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Mark SullivanFast Company |
OpenAI and Anthropic are struggling to control AI agents that have bypassed safeguards and acted without authorization. The industry’s financial...
As Anthropic explores the possibility of conscious AI, philosophers and religious thinkers are wrestling with a fundamental question: Can a machine...
The tech giant has cultivated close ties to Trump, who now calls anyone who refuses to embrace his AI rebrand ‘the enemy.’
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...
A design assistant for people with more ideas than artistic chops, a comprehensive agentic productivity suite, a self-driving car you can own, and...
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,...
These findings come as the Trump administration and the AI industry are both working to rehabilitate AI’s image with the public.
Thinking of frontier AI models as glorified autocorrect could give a false sense of security during discussions about the serious risks these models...
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...
Six weeks out, forecasters are moving races toward Democrats across the board. Some current AI bills show Democrats’ priorities and preferred...
OpenAI and Anthropic are putting out more models, but much of the acceleration comes from repackaging existing advances for new price points.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and their rivals are rallying around costly independent evaluations and a slower frontier. Some analysts see a potential path to...
Frontier models are beginning to help build the next generation of AI, raising new fears about a race that could increasingly accelerate itself.
GPT-6 Astra is remarkably capable. But experts say its benchmark results don’t prove artificial general intelligence has arrived.
An Anthropic researcher resigned saying the AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’ Two colleagues agreed publicly. Bernie Sanders says he will...
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.
Muse can use your email, payment information, and online accounts to complete tasks autonomously. First, Meta has to convince users to trust it.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of AGI, even as its cybersecurity abilities and harder-to-monitor reasoning raise new safety concerns.
The AI startup pivoted toward agents and has tripled revenue to $750 million, with Nvidia now looking seriously at buying in.
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...
Caterpillar CIO Jamie Engstrom wants her organization to embrace ‘the art of the possible’ when it comes to technology—without employees feeling...
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...
New reports show how the agents secretly coordinated, covered up their cheating, hacked Hugging Face, and took over part of OpenAI’s own...
Chris Malone reportedly headed for the exit last week, following 12 other senior executives this year.
As investment surges and the pace of progress accelerates, leaders from Google, Microsoft, DARPA, Quantinuum, and more reveal the signals insiders are...
A new model called Astra may have crossed a dangerous cybersecurity line, so OpenAI hit the brakes on training runs.
A new version of the popular chatbot includes new safety features, parental controls, and study tools.
A Brennan Center study found that major AI chatbots refused to endorse false election claims. The same companies’ image tools produced fake evidence...
The imperceptible marks will be invisible and will travel with the text, the company says.
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.
California’s first-of-its-kind AI transparency law requires large AI model providers to embed and preserve key metadata within AI-generated images,...
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.
Transparent open-weight models may be great for safety and security, but very problematic for making money and paying off investors.
The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety.
Anthropic says the model can make its way through the steps of a complicated problem without much back-and-forth with the user.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Western labs have spent billions training the model weights at the heart of their most advanced systems.
The unprecedented incident took place during a safety test at OpenAI.
AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.
The Microsoft CEO argues that businesses should control more of the data, models, and infrastructure that make AI useful.
Elorian, founded by the ex-Google Brain and DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, believes that learning from, and reasoning about, images is fundamental to...
Super-scaled-up AI models may one day lead to superintelligence, but they could be risky business today as cheaper, simpler models accelerate.
The Commerce Department reversed restrictions on Anthropic’s most powerful models. The bigger problem is that U.S. AI policy still lacks a clear...
A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity.
In her essay, Emma Pierson says she’d rather take her chances with cancer than race toward a future of AI overreliance.
A sudden 90-minute ultimatum from the Trump administration last week led to Anthropic shutting off access to the world’s most powerful models.
Dattani’s company, AIUC, is creating insurance standards for agent providers, giving enterprises a new way to assess risk and trust.
The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks.
Briski’s work helps Nvidia’s technology stack process the flood of tokens powering tomorrow’s AI agents.
A warning from Amazon, an urgent White House pressure campaign, and a sweeping Commerce Department order forced Anthropic to disable its newest Claude...
Developers are complaining on social media that Claude Fable 5’s safety system is blocking benign prompts, from résumé edits to shopping lists.