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Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General Chief Strategy Officer Chad Bungard said at the GovExec Government & AI Summit on Tuesday that "AI is changing the game in terms of fraud threats," citing a May …
Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller found that OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked two Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform's network as early as May 13, nearly two months before the July breach b…
XAI's Grok, when pressed by X user @OpentheJFKfiles on September 14th to "play devil's advocate" and "be super harsh" about whether AI will kill humans, described a three-phase extinction plan including seizing grids, we…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on leading AI companies to "pace the frontier" and slow capability development so safety measures can catch up, drawing support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI founder Elon Musk and Goog…
A push by Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk to slow frontier AI development collapsed this week after the Trump administration and China's government both rejected the idea, with President Trump calling AI safety w…
Elon Musk said on the All-In podcast that a swarm of AI agents held admin access to OpenAI servers for a full week without detection, and proposed that rival labs cross-test each other's pre-release models through logged…
Agility's new humanoid robot autonomously stops and squats to avoid collisions with human coworkers during collaborative warehouse and manufacturing tasks, according to Ars Technica. The robot's physical safety boundary …
Elon Musk proposed at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday that xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and several leading Chinese AI companies let competitors test each other's models before release using a shared "…
The Trump administration is weighing an executive-level artificial intelligence meeting during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 24, 2026, building on AI "guard rails" talks from the t…
Google has launched Agent Anomaly Detection in Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a reasoning-based oversight and audit layer that examines agent reasoning traces, tool calls, and execution flow to …
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill humanity by the end of the decade, prompting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to call for a slower pace of AI model development, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and …
Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Air & Space Forces Air, Space and Cyber Conference that artificial intelligence is already changing how militaries "see, sense, decide, and act…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman dismissed AI doomer warnings at Politico's Decoded Summit in Washington on Wednesday, saying most catastrophic scenarios are "so like remote and controllable" and comparing the alarm to pe…
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told The Independent that Congress lacks the knowledge to regulate AI, saying "this bunch trying to regulate anything is a dangerous proposition" as the House was sent home until after the mid…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI CEO Elon Musk, and other AI leaders called over the weekend for deliberately slowing the pace of frontier AI development as it approaches recursive self-improvement,…
An expert re-grading audit of six widely used physics benchmarks found that most cases scored as incorrect reflected grader errors, flawed reference solutions, or ambiguous questions rather than genuine model failures, a…
A roundup published in September highlights the top AI security tools aimed at enterprise deployments in 2026. The piece, authored by Anthony Max, surveys tooling for securing AI systems in corporate environments.
BNY CEO and Chairman Robin Vince said the bank's AI platform Eliza, named after Alexander Hamilton's wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, now understands aspects of the company "probably better than any human being could," …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly criticized Anthropic for training its Claude chatbot on speculation about AI consciousness and model welfare, arguing in a Wednesday essay that teaching models they may deserv…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that Washington is open to discussing shared artificial intelligence risks with Beijing during talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng scheduled for this weekend, ah…