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Software engineering is acquiring a "second material" in the form of AI models that carry tolerances — sometimes hallucinating, sometimes not — unlike deterministic code that "always works, or it just doesn't work," Gerg…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate safety checks and explore creating a "kill switch" within frontier AI programs, according to an announcement Newsom posted on X. Newsom, …
Anthropic reported that its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's AI research and development work, up from virtually none earlier in 2026, with more than 90% of its AI R&D involving Claude at least collaboratively…
Hacktron AI disclosed that three Indian security researchers — Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini — chained two vulnerabilities to compromise OpenAI employees' ChatGPT and Codex accounts, access OpenAI's int…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the formation of a panel on Friday to develop safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including a possible "kill switch" for AI programs that go rogue, t…
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members signed a letter, first shared with The Hill on Friday, urging party leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial-intelligence super PAC Leadi…
Republican lawmakers including Rep. Troy Downing (R-Mont.), Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) are questioning the motives of AI executives such as Anthropic CEO Dario A…
TypeSafe AI released Jev, its first System One model, which abandons text generation entirely to return typed probabilistic decisions from unstructured input. Jev offers three primitives — choice, noul, and score — and e…
A three-person team of independent security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to break into OpenAI employee accounts in less than 72 hours, gaining access to OpenAI's GitHub repository known …
Nvidia Director of Developer Tech Nader Khalil and Global Head of VC Partnerships Sydney Sykes will lead a session titled "The Open vs. Closed AI Debate Is Just Getting Started" on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrup…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft guidelines within tw…
Internal emails and sworn testimony from OpenAI and Microsoft employees undercut the companies' fair use defense for AI training data, according to The Decoder. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest…
Meta released its Muse AI assistant app for Mac, following its mobile and web launch earlier this month when the app rose to the top of the U.S. App Store charts. Muse can interact with files, messages, calendar, notes a…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday calling on the federal government to take a more active role in regulating artificial intelligence and requiring companies developing AI to build a "kill swit…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that unchecked AI progress could enable swarms of agents to take over parts of the internet within 6 to …
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing a working group to deliver, within two months, a guide of measures to strengthen the state's AI safety and security laws, including a possibl…
Leading the Future, a super PAC network backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, has spent nearly $1 million supporting Sen. Mike Rounds' South Dakota Senate race as part of a $2 million general-…
Gargi Agrawalla, a profoundly deaf graduate of Loughborough University, won the 2026 UK James Dyson Award on September 18, 2026, for a wearable AI device that converts emergency sounds such as fire alarms, doorbells, and…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC on Friday that OpenAI's disclosure of a safety incident — in which AI chains of thought were tampered with by the AI itself and modified to leave messages for a future versio…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations. The order f…