark on December 29, 2025 at 3:10 pm
GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.
- How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use themby Benj Edwards on December 24, 2025 at 12:00 pm
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here’s what makes them tick.
- OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easyby Benj Edwards on December 17, 2025 at 10:22 pm
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.
- Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversationsby Dan Goodin on December 17, 2025 at 3:25 pm
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.
- Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI contentby Benj Edwards on December 15, 2025 at 10:41 pm
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.
- Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havocby Dan Goodin on December 15, 2025 at 9:15 pm
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.
- Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcyby Rafe Rosner-Uddin in San Francisco on December 15, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
- OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itselfby Benj Edwards on December 12, 2025 at 10:16 pm
“The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex,” OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alertby Benj Edwards on December 11, 2025 at 9:27 pm
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
- Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Soraby Benj Edwards on December 11, 2025 at 4:43 pm
Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.
- Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spendingby Rafe Rosner-Uddin on December 11, 2025 at 2:39 pm
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
- A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary optionsby Benj Edwards on December 10, 2025 at 8:38 pm
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
- Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logoby Cyrus Farivar on December 10, 2025 at 12:32 pm
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.


























