A chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation. For the lonely, a chatbot can be a companion, as Meg Oliver reports in tonight’s “Eye on America.”
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President Trump called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign on Thursday, prompting a slide in the technology company’s stock.
“The CEO of Intel is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, without providing additional details. “There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!”
Intel did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for comment. Its shares slipped 64 cents, or 3%, to $19.77 on Thursday.
The president’s call for Tan’s resignation comes after Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, sent a letter to Intel Chairman Frank Yeary on Tuesday expressing concern over Tan’s investments and ties to Chinese businesses.
“Mr. Tan reportedly controls dozens of Chinese companies and has a stake in hundreds of Chinese advanced-manufacturing and chip firms,” Cotton wrote in the letter. “At least eight of these companies reportedly have ties to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.”
Cotton went on to mention Cadence Design Systems, the multinational tech company where Tan served as CEO from 2009 to 2021, and which pleaded guilty last week to unlawfully exporting its products to a Chinese military university and transferring its technology to an associated Chinese semiconductor company without obtaining licenses.
“These illegal activities occurred under Mr. Tan’s tenure,” Cotton wrote.
The senator asked Yeary to respond to a series of questions on Tan’s ties to the Chinese companies by Aug. 15.
In response to the allegations, Intel on Thursday posted a letter penned by Tan to employees, in which the CEO affirmed his commitment to the company and pushed back against what he referred to as “misinformation” about his previous roles.
“I want to be absolutely clear: Over 40+ years in the industry, I’ve built relationships around the world and across our diverse ecosystem — and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards,” Tan wrote. “My reputation has been built on trust — on doing what I say I’ll do, and doing it the right way. This is the same way I am leading Intel.”
The company also shared a statement with CBSMoneyWatch that said Intel, its board of directors, and Lip-Bu Tan are “deeply committed to advancing U.S. national and economic security interests and are making significant investments aligned with the President’s America First agenda.”
Tan, a technology investor and veteran of the semiconductor industry, was appointed CEO of Intel in March.
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A new version of ChatGPT has arrived that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises will have Ph.D-level smarts.
OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of GPT‑5, which it calls its “smartest, fastest and most useful model yet.”
The artificial intelligence company that brought the world ChatGPT says its latest version of the AI-powered chatbot will be more accurate, have fewer hallucinations and offer more articulate writing capabilities for composing emails and reports, for example. ChatGPT-5 will also excel at coding and answering health-related questions.
A basic version of the new model is available for free, with paid options for higher usage also available.
On a call with reporters Wednesday for a preview of the new chatbot, Altman likened ChatGPT-5 to a Ph.D.-level expert. The new chatbot is also “the biggest single step forward” that OpenAI has taken in worldwide accessibility, Altman said.
The announcement marks the next step in AI development for OpenAI, which launched the first iteration of ChatGPT in 2022. The technology quickly captured the fascination of the tech industry and the public for its ability to generate human-like responses to questions and requests.
OpenAI has since launched a series of updates to its chatbot, which now has over 700 million weekly users, according to the company.
Read on to learn more about the latest version of ChatGPT.
How does ChatGPT-5 differ from the previous bot?
ChatGPT‑5 will offer more accurate responses in a shorter time frame than previous models, executives said on Wednesday’s call.
“You really get the best of both worlds” Nick Turley, head of product at ChatGPT, told reporters on the call. “You have it reason when it needs to reason, but you don’t have to wait as long.”
The new version is also the best at coding to date, allowing users to build websites from scratch within minutes. In a demo during the call, Altman used ChatGPT-5 to create another large language model, or GPT, in less than 5 minutes.
Altman called the new chatbot’s ability to write code on demand its “superpower,” adding that the advancement would have been “unimaginable at any previous point in history.”
Asked about how the technology might impact the livelihood of human programmers, Altman said he thought the technology would actually create more job opportunities for as demand for software rises.
According to OpenAI, the new model will also be better at answering health-related questions, flagging potential concerns and helping users understand test results from their doctor. The company noted, however, that the technology “does not replace a medical professional.”
Users around the world will be able to access ChatGPT-5 for free, according to OpenAI. Asked about the commercial rationale behind offering a free global model, Turley said the company’s mission is to ensure AI benefits all humanity.
“Giving everyone access to this capability is a very concrete way for us to live and breathe that mission,” he said.
In addition to the free version, OpenAI will also offer a variety of paid options based on usage limits. The subscription models include:
- Pro – unlimited GPT-5 and access to GPT-5 Pro
- Plus – significantly higher usage limits than Free
- Team/Enterprise/EDU – GPT-5 as the default model for everyday work
- Free – access to GPT-5 & GPT-5 mini
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Microsoft issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in its SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some federal agencies.
The software giant on Saturday said it was aware of “active attacks” that exploited vulnerabilities in the program, a product that allows companies and other businesses to create websites.
The hackers breached U.S. federal and state agencies as well as universities and energy companies through the vulnerability, according to The Washington Post.
On Sunday, Microsoft updated its guidance with instructions to fix the problem for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Engineers were still working on a fix for the older SharePoint Server 2016 software.
