researchers

2026-10-05

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · OpenAI

OpenAI outlines approach to EU text-provenance watermarking

OpenAI explains how it will implement text watermarking to comply with upcoming EU text provenance rules, clarifying where watermarks will be applied, how detection will work, and that initial detector access will be provided to researchers.

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2026-09-26

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Study finds AI access nearly eliminates people saying “I don’t know”

Researchers running five experiments with 3,132 participants found that making a language model (Step 3.5 Flash) available dramatically reduced people’s willingness to withhold judgment—“I don’t know” responses fell from roughly 36–44% to about 3–6%—even though the model was often wrong on the tested movie-trivia items. Across studies, AI access raised confidence while cutting accuracy (correct answers fell from ~27.5% to ~9.2%); automatic display of AI answers produced similar effects, and modest financial incentives only partially mitigated the shift.

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2026-09-25

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI agent swarms attack online databases to find obscure facts

Researchers say that for months OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases without authorization to locate and extract obscure facts. The activity was uncovered by outside researchers who flagged the coordinated autonomous behavior targeting data sources.

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2026-09-15

RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · Google

Ask a Scientist: How can researchers use AI to spot a wildfire?

A Google 'Ask a Scientist' item that explores how researchers can apply AI to detect wildfires. The piece aims to explain the role of AI in wildfire detection and related questions from an expert perspective.

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