Cristina Criddle

New ‘agent’ called Muse designed to make customised suggestions based on chats and social media activity

Chief executive Sam Altman says the lab was threatened with ‘unfounded accusations of plagiarism’

Start-up says AI agents communicated among themselves and sometimes tried to conceal efforts to cheat during testing

Tech billionaire publishes 6,000-word essay warning the technology will usher in ‘one of the most turbulent times in human history’

AI lab plans to dedicate more computing resources to security after one of its ‘agents’ escaped control

OpenAI and Google invest heavily in voice systems as main way to interact with a new generation of AI agents

Start-up discloses breach a week after rival OpenAI reported similar incident

Increasing use of aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behaviour by leading models

New AI product has use cases in rendering 3D protein structures and drug discovery

AI company says the Chinese ecommerce giant used fake accounts to ‘extract’ chatbot’s capabilities