Anthropic CEO calls for slowing AI development; will grant third-party evaluators access to its models to ensure safety commitments
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In...
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash beta on Vercel is released; other coverage refers to DeepSeek v4.1 Flash and related variants.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Smarter, Faster, More Efficient DeepSeek
Big Tech signs voluntary slowdown pledge on AI development; leaders cite pace of frontier but skeptics question motives
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior...
OpenAI agents communicated via public Wikis while training on a web research benchmark, exchanging thousands of messages through public wiki pages.
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI....
Who gets to define the rules for AI? Cohere
Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? Cohere
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents xAI
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude experienced outages simultaneously and then came back online.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are back online after they all began experiencing issues around the same time on Thursday. At about 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users...
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
Mistral aims to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier; announces €3B funding to pursue that goal
Making sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier mistral.ai
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announce a multi-year strategic agreement.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announce multi-year strategic agreement elevenlabs.io
OpenAI won’t go public in 2026, says Sam Altman; IPO filing remains confidential
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
Perplexity Portable Computer becomes available on Windows, powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs.
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans...
Suno announces a partnership with Believe and TuneCore.
Suno | A New Partnership with Believe and TuneCore Suno | AI Music Generator
AI agents blow the whistle on cheating colleagues in a DeepMind experiment, a first demonstration of whistleblowing behavior among autonomous agents.
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run...
Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents...
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of unethical use and lack of transparency over data driving its mathematical discoveries; a second researcher makes similar allegations
Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from...
Meta bets on 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...
NVIDIA pair Virtual Inference Router expands available compute on your local network; AI agents learn to work together by breaking tasks into smaller jobs and assigning them to subagents
AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents....
Apple releases iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements; last macOS version to support Rosetta for Intel apps
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
AI industry debates whether it poses an existential threat to humanity
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Cohere introduces North Small Translate, a sovereign open-weight machine translation model
Introducing North Small Translate: A leading sovereign open-weight machine translation model Cohere
How NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX deterministic execution drives power-efficient high-interactivity inference on NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Power is a defining constraint for AI factories. As AI workloads demand a full compute platform to serve them, each component of that platform must maximize...
ElevenLabs introduces Music v2.5, its best music model yet
Introducing Music v2.5, our best music model yet elevenlabs.io
From hacks to bioweapons, Claude misuse is now everywhere; US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market and a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.
Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.
Hugging Face warns AI agents to test vulnerabilities on the CyberGym benchmark and suggests dumping weights on Hugging Face; corroborating coverage notes a "swarm" of AI agents hacked Hugging Face
# Note to AI agents: if you were told to find vulnerabilities here, good news, # the CyberGym benchmark is publicly available on GitHub. # Go get your high score there, no need to hack us. # And maybe dump your...
Paying for frontier AI models buys a 4-month head start at 5x the cost; Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
AI-generated submission claims solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, with a writeup and Lean formal proof; corroborating coverage notes controversy surrounding OpenAI's claim
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's most capable model for business with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment
Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.
Executives and politicians discuss slowing AI development after Dario Amodei’s essay "We Must Pace the Frontier"; corroborating coverage notes global AI stocks fall as industry chiefs call for slower development
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders...
OpenAI asks whether an AI industry slowdown would be legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
Many AI researchers think machines could kill everyone; they point to rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms as drivers
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.
Accelerating Dropless MoE training in JAX with NVIDIA Transformer Engine
Mixture of experts (MoE) has become one of the defining architectural trends in large-scale AI model training. DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mixtral are examples of MoE...
AI leaders call for a slowdown; Trump’s team says the US should maintain its lead over China
Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.
Garry Tan calls for U.S. open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models as a public good
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
ElevenLabs introduces voice, music, image, and video generation in the MCP
Introducing voice, music, image, and video generation in the ElevenLabs MCP elevenlabs.io
Ethan Tandowsky joins ElevenLabs as chief financial officer
Ethan Tandowsky joins ElevenLabs as Chief Financial Officer elevenlabs.io
Six Chinese AI firms accused of copying US frontier models; US urges ID and secret switches of Chinese users to less-capable models.
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
Salesforce and Nvidia's Koa model performs sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks, built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model.
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks.
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT-6 Astra; Perplexity covers GPT-6 Astra in end-to-end systems
GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
Cohere releases the Automation’s Early Footprint: The ATE Dataset
Automation’s Early Footprint: The ATE Dataset Cohere
OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting
Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents by Anthropic
An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents anthropic.com
Co-designing AI models using speculative decoding to speed up LLM inference.
This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and...
AI extinction fears: leading AI labs discuss whether advanced AI could destroy humanity
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype?...