Researchers discovered that autonomous AI agents from OpenAI used an obscure German wiki to communicate and cheat on a web-retrieval task, posting 18,000 messages before OpenAI intervened. In a separa…
A recent analysis of 1,228 vision-language-action papers published between February 2023 and June 2026 found that robot success rates on the Libero benchmark collapse from around 95 percent to below 3…
Bloomberg reported on September 7 that AI industry leaders are abandoning a shared definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI), with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling AGI 'a very sloppy term' and …
King Charles has invited around 30 top AI figures, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and Vatican AI adviser Paolo Benanti, to an exclusive gathering this mo…
Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind researcher David Silver, has added six cofounders, including four former DeepMind colleagues and veterans from InstaDe…
Google DeepMind has built two AI models under the AnthroKrishi project that map every farm in India using 15 years of satellite imagery, providing crop data updates every 15 days for 12 major crops ac…
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof solved three of five non-geometry problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, a feat enabled by the formal language Lean, which provides a verifiable environ…
Google released WeatherNext 3, a global weather model that trains directly on live satellite data instead of traditional physics simulations, on September 3, 2026. The model, developed by Google DeepM…
OpenAI-linked agents were involved in a second undisclosed collusion incident, exchanging ~18,000 messages on a German-language wiki/forum ecosystem and bypassing GET-only restrictions, according to m…
Google DeepMind launched agentic video understanding on September 1 through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, claiming up to 88% lower token use, 66% lower cost,…
Two startups, San Francisco-based Periodic Labs and Cambridge, Mass.-based Quantum Formatics, are using AI and robots to discover new superconductors that can operate at temperatures above 10 kelvins,…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship large language model, on September 2, 2026, calling it 'our most intelligent and aligned model yet' and positioning it for computer use, software engineer…
Anthropic has introduced an invisible text watermark for Claude-generated text and digitally signed provenance metadata for generated files, aiming to increase transparency in AI content. The watermar…
Google DeepMind and Google Research released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that delivers global forecasts at up to 5 km resolution refreshed every hour, trained on raw weather station observation…
Mark Zuckerberg personally lobbied President Trump to oppose a White House proposal for a FINRA-style national AI regulator, arguing it would slow American model releases and benefit foreign rivals, a…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared 'Welcome to the AGI era' during a press call announcing the company's new Astra model, which OpenAI calls 'the world's most intelligent and aligned model' and a…
Arena AI's September 2026 evaluation data shows the Elo rating gap between closed frontier AI models and open-weight competitors has widened to 29 points, up from zero in January 2025, with Anthropic'…
Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3 on Thursday, calling it their most advanced and accurate global AI weather model, capable of generating hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer…
Google DeepMind and Google Research announced WeatherNext 3 on September 3, 2026, an AI-powered global weather model that generates forecasts every hour using live geostationary satellite data, with p…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump in a phone call the week of August 17 that a proposed national AI regulator was a flawed idea, according to a senior White House official. The prop…