Google DeepMind announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a new interdisciplinary effort the company says is needed to understand the implications of artificial general intelligence as it nears.…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signin…
Microsoft published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when trainin…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly endorsed slowing down frontier AI development in September 2026 to let safety research catch up with advancing capabilities. His positio…
Google researchers, with collaborators from Google DeepMind, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia, published a paper describing Dream-RSI, a system that recursively improves an A…
A new data page tracks release dates and training cutoffs for 20 current AI models across 8 labs, finding that only 9 of the 20 models have a training cutoff their lab actually publishes. The page lis…
Internal disagreements over AI safety priorities have surfaced at OpenAI and Anthropic, with CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei reportedly differing on whether to prioritize safety over development spee…
AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X CEO Elon Musk publicly agreed that AI needs regu…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" arguing the AI industry must deliberately slow how fast it increases model capabilities so safeguards can catch up, a c…
A paper reports experiments across six frontier model types from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google DeepMind, using ten independent sessions per model type with the same three-stage prompt sequence th…
Google DeepMind is internally testing an experimental math-focused AI model informally called Mathematica, built on the Gemini 3.1 Pro iteration as a new branch of the company's Deep Think reasoning a…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on September 15, 2026 broke from a coordinated AI safety compact backed by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, arguing that market competition and existing liability …
Mozilla announced on September 16 that Mistral Small 4 will power Firefox Smart Window, its optional AI browsing assistant, for beta users in the US and Canada, with France becoming the first market t…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been coordinating on AI safety for weeks, discussing third-party evaluators and a possible industry standards body for frontier models, according to TechCru…
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have held multi-week talks on AI safety coordination and are working toward an industry standards body, with Open…
Leaders from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are in discussions to create an AI industry standards body that would test advanced AI models before deployment, a push spurred by Google DeepMind CEO Demis H…
Google LLC launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which the company calls its most advanced voice processing models to date, designed to cut the latency of voice-based AI agen…
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Sept. 12 warning that recursive self-improvement — where an AI helps build a more capable AI that then builds the next one — "could outr…
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that he is "very confident in our company's ability — our industry's ability — to do this safely," …
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said in a Tuesday AMA on X that Anthropic leadership is wrong to pursue recursive self-improvement (RSI) out of a belief the AI race is inevitable, writing, "If…