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- Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’ A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are...
- What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under...
- Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
- Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the...
- ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then...
- Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion-dollar strategy overhaul de...
- “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
- Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.
- AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they'd get mor...
- Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new tre...
- Adobe is trying to make its AI generators idiot-proof in Premiere Adobe is overhauling how editors interact with AI in its Premiere professional video editing software. Its new Generative Media tool makes it easier to generate video, sound effects, music, and soundscapes without ever leaving the projec...
- This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in...
- The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
- Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often ...
- OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’ OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a ...
- OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
- Architecting memory and storage in the AI era The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer nee...
- Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Pal...
- Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
- Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
- Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones gene...
- Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
- Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
- Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
- Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
- Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it ha...
- “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
- The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents ...
- ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.
- Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results. Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
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