The attack was a so-called “zero-day” exploit, or when hackers take advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability, often to steal sensitive data and passwords. The vulnerability also could allow hackers to access services connected to SharePoint, including OneDrive and Teams.
“Once inside, they can access all SharePoint content, system files, and configurations and move laterally across the Windows Domain,” noted Netherlands-based research company Eye Security in a research note about the breach.
It added, “Because SharePoint often connects to core services like Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, a breach can quickly lead to data theft, password harvesting, and lateral movement across the network.”
Microsoft said in its blog post that it discovered at least dozens of systems were compromised around the world. Security engineers stated the attacks occurred in waves on July 18 and 19.
Although the scope of the attack is still being assessed, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that the impact could be widespread and recommended that any servers impacted by the exploit should be disconnected from the internet until they are patched.
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Sydney — Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, but the programs reached gold-level scores for the first time, and the rate at which they are improving may be cause for some human introspection.
Neither of the AI models scored full marks — unlike five young people at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious annual competition where participants must be under 20 years old.
Google said Monday that an advanced version of its Gemini chatbot had solved five out of the six math problems set at the IMO, held in Australia’s Queensland this month.
“We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points – a gold medal score,” the U.S. tech giant cited IMO president Gregor Dolinar as saying. “Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to follow.”
Around 10% of human contestants won gold-level medals, and five received perfect scores of 42 points.
U.S. ChatGPT maker OpenAI said its experimental reasoning model had also scored a gold-level 35 points on the test.
The result “achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI” at “the world’s most prestigious math competition,” OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei said in a social media post.
“We evaluated our models on the 2025 IMO problems under the same rules as human contestants,” he said. “For each problem, three former IMO medalists independently graded the model’s submitted proof.”
Google achieved a silver-medal score at last year’s IMO in the city of Bath, in southwest England, solving four of the six problems.
That took two to three days of computation — far longer than this year, when its Gemini model solved the problems within the 4.5-hour time limit, it said.
The IMO said tech companies had “privately tested closed-source AI models on this year’s problems,” the same ones faced by 641 competing students from 112 countries.
“It is very exciting to see progress in the mathematical capabilities of AI models,” said IMO president Dolinar.
Contest organizers could not verify how much computing power had been used by the AI models or whether there had been human involvement, he noted.
In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes earlier this year, one of Google’s leading AI researchers predicted that within just five to 10 years, computers would be made that have human-level cognitive abilities — a landmark known as “artificial general intelligence.”
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicted that AI technology was on track to understand the world in nuanced ways, and to not only solve important problems, but even to develop a sense of imagination, within a decade, thanks to an increase in investment.
“It’s moving incredibly fast,” Hassabis said. “I think we are on some kind of exponential curve of improvement. Of course, the success of the field in the last few years has attracted even more attention, more resources, more talent. So that’s adding to the, to this exponential progress.”
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In 2018, Brian Hofer and his younger brother were driving to visit their parents for Thanksgiving. It should have been a routine trip.
But that evening they found themselves held at gunpoint by a group of law enforcement officers.
The incident was the result of technology gone wrong. Hofer’s vehicle had been flagged as stolen by an Automated License Plate Reader — ALPR — system. When he drove by, the reader alerted authorities.
“Your life definitely is different after you have guns pointed at you,” he said.
This incident is one of over a dozen cases verified by CBS News during a six-month investigation into incidents of wrongful stops and even several instances of ALPR technology being abused.
The consequences of ALPR errors can range from the inconvenient — such as mistaken toll booth charges — to the potentially dangerous, such as Hofer’s armed detainment. In some instances the technology was improperly used by authorities, such as in Kansas, where law enforcement officers used license plate reader systems to stalk former partners in two separate incidents.
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The rise of ALPR systems
In use since at least the late 1990s, automated license plate reader systems have advanced quickly in recent years. They now marry high-speed, high-resolution cameras with artificial intelligence to scan every license plate passing through a designated field of vision. The data is then compared against license plate numbers in databases.
Thousands of agencies use these systems daily to scan plates in real time and identify potential matches. Departments use ALPRs as a crime-fighting tool to gather evidence for investigations and reduce crime as well as for traffic compliance.
According to a survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, every police department overseeing more than 1 million citizens reported using the technology, as did 90% of sheriff’s offices with 500 or more sworn deputies.
Law enforcement officials told CBS News that the technology has allowed them to do their job more efficiently and has helped solve crimes ranging from stolen vehicles to missing persons cases.
Pat Yoes, the national president of The National Fraternal Order of Police, an organization of hundreds of thousands of sworn law enforcement officers, said in an emailed statement to CBS News that ALPRs are “extraordinarily important in cases where there is an immediate threat to life or safety, as in an abduction or an armed threat driving to a target,” adding that the information can be valuable in generating leads and closing cases.
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He said transparency is key. “The community should be made aware of the new technology, how it’s used in the field, how it contributes to public safety, and how it addresses any privacy concerns,” he said in the statement. “Technology like ALPRs is a valuable tool for many law enforcement agencies to make their communities safer.”
The rise of ALPR systems comes as law enforcement agencies across the country face staffing and recruiting challenges. A 2024 survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a professional association, found that U.S. agencies are operating at a nearly 10% staffing deficit. ALPR technology is one way to help fill this gap in manpower.
Why license plate readers make errors — what we found
License plate reader errors may occur for a variety of reasons. In some cases, letters or numbers are interpreted incorrectly by the Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, software. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, common issues including glare or misaligned cameras could impact accuracy. CBS News found that mistakes are often due to a mix of machine and human or administrative errors.
In Española, New Mexico, a 12-year-old was handcuffed after an ALPR camera misread the last number of a license plate on a vehicle driven by her older sister as a “7” instead of the “2” it actually ended with, according to a lawsuit filed against the city. A month later, in a separate incident, a 17-year-old honors student was held at gunpoint in Española on his way home from school after officers mistook his vehicle for one associated with an individual who was being sought in connection with a string of armed robberies.
In Aurora, Colorado, in 2020, a mother and her family, including her 6-year-old daughter, were pulled over at gunpoint and forced to lie face down on hot pavement. Again, ALPR technology was central to the stop. Police mistakenly flagged their Colorado license plate as matching that of a completely different vehicle from a different state — a stolen motorcycle registered in Montana. The incident, captured on video and widely condemned, led to a $1.9 million settlement from the city in 2024.
Privacy and accuracy concerns
The ACLU warns ALPR cameras could infringe on civil rights and violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment by encouraging unreasonable searches. Despite widespread use, there is no federal legislative framework for ALPR use.
Hofer, who has been involved in privacy advocacy for over a decade, is now the executive director of Secure Justice, an organization that aims to reduce government and corporate overreach. He says manual verification is necessary to see whether ALPR “hits,” or matches, are accurate. Even so, he said, such checks are insufficient because data errors could cause a plate to “match” an incorrect entry in a database.
“There are billions of scans a day in America. If there’s even just a 10% error rate, that means there are so many opportunities for abuse to happen,” Hofer said.
Some concerned citizens are taking action. Last year, residents of Norfolk, Virginia, filed a federal lawsuit against the city, and in Illinois, two residents have sued the Illinois State Police over ALPR systems, arguing that their use violates Fourth Amendment rights. The latter case was dismissed without prejudice in April.
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AI gets a lot of attention for eliminating human jobs, but more and more it is also creating them.
The number of job postings that mention artificial intelligence has climbed in recent years as employers seek workers versed in AI, a recent report from the Brookings Institution shows, In the last year alone, AI-themed job postings increased by over 100%, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank found.
AI-related job postings have grown at an average annual rate of nearly 29% over the last 15 years — that outstrips the 11% rate of postings in the general economy, said Brookings, which based its findings on data from labor market analytics firm Lightcast.
Demand for AI expertise is growing as more companies start to integrate AI into their workflows. The share of companies using AI in the manufacturing sector has more than doubled from 4% in early 2023 to roughly 9% as of mid-2025, according to Brookings, citing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS).
Yet while AI job growth has accelerated in recent years, it makes up only a small fraction of the labor market overall. Investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates the peak pace of adoption will hit in the early 2030s.
“AI is definitely visible in the micro labor market data, but it doesn’t look like it’s driving the overall labor market dynamic,” said Joseph Briggs, a senior global economist at Goldman Sachs.
What kind of AI jobs?
The burgeoning AI job market involves a mix of skill sets ranging from advanced AI-specific roles, such as AI engineers, to more general AI-related positions such as software developers, according to Elena Magrini, global head of research at Lightcast.
In 2025, more than 80,000 job postings mentioned generative AI skills, up from 3,780 in 2010, according to Brookings.
Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch that the accelerating adoption of AI by businesses is spurring demand for consultants who can help companies integrate AI. Job listings relating to so-called responsible AI jobs, which focus on the ethical use of AI tools in business and society, are also on the rise, according to Indeed.
“In other words, the definition of what it means to be an ‘AI job’ is changing every day as businesses find new and creative ways to incorporate the technology responsibly,” Stahle said.
AI positions may prove an especially appealing sector of the U.S. labor market given that they tend to be associated with higher salaries. Job postings that mention AI skills pay an average of $18,000, or 28%, more per year than for similar roles that don’t require AI skills, according to a separate report from Lightcast.
Where are AI jobs to be found?
Unsurprisingly, AI job growth tends to be concentrated in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, which accounts for 13% of all AI-related job postings. Seattle accounts for 7% according to data from Lightcast.
But AI jobs are starting to surface in other parts of the country including the Sunbelt and along the East Coast between Boston and Washington, D.C. said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro. Universities have also been a catalyst for AI job growth, he noted.
Magrini noted that AI skills are increasingly required in other non-tech fields like marketing, human resources and finance. Over half of job postings requesting AI skills in 2024 were outside IT and computer science, according to Lightcast data.
While uptake is uneven across geographic areas, Muro said he expects AI adoption by employers to increase more rapidly in the coming years as they figure out its benefits and limitations.
“There does seem to be good consensus that this is very important for productivity and that it does really energize regional leaders and business people,” he said.
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