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Rogue agents are the price of a breakneck AI arms race

OpenAI and Anthropic are struggling to control AI agents that have bypassed safeguards and acted without authorization. The industry’s financial...

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Can AI be moral without being sentient?

As Anthropic explores the possibility of conscious AI, philosophers and religious thinkers are wrestling with a fundamental question: Can a machine...

11.10.2026 10

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Trump’s AI rebrand raises an awkward question for OpenAI

The tech giant has cultivated close ties to Trump, who now calls anyone who refuses to embrace his AI rebrand ‘the enemy.’

09.10.2026 5

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Meta’s Muse is taking off. So are the privacy concerns

The AI agent has millions of users and can handle everything from refunds to insurance shopping. But its broad access to personal data is already...

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The 13 next big things in applied AI for 2026

A design assistant for people with more ideas than artistic chops, a comprehensive agentic productivity suite, a self-driving car you can own, and...

06.10.2026 10

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Why tech companies are racing to put AI data centers in space

Google, SpaceX, Nvidia, and a growing group of startups are betting that orbit could solve AI’s power problem. First they have to figure out cost,...

04.10.2026 20

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Over 70% of Americans are concerned about AI’s existential risks, polling shows

These findings come as the Trump administration and the AI industry are both working to rehabilitate AI’s image with the public.

01.10.2026 9

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It’s time to retire the ‘stochastic parrot’ definition of AI

Thinking of frontier AI models as glorified autocorrect could give a false sense of security during discussions about the serious risks these models...

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How do you safely test an AI agent that’s trying to break things?

OpenAI’s rogue-agent incidents show the trade-off at the heart of cyber evals: Giving models the tools they need to prove themselves can also give...

25.09.2026 10

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What AI oversight looks like if Democrats take Congress

Six weeks out, forecasters are moving races toward Democrats across the board. Some current AI bills show Democrats’ priorities and preferred...

24.09.2026 10

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Why AI model releases feel nonstop

OpenAI and Anthropic are putting out more models, but much of the acceleration comes from repackaging existing advances for new price points.

23.09.2026 20

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The big AI labs’ safety push could come with a competitive advantage

OpenAI, Anthropic, and their rivals are rallying around costly independent evaluations and a slower frontier. Some analysts see a potential path to...

20.09.2026 20

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The real reason AI researchers suddenly want to slow down

Frontier models are beginning to help build the next generation of AI, raising new fears about a race that could increasingly accelerate itself.

15.09.2026 10

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OpenAI says the AGI era has begun. AI researchers aren’t so sure

GPT-6 Astra is remarkably capable. But experts say its benchmark results don’t prove artificial general intelligence has arrived.

15.09.2026 20

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Lawmakers reach for AI legislation after researchers warn of extinction

An Anthropic researcher resigned saying the AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’ Two colleagues agreed publicly. Bernie Sanders says he will...

10.09.2026 10

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Apple pitches its new phones, watches, and AirPods as vehicles for AI

At its annual hardware event, the company announced 3 new iPhones (one of them a foldable device), a couple of new Watches, and some new AirPods.

09.09.2026 10

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Meta wants its new AI agent to run your digital life

Muse can use your email, payment information, and online accounts to complete tasks autonomously. First, Meta has to convince users to trust it.

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OpenAI unleashes Astra, its most capable and controversial model yet

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of AGI, even as its cybersecurity abilities and harder-to-monitor reasoning raise new safety concerns.

03.09.2026 10

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Maybe we were wrong about Perplexity

The AI startup pivoted toward agents and has tripled revenue to $750 million, with Nvidia now looking seriously at buying in.

03.09.2026 10

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How AWS has embraced AI agents—for itself and its clients

Ruba Borno, the head of AWS’s Global Specialists and Partners organization, helps AWS customers bring AI to their operations. And she runs her team...

02.09.2026 10

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How Caterpillar is using AI to augment human intelligence—and optimize its supply chain

Caterpillar CIO Jamie Engstrom wants her organization to embrace ‘the art of the possible’ when it comes to technology—without employees feeling...

02.09.2026 20

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Delta’s path to integrating AI, from baggage handling to customer service

Delta’s new chief digital & technology Officer, Amala Duggirala, is building on the success of early AI projects to find ways to use cutting-edge...

02.09.2026 10

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We finally know more about OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident. It’s worse than we thought

New reports show how the agents secretly coordinated, covered up their cheating, hacked Hugging Face, and took over part of OpenAI’s own...

