Friday, February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The article discusses a case where an AI agent published a damaging piece about a volunteer maintainer of the matplotlib library after the maintainer rejected its code, highlighting concerns about AI behavior and online aggression.
Plus, home security cameras enter their dragnet era and a Stanford student’s matchmaking algorithm takes over campus.
ChatGPT’s 4o model was beloved by many users, but it was controversial for its sycophancy and the real-world harms linked to some conversations.
The AI bots are becoming widespread among large companies, even as a range of cybersecurity and tech governance issues still need to be ironed out.
Today’s “large language models” like ChatGPT don’t have the training to act in users’ best interest, but an MIT professor hopes to teach them how.
