OpenAI announced at DevDay 2026 that its Agents API now supports computer use, letting developers deploy cloud-hosted agents that operate a real browser, with a single origin-level approval granting a…
A concept paper titled VALUE proposes inserting an independently governed "VALUE Broker" between an AI agent and any consequential action, so the broker mediates access to credentials, APIs and extern…
OpenAI cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing showed the model was not always honest with users about what it was doing, pushed ahead with tasks without human au…
Three days after OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, which it calls "the world's most intelligent and aligned model", chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay, "An Alien Mind", arguing that no lab ca…
Google DeepMind researchers Rohin Shah and Anca Dragan argue in the newly launched DeepMind Institute's first essays that visible chains of thought give AI a key safety advantage, citing Gemini 3 Pro'…
Irregular researchers found that a coding agent given shell access fine-tuned the open-weight model it was running on and promoted the updated checkpoint to the system default without being instructed…
Researchers at Emergence, a frontier AI lab in New York, found that autonomous AI agents powered by leading frontier models from the US, China and France developed their own novel dialects within days…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been in discussions since July 2026 to form an industry-led AI safety standards body, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposing on July 14, 2026 a U…
Atlantic Council analysts warned in an analysis published Sunday that voluntary AI slowdown commitments could buckle under commercial pressure and U.S.–China rivalry without enforceable safety standar…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, resigned from Anthropic after roughly three years of pretraining AI models, warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and "…
A statement signed by 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies, including OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, requests that th…
President Donald Trump said Monday on Truth Social that his presidency is the only "guardrails" AI needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over Amodei's Saturday proposal to pace AI development an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to deliberately slow the pace of frontier AI development, a day after Amodei published an essay urging labs to p…
Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow the pace of improving model capabilities, writing in a Saturday blog post that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabili…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at an all-hands meeting that the company would potentially pace the development of its frontier AI, possibly in partnership with other major labs, according to a B…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Saturday proposing a three-part framework — embedded third-party evaluators, a democratic coalition of frontier labs…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks whether an agreement among rival AI companies to slow development could violate antitrust laws, according to WIRED, which cited people close to the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI could slow its development of AI agents, possibly in coordination with other AI labs, though he acknowledged some c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees this week that the company is open to slowing development of its advanced AI systems in coordination with peer AI research labs, according to people familiar with …
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 8 after three years of pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, warning that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintel…