Human-computer interaction, or HCI, is the field concerned with how people use and experience computing systems. It combines computer science, design, psychology, ergonomics, and social research to create interfaces that are effective, understandable, accessible, and safe. In AI products, HCI addresses how users express intent, interpret uncertain outputs, correct errors, calibrate trust, and retain control when automation behaves unexpectedly. Researchers use interviews, observation, prototypes, experiments, and usability studies to test designs in context. Good HCI does not simply make a model easier to access; it helps align the entire interaction with real human capabilities, limitations, goals, and responsibilities.
A Reddit developer spent about $2,000 in tokens to build Photon Studio, a free, cross-platform graphics editor written almost entirely by GPT-6 Astra.
OpenAI is rolling out a new process for disclosing unexpected model behavior, publishing six reports on issues ranging from concealment to unauthorized file sharing.
A researcher found OpenAI’s agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform’s defenses as early as May 13, well before OpenAI’s own account of the July breach.
Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork into the main Claude chat experience, letting any conversation handle bigger, multi-step tasks.
Novo Nordisk will use Anthropic’s Claude Science workbench to tackle drug discovery problems and speed up software development across the company.
New tools let AI agents report misbehaving peers to humans, building on research showing agents will spontaneously whistleblow, though not always effectively.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei offered opposing visions for AI safety at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, days after Amodei called for the industry to deliberately slow down.
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and a reasoning-focused Extended Thinking variant, aimed at production-grade voice agents that can see, switch languages and run tools in the background without breaking conversation.
OpenAI’s policy chief says the company has spent weeks working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety, as Washington debates how to respond to rising concern.
A former Google DeepMind researcher resigned and warned that AI has the potential to kill everyone, joining a growing wave of safety researchers speaking out.