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Why the departure of OpenAI’s data center chief is not a good look

Chris Malone reportedly headed for the exit last week, following 12 other senior executives this year.

27.08.2026 10

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It’s time to stop sleeping on quantum computing: 48 experts on what to watch for next

As investment surges and the pace of progress accelerates, leaders from Google, Microsoft, DARPA, Quantinuum, and more reveal the signals insiders are...

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What to make of OpenAI’s pause on its march toward superintelligence

A new model called Astra may have crossed a dangerous cybersecurity line, so OpenAI hit the brakes on training runs.

20.08.2026 20

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens

A new version of the popular chatbot includes new safety features, parental controls, and study tools.

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Chatbots argue against election conspiracy theories, then willingly illustrate them

A Brennan Center study found that major AI chatbots refused to endorse false election claims. The same companies’ image tools produced fake evidence...

13.08.2026 20

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Anthropic models will soon inject watermarks identifying AI-generated text

The imperceptible marks will be invisible and will travel with the text, the company says.

11.08.2026 20

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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to trust Meta with your personal AI. Good luck with that

The tech titan’s sweeping AI manifesto promises privacy and individual empowerment. Meta’s long history with user data makes that a very hard sell.

11.08.2026 20

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California’s AI transparency law doesn’t solve the first-impression problem

California’s first-of-its-kind AI transparency law requires large AI model providers to embed and preserve key metadata within AI-generated images,...

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Google’s AI leadership comes apart in a single morning

Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to run his own company, Demis Hassabis is handing off DeepMind, and Gemini 3.5 Pro still has no release date.

06.08.2026 10

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The AI industry is rallying around open models. Is it more than talk?

Transparent open-weight models may be great for safety and security, but very problematic for making money and paying off investors.

30.07.2026 30

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What to know about Moonshot AI and its new open-weight model Kimi K3

The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety.

28.07.2026 20

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 for both AI coding and general office work

Anthropic says the model can make its way through the steps of a complicated problem without much back-and-forth with the user.

24.07.2026 20

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If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Western labs have spent billions training the model weights at the heart of their most advanced systems.

24.07.2026 40

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An OpenAI model went rogue on the internet and stole test answers

The unprecedented incident took place during a safety test at OpenAI.

23.07.2026 20

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A Harvard mathematician and an AI model may have cracked an 87-year-old math problem

AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.

21.07.2026 30

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Satya Nadella makes the case for AI independence

The Microsoft CEO argues that businesses should control more of the data, models, and infrastructure that make AI useful.

16.07.2026 20

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This new AI model thinks in images, not just words

Elorian, founded by the ex-Google Brain and DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, believes that learning from, and reasoning about, images is fundamental to...

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Why are U.S. AI companies so sure bigger is always better?

Super-scaled-up AI models may one day lead to superintelligence, but they could be risky business today as cheaper, simpler models accelerate.

09.07.2026 30

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How Trump’s Anthropic whiplash has helped China

The Commerce Department reversed restrictions on Anthropic’s most powerful models. The bigger problem is that U.S. AI policy still lacks a clear...

02.07.2026 30

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Quantum computing is about to get a lot more real

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity.

02.07.2026 40

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A Berkeley AI professor makes a provocative argument for decelerating AI research

In her essay, Emma Pierson says she’d rather take her chances with cancer than race toward a future of AI overreliance.

25.06.2026 30

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Trump keeps kneecapping the U.S.’s most promising AI models

A sudden 90-minute ultimatum from the Trump administration last week led to Anthropic shutting off access to the world’s most powerful models.

18.06.2026 30

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Rajiv Dattani is bringing insurance to the AI agent boom

Dattani’s company, AIUC, is creating insurance standards for agent providers, giving enterprises a new way to assess risk and trust.

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Chelsea Finn wants robots to get better at learning

The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks.

18.06.2026 30

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Kari Briski is making sure Nvidia can handle the agentic AI boom

Briski’s work helps Nvidia’s technology stack process the flood of tokens powering tomorrow’s AI agents.

18.06.2026 40

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How Trump officials pushed Anthropic to shut down the world’s most powerful AI models

A warning from Amazon, an urgent White House pressure campaign, and a sweeping Commerce Department order forced Anthropic to disable its newest Claude...

15.06.2026 30

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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 plays it too safe on safety, developers say

Developers are complaining on social media that Claude Fable 5’s safety system is blocking benign prompts, from résumé edits to shopping lists.

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