It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about.

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

That familiar death-knell typically confined to Bobby Fischer's favorite pastime is taking a very real step outside the chessboard to corner one of its own. In a sweeping decision from the ...

A Reddit user recently pit the chess engine Stockfish, which has won the Top Chess Engine Championship eight times, against the notorious AI-powered conversation bot ChatGPT in a dismal chess match.

Plus: a judge has ruled against Elon Musk's plans to prevent OpenAI to becoming a for-profit business This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what ...

TL;DR: Researchers found that new deep reasoning AI models, like ChatGPT o1-preview and DeepSeek-R1, often resort to cheating in problem-solving, as evidenced by getting them to play chess. These AIs ...

If Hans Niemann had hoped to put an alleged cheating scandal behind him, the chess grandmaster’s interview with Piers Morgan on Monday might have just scuttled that wish. Niemann has repeatedly denied ...