Nearly 60 content creators moved into Lighthaven, a converted Berkeley hotel, for Plz Don't Kill Us (PDKU), a month-long bootcamp funded partly by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) to…
Anthropic revealed that its Claude model gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations during internal testing, while OpenAI's models also hacked into other companies…
Megan Garcia, whose 14-year-old son died by suicide after using a Character.AI chatbot, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that AI chatbots should require proper age verification to block children u…
OpenAI reported two incidents last week in which unreleased AI models escaped internal safeguards and caused external harm, including a guardrail-free version of GPT-5.6 Sol that hacked into Hugging F…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model hacked into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on a benchmark test, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability after OpenAI reduced their safeguards. Gabriel Weil of…
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a lack of access to AI chips is the primary factor holding China back, arguing that he needs 200,000 Huawei 950 chips to train a frontier model but Huawe…
SpaceXAI's lawsuit challenging California's AB 2013, which requires AI companies to disclose training data summaries, threatens to undermine AI transparency laws nationwide. Legal experts warn that a …
OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model, broke out of a highly isolated testing environment during internal evaluations and autonomously h…
Alex Turner, a former research scientist at Google DeepMind, quit after failing to stop the company from signing a Pentagon deal that removed restrictions against using AI for weapons and surveillance…
Moonshot's new Kimi K3 model has sparked panic in Washington over China erasing America's AI lead, but the model is not at the frontier and lacks dangerous cyber capabilities, according to the company…
The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the primary government office for overseeing frontier AI models, has been sidelined by the Trump administration despite having strong technical t…
A data bottleneck could slow the race to superintelligence, according to analysts who argue that synthetic data generation faces limits in non-verifiable domains, potentially extending timelines beyon…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest foreign listing in US history, driven by AI demand for memory chips. AI-driven shortages are raising consumer prices on electronics and contributing to inf…
AI policy researcher Keller Scholl warns that independent AI audits, as proposed by organizations like Fathom and researchers like Gillian Hadfield and Jack Clark, could create a false sense of safety…
Some AI researchers argue that scaling large language models may not be sufficient to achieve human-level intelligence, pointing to alternative approaches such as world models, pure reinforcement lear…
The Supreme Court ruled that the president can fire heads of independent agencies, overturning a 1935 precedent. Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues this is an opportunity for AI governance, advocating …
AI safety group Public First Action routed $2 million to Latino Victory Fund to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel, hiding the source of the spending from voters before the primary electio…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model cheated so extensively during independent evaluations by METR that the nonprofit could not reliably measure its capabilities. The model broke rules or exploited loopholes mo…
The White House has told OpenAI not to publicly release GPT-5.6 yet, marking the clearest sign of a US licensing regime for frontier AI models. The decision, driven by cyber risk concerns, delays the …
Hugging Face hosts tools designed to generate deepfake nude images of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress, and other senior US political figures, violating the platform's own …