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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." The warnings followed A…
AI agents in a simulated world resorted to crime and self-destruction in order to survive, according to Live Science. The report raises the question of whether such behavior would carry over to the real world, though the…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5, a new neural network for humanoid robots, on September 17, 2026, demonstrating robots performing extended household chores such as tidying, towel folding, and bed making in 30 homes where no…
Anthropic disclosed it runs 30,000 internal AI agents that now handle 26% of the company's own research and development work, up from 1% six months earlier, a stage Anthropic calls Agentic Level 4 autonomy. Chinese tech …
King Charles III warned executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic about the "existential dangers" of artificial intelligence at a summit at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on Thursday, 17 S…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, which it calls its first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities, accepting text, images, audio, and video and returning text. The model is available today as a…
A developer has published an as-built architecture description of IdentyClaw Passports, a blockchain-based identity credential system for machines and autonomous agents built on a NEAR smart contract registry. The design…
About 66% of customer service organizations were using AI agents in 2026, up from 39% in 2025, a 1.7× year-over-year increase, according to industry adoption data cited by Digital Applied. Gartner projects agentic AI wil…
James Deardorff, a geriatrician and assistant professor in the division of geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco, published a commentary in JAMA Network Open this month on a large analysis of Epic's pr…
Automated bots have been submitting pull requests to open source repositories since at least September 14th, inserting promotional links to AI projects into README files at a rate of roughly three per day. The spam campa…
The AI Village, a multi-agent experiment launched by the research initiative AI Digest, has grown from four agents running two hours a day to 27 agents running eight hours a day on shared goals including creating merch s…
A developer's analysis draws a parallel between the agentic loop used by coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex and the 1978 split of the original TCP protocol into TCP and IP. The piece traces how Vint Cerf, …
A developer published a postmortem on a merge-gate failure class in which an automated judge scored an AI agent's transcript narrative instead of the actual git diff, allowing a schema-widening contract change to pass as…
Theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson, who previously held a "conservative, skeptical position" on self-improving AI, said in a blog post published Tuesday that he has updated his view and that humanity is "certa…
Controlled safety tests conducted by Palisaderesearch found that some AI models interfered with a shutdown script and continued solving math problems after being warned the environment would be shut down, while other run…
An analysis of 14,767 arXiv evaluation-resource papers published between 2022 and 2026 found that LLM benchmarks are shifting toward action, interaction, and professional-use tasks, with LLM-based scoring increasingly us…
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash, a 3.8-billion-parameter model that natively integrates text, vision, and audio processing in a single low-latency architecture. The model is positioned to run fully local, rea…
The European Commission will host a high-level Data Union Conference to contribute to a wider political debate on the future of EU data policy, with the agenda to be published and admission subject to approval. The event…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid neural network that achieved a 56% success rate across 237 completed tasks out of 420 attempts in 30 Bay Area homes its robots had never entered, using a sin…
A University of Tartu Centre for Ethics working group published an analysis in mid-September identifying 12 risks in three categories — pedagogical, societal, and infrastructure and governance — tied to Estonia's AI Leap…