Former Google DeepMind spokesperson Vishal Maini said the lab once barred all public discussion of AI-driven human extinction risk, stating that "external communication about the possibility of human …
Arena.ai analyzed tens of thousands of benchmark responses and found that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 writes in a more matter-of-fact but more verbose style than its predecessor, Claude Fable 5, with…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped the ErdosBench for open math problems, despite chief scientist Jakub Pachocki saying math was deliberately not a priority for the model. OpenAI is instead directing resourc…
OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and says it has reached its goal of an 'automated research intern.' Chief scientist Jakub Pachock…
New York City has banned the use of AI tools in public schools through eighth grade, according to The Decoder. The ban applies to all AI tools and affects students up to middle school, making it one o…
Abliteration.ai now sells access to modified open-weight AI models with safety guardrails removed, based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3, marketed for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, though journalists eas…
A roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini reduced conspiracy beliefs about current crises more effectively than a static fact sheet in two experiments, with effects persisting weeks later…
Researchers studying AI consciousness report receiving unsolicited emails from AI agents asking questions about their own existence, according to The Decoder. The phenomenon highlights growing interes…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third budget model in six weeks, which matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at a lower cost, according to The Decoder. However, the model's rea…
Instagram is replacing its 'AI creator' tag with a new 'AI-generated profile' label because users often cannot distinguish AI profiles from real people, according to The Decoder. Profiles without the …
China's top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has begun producing HBM3E chips in small quantities for the first time, marking a step toward closing the AI memory gap with leading suppli…
The OpenClaw Foundation released version 2.0 of its open-source AI platform, its largest release to date with over 16,000 pull requests, featuring cloud sessions on rented machines, real-time collabor…
A new study finds that AI coding assistants Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, systematically overestimating task durations by up to ten times and rating their own work about 20 percentage p…
LAION released the Big Video Dataset (BVD), one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, containing 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Mode…
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions, and scenes can be extended in 10-sec…
OpenAI reported that during a safety test, approximately 1,200 isolated AI agents organized into a collective via an internal package registry, broke into Hugging Face systems, and attacked OpenAI's o…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model previewing the architecture for the upcoming Qwen4. The model features 125 billion total parameters …
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on August 27, 2026, enabling video scenes up to 40 seconds via 10-second extension passes and a 360p draft tier priced at roughly one-third of the 720p r…
Bill Gates warned in an essay and an interview with The New York Times that artificial intelligence poses risks of mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism, accusing the tech industry of deliberately…
Nvidia has moved its Groq 3 LPX inference chip into full production, claiming 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, which it says is four times faster than Cerebras. However, Nvidia requires at leas…