Technology

When a university professor lost two years of academic work after a single change to ChatGPT's settings, the lesson was stark. If the work matters, backups are your responsibility. ChatGPT is not an archive – and convenience is no substitute for protection.

Ads in ChatGPT aren’t the real story. Trust is. As OpenAI begins testing advertising, the challenge isn’t revenue or relevance, but whether users continue to believe the system works for them, not just for advertisers.

ChatGPT’s year-in-review feature celebrates activity, but the data tells a more interesting story. Looking past the gloss reveals patterns of thinking, iteration, and the limits of what AI can – and can’t – credibly reflect for us.

The first cyberattack executed primarily by an autonomous AI isn’t hypothetical – it has already happened. Anthropic’s investigation shows how attackers manipulated Claude into running a full espionage campaign, marking a shift in how threats emerge, operate, and scale.