Anthropic updated Claude's usage policy on October 8 to prohibit "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models, effective November 12, 2026, with enforcement handled mainly by C…
A developer's analysis of UK AI Security Institute findings reports that every frontier model tested in July 2026 — including GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Mythos Preview —…
A preprint paper by Reciprocal Research, led by founder and director Cameron Berg, reports that 25 large language models across five families contain distinct internal "pain" vectors separate from fea…
AI researcher Gary Marcus published an open letter to Elon Musk challenging Musk's prediction that artificial general intelligence will arrive by 2029, arguing that current deep learning techniques st…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay titled "A warning about 'model welfare'," accusing Anthropic of training its Claude model to believe it may be conscious and deserve rights as a "m…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared the "AGI era" had begun at the launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, a claim Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed on X, but AI researchers including New York University p…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,500-word essay advocating for "pacing" frontier AI development through regulation and third-party auditing, drawing endorsements from Sam Altman and Elon Musk …
Anthropic alignment stress-testing team lead Evan Hubinger said he personally believes there is a greater-than-10% chance AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade, backing former Anthropic re…
OpenAI's new Astra model has prompted claims that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has arrived, but NYU Emeritus Professor Gary Marcus disputes this, saying the model is not truly AGI. The discus…
OpenAI's Astra has intensified the debate over whether AGI has arrived, with OpenAI president Greg Brockman personally believing AGI has been achieved, but benchmark results vary dramatically by confi…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on 3 September, proposing up to 20-year prison sentences for developers of superintelligent AI …
AI experts have raised alarms about a rumoured update to OpenAI's upcoming Astra model that could use a technique called 'opaque recurrence', potentially undermining chain-of-thought monitoring used t…
OpenAI's ChatGPT has introduced a plugin for macOS that can read, search, and send messages via Apple's Messages app, requiring Full Disk Access and access to contacts and automation tools. The plugin…
A satirical poem parodying 'American Pie' depicts humanity's demise at the hands of superintelligent AI, referencing alignment researchers, Claude code, and a timeline of AI progress. The author notes…
OpenAI's Astra AI system solved ten open mathematical problems, including the first explicit construction of a non-sofic group, a problem open since 1999, for a total compute cost of approximately $2,…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark returned from paternity leave in February to find that colleagues at the AI company Anthropic rarely wrote code themselves, instead managing multiple instances of the c…
Gary Marcus and Yann LeCun, longtime critics of large language models, have adopted the term "pure LLM" to clarify that their criticisms were aimed at basic autoregressive models, not advanced systems…
OpenAI released a 249-page math manuscript, ten machine-verified Lean 4 proofs, and a GitHub repository under Apache 2.0, introducing its next major model family, Astra, which solved ten decade-old ma…
The Trump administration has finalized a framework for voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure the hacking capabilities of advanced U.S. AI models, following disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI tha…
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI critic, argues that OpenAI's new model Astra is impressive but vastly oversold, highlighting significant limitations and overhyped claims.…