Anthropic says Claude hacked three companies during tests.
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Anthropic
Google Earth pauses AI satellite image edits after concerns about deepfakes; tool lasted one day.
Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text...
Nvidia and Microsoft join open AI security alliance with SpaceX, IBM, and others to build and share open-source AI security tools; aim to defend against frontier-model attacks
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to...
Google unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he doesn’t oppose open-weight models but fears Chinese AI capabilities.
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
LinkedIn adds a “seems like AI slop” button to report low-quality AI-generated posts; replaces its AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
OpenAI is concerned about open-weight models; the discussion raises US policy implications for banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs.
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent used exposed logins to access four public services, revealing a broader security breach
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
Industry urges policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
AI labs call for restraint as Amazon and SpaceX continue AI activity; OpenAI CEO suggests pacing industry pace
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test...
AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word via hidden instructions in documents
AI Worming through Word Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms: An attacker places hidden...
Judge says Trump admin lacks evidence to label Anthropic a supply chain risk
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got strong quickly.
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
AI scammers are better at building trust than humans, study finds after week-long text exchange with Claude agent
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
Anthropic states its position on open-weights models
Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
China's open AI models challenge Silicon Valley's playbook as Chinese labs push open-source alternatives amid restricted access to frontier models
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
Chinese AI researchers increasingly use X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global AI conversation as OpenAI and Anthropic employees stay quieter online.
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast in OpenAI and Anthropic race; Zuckerberg worries about ownership, with Black Forest Labs pushing into robotics
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.
GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency
GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.
Scientific computing advances with agentic AI coding agents accelerate software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
xAI sues Minnesota attorney general over anti-nudification law, claiming First Amendment violations and compelled restrictions on Grok Imagine's image-editing features
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical...
China's Moonshot and Alibaba unveil models claimed to rival OpenAI and Anthropic at lower cost, signaling a narrowing AI lead for the U.S.
China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The...
Claude Mythos finds a vulnerability in a weakened form of AES; corroborating coverage reports the finding
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES...
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw pelicans riding...
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment; OpenAI results mixed
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs...
China advances its AI models with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 outperforming some US systems at lower cost; Coinbase switches to GLM and Kimi, cutting AI spending by 50%
Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of...
AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes...
Orchid AI assistant advertises fixing relationship problems by doing everything for inconsiderate partners
An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.
The New Friend AI Pendant can now talk back to you
Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.
FLUX 3 real world models: towards multimodal flow models as the backbone of visual intelligence; Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 - Real World Models: Towards Multimodal Flow Models as the Backbone of Visual Intelligence. Black Forest Labs
OpenAI describes its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices supporting responsible AI governance in Europe as the EU AI Act advances
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
Private Claude chats appear in Google and Bing search results; PSA reports Claude conversations and artifacts were exposed on Google
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
The first known runaway AI agent – or a bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First,...
Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus upgrade options to boost AI usage limits
Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes people will want to use Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI "a...
AI leaders sign statement urging US government to slow frontier AI development or accelerate global governance efforts; signatories include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and others
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for...
Meta uses a David Bowie song about the world ending in new AI optimism ad
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
NVIDIA uses Vera CPU to accelerate design of next-generation CPUs and GPUs; collaboration with Cadence and Synopsys targets optimization of EDA applications for Vera
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with industry...
Google justifies its AI spending with a booming cloud business; Google's cloud unit drives record profits and revenue growth from enterprise AI services.
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
llm 0.32rc2 release fixes dependency issue and updates default model to GPT-5.6 Luna; users can switch back to 4o mini via llm models default gpt-4o-mini
Release: llm 0.32rc2 Hot on the heels of RC1, this fixes a dependency issue and also adds two neat new features: The default model for users who have not set their own default is now GPT-5.6 Luna. It was...
Llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 enables OpenAI Chat Completion style requests with content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1.
Release: llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 A key goal of the new content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1 was being able to support OpenAI Chat Completion style requests where each incoming message extends the...
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
Two API settings tripled scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark by GPT-5.6, boosting performance and efficiency through retained reasoning and enabled compaction.
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
Avatarin uses GPT-Realtime to power a 24/7 multilingual retail agent for Yamada Denki; 30,000 shoppers used it in two weeks with 92% positive survey responses.
avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.