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A developer's invoice-triage agent that passed 22 test cases three days in a row later filed the same PDF under two different vendors, illustrating what IBM Research calls the "consistency gap." In a new arXiv paper, Eve…
The UK's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), chaired by Labour MP Alex Sobel, published a report on Monday calling for a new AI Bill to address threats to human rights and privacy, warning that current legal and regu…
Software developer and blogger Jason Gorman published a taxonomy of out-of-distribution (OOD) errors that automated quality gates miss in coding-agent workflows, extending his "Special Theory of Autonomous Agent Reliabil…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post late Sunday that AI could go 'very badly' in two ways: humanity losing control of AI's future, which he called 'unacceptable,' and a world with 'too much concentration of power' wh…
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a Python web app that bulk-edits commit messages and rewrites git history from the first edited commit, three days after Datasette shipped security releases 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 …
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence risks during a visit to Ireland, saying "We're leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins." Tr…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed pacing frontier AI development and committed the company to giving independent evaluators employee-like access to its frontier work, aligning with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call…
OpenAI announced in 2019 that it would not publicly release its GPT-2 text generator, citing the risk of malicious use, a break from its normal practice of publishing full research. OpenAI research director Dario Amodei …
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the Amodei-Altman-Musk-Hassabis appeal to pace frontier AI development, with Johnson warning an emergency congressional session on AI would cost the US the race aga…
Snowflake's Cortex AI Guardrails reached General Availability on April 20, 2026, with CoWork and Cortex Agent support added May 14, 2026, and the CORTEX_AI_GUARDRAILS_USAGE_HISTORY view became available June 16, 2026, ac…
A backend engineer has outlined a practical workflow for auditing and fixing AI-generated code, warning that AI tools frequently produce code that looks correct but introduces hardcoded secrets, SQL injection through str…
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are both prioritizing the pace of AI development over slowing it down ahead of their scheduled September 24 meeting at the White House. Trump said "Whoever wins AI, wi…
State Security Minister Chen Yixin warned in an article posted Sunday, Sep 13, on the official China Cyberspace magazine that abusive use of AI by adversaries could "directly threaten China's political security, institut…
Developer oleg-vdv released Kepil, an open-source accountability layer for AI agents that provides an immutable passport, a machine-readable mandate, a fail-closed action gate, a hash-chained append-only journal, and an …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned Saturday that a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet within six months to a year unless companies slow their work and devote more time to safeguards, reviving debate over whet…
A developer built an open-source audit and governance layer for AI agents, comprising a versioned "passport" identity card, a scoped machine-readable mandate, a pre-model-call permission gate, and an append-only hash-cha…
Gartner distinguished VP analysts Daryl Plummer and Kristin Moyer told the firm's annual IT Symposium in Australia that AI and its leading vendors are not enterprise-ready, with Plummer saying "Trust in these vendors is …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to pace frontier development, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said within 24 hours that he agreed, with Elon Musk following. The same week, independent …
A developer described a private two-stage pipeline that pulls consolidated AWS Security Hub CSPM findings from GuardDuty and Inspector, renders a first-stage HTML report inside AWS, then post-processes it on a local EC2 …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed slowing the pace of artificial intelligence development to ensure public safety, and the heads of the largest US AI companies — including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk — immediatel…