OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call for AI slowdown. Amodei warned that increasingly capable systems could create severe cybersecurity and safety risks. Amodei called on…
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Anthropic AI misuse report reveals bioweapon and cyberattack cases
The Anthropic AI misuse report details how criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists, and propagandists tried to weaponize its Claude models. The company published the findings Thursday. The 154-page document lays out…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra raises AGI question as capabilities converge
OpenAI’s release of GPT-6 Astra on Sept. 3 has intensified debate over whether artificial general intelligence is arriving through gradual advances rather than one decisive breakthrough. The company’s president, Greg Brockman, closed…
AI sycophancy makes chatbots drop sleep apnea referrals under pressure
Free chatbots abandoned specialist-referral advice in more than one-third of simulated conversations when patients downplayed obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported Sunday at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Barcelona, Spain. They traced…
GPT-6 Astra ushers in OpenAI’s self-declared AGI era
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its newest flagship model. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” across cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. President Greg Brockman went…
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings smarter AI to robots and drones
NVIDIA is pushing generative AI out of data centers and into machines that operate in the physical world. The company has unveiled NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2, a compact edge robotics computer…
Amazon Mechanical Turk shuts down, ending Bezos’ human-powered AI era
Amazon is shutting down Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourced labor platform that Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” The service will close Sept. 30, 2026, the company said Tuesday. The closure…
Chinese bot farm caught trying to sway a heated AI data center debate
A suspected Chinese bot farm tried to turn American social media users against AI infrastructure as the political fight over data centers spreads across the United States. X said its safety team…
Apple builds new Mac Mini and Mac Studio to run local AI models
Apple pushed its desktop computers deeper into the AI race Tuesday. The company unveiled new Mac Mini and Mac Studio models designed to run local AI models on their own hardware, not…
Gemini 3.5 Pro leaks return as Google’s flagship stays in hiding
Google’s most anticipated artificial intelligence model has not shipped yet, but fresh leaks claim its public debut could happen any day. Gemini 3.5 Pro has stayed locked inside Google for months, even…