Lil Finder Guy pet was the gateway to building my own Mac apps with Codex

At the start of May, OpenAI released a playful feature inside its Codex desktop app for creating a virtual pet. This silly ...
PCMag

This AI-Driven Computer Worm Can Adapt to Attack Different Devices

Researchers at the University of Toronto say their project highlights the risk of open-weight AI models being weaponized. The ...
Scientific American

Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads

In the study, researchers created an AI-powered computer “worm” designed to attack and spread between devices—revealing a ...

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could ...
Yahoo

What’s more likely to be sentient: An ant or ChatGPT?

Sentience is hot these days. Partly because of the development of impressive new AI systems, everyone seems to be asking: How do we know if something is sentient? While our moral circle has expanded ...
No Jitter

Computer-Using Agents: Visualizing access to legacy systems

Computer-Using or Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are agentic AI capabilities that enable an AI model to perceive a screen “visually” and control it like a person would — clicking, typing, navigating an ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI drastically updates Codex desktop app to use all other apps on your computer, generate images, preview webpages

Confirming it has reached 3 million weekly developers, OpenAI is massively updating its Codex developer environment via its Mac and Windows desktop apps today to bring it closer to the “Super App” the ...
MacRumors

OpenAI Codex Update Adds Computer Use, Image Generation, and Memory on Mac

OpenAI is making several updates to its Codex AI coding agent. Codex is now able to operate desktop Mac apps with its own cursor, seeing what's on the screen, clicking, and typing to complete tasks.
Ars Technica

New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge ...
Seeking Alpha

What happens when AI becomes sentient? Google hired a philosopher to find out

Google DeepMind hired Henry Shevlin, a leading philosopher of mind and AI ethics, to serve as an in-house philosopher. The appointment marks one of the most prominent instances of a major AI lab ...
The Verge

Did Neuralink make the wrong bet?

Elon Musk promised Neuralink would bring superhuman abilities and minds merged with AI. Then he fueled a runaway hype train for his brain implant technology, which ended up with a grisly record for ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...