AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

• Artificial intelligences opt for nuclear weapons surprisingly oftenGalerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images Artificial intelligences opt for nuclear weapons surprisingly often Galerie Bil

Science · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 260 words
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

• The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store

Consumer Tech · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 404 words
How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?

How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?

• Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around,

Consumer Tech · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 272 words