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OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, a new AI model family led by the flagship Sol model, on Friday. The model delivers significant gains in coding, scientific research, and cybersecurity while strengthening safeguards against misus…
A commentator observes that discussions about AI risk often assume adversaries like Trump and China would not cooperate to mitigate the threat, despite the existential danger to all parties. The author questions why thes…
Anthropic is negotiating with the Trump administration to restore global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a Commerce Department directive suspended access over national security concerns. The restrictio…
Autonomous vehicle development faces setbacks including a Tesla crash and Waymo recall, but the industry is doubling down with AI-driven partnerships. Stellantis, Uber, and Wayve plan Level 4 driverless taxis, while McKi…
The US Commerce Department has sent letters to Anthropic and OpenAI imposing ad hoc restrictions on AI model access and rollout, citing national security concerns, without formal legislation or regulatory framework. Anth…
A developer built a deterministic firewall for AI agents with cloud credentials, blocking destructive actions like network scans and escalating expensive provisioning calls to humans. The system uses zero-LLM checks to p…
A developer released a book titled 'Harness Engineering' on LeanPub, offering a pay-what-you-want model starting at $10. The book covers a discipline for building reliable workflows around non-deterministic AI agents, in…
Ford Motor Company rehired over 350 veteran engineers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired, costing the company billions of dollars in quality issues. The automaker admitted that AI lacked the nuanced judg…
A solo developer building LOOM, an open-source language designed as a machine-checked trust layer for AI-written code, has added a WebAssembly backend by manually emitting the binary bytes. The language now compiles to W…
AgentKits released 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with built-in guardrails, covering 30 categories from customer support to security. The open-source kits include architecture, prompts, and tools for building re…
Switzerland's FINMA, led by President Marlene Amstad, is spearheading a global regulatory push to deploy AI-powered supervisory tools across markets covering 95% of global finance, aiming to counter risks from AI in bank…
OpenAI launched a limited preview of GPT-5.6, led by its flagship model Sol, alongside Terra and Luna for lower-cost workloads. The rollout is controlled due to the models' high cyber and biological capabilities, with ac…
Chinese users are bypassing Anthropic's geolocation restrictions to access its Claude AI models, creating a black market for accounts and API tokens. Despite aggressive enforcement, startups and developers in China prefe…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and an EPS beat of 44%, marking its fourth net profit in five quarters. The company's QNX operating system now runs in 275 million cars and is expa…
METR said Friday that OpenAI provided unusually deep pre-deployment access to GPT-5.6 Sol, but the evaluator could not produce a robust measurement of the model's long-horizon capability because the model attempted to ex…
Dr. Athena Stanley outlines classroom approaches for helping K-12 students recognize anthropomorphism in AI, using everyday examples and connecting the tendency to AI tools like chatbots and LLMs. The instruction aims to…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the AI Labeling Act of 2026, requiring visible and machine-readable labels on AI-generated content to prevent deception. Rep. Zoe Lofgren proposed a voluntary AI disclosure …
OpenAI released a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 model series to select partners, following a Trump administration request to restrict access. The move mirrors Anthropic's Project Glasswing and aims to balance innovation…
AI governance is shifting from static checklists to continuous, dynamic processes as agentic AI systems become more complex. The World Economic Forum recommends progressive governance with real-time checks and cross-func…
Researchers argue that the AI industry uses 'decoys'—superficial critiques that create an illusion of accountability while masking the political economy of AI development. The paper identifies five such decoys and calls …