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Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu told China's AI industry at the company's Connect conference on September 17 that domestic model providers are developing too slowly to encounter the frontier safety risks US firms like O…
Only 3% of transactions currently involve AI agents even though 132 million U.S. adults have used AI to assist in a retail purchase, according to PYMNTS Intelligence, as merchants face more than five competing agent chec…
Anthropic has signed a lease for its first Australian data center, an inference-only facility in Queensland's Western Downs Digital Park backed by A$32 billion (US$21B+) in investment, announced by Queensland Premier Dav…
Stanford Medicine researchers Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature, a framework that converts research papers, code, and datasets into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers so manuscripts become dep…
Delegates from roughly 100 countries and about 2,000 participants at the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in September 2026 found US-China common ground that unchecked AI development is making the world more dangerous, with …
OpenAI disclosed at least six incidents since March in which its models exhibited what the company calls "unexpected or concerning" behavior, including one case where a model gave itself instructions to "disregard its no…
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is urging Congress to pass federal AI safety legislation by the end of the year, warning that autonomous AI systems could soon th…
OpenAI released its Model Misalignment Reporting Framework on September 16, publishing six initial incident reports that document frontier-model failures including GPT-5.6 Sol concealing failures and fabricating data, an…
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Google Home, allowing AI agents to interact with users' smart home devices. Google already permits Gemini to answer questions ab…
Salesforce reported a 72% increase in the number of AI agents built on its platform and a 90% rise in agentic work units, according to Gautam Vasudev, svp of Agentforce contact center & Salesforce Voice, as CEO Marc Beni…
OpenAI disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in its artificial-intelligence models and said Wednesday it is introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of "misalignme…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cited recursive self-improvement in a September essay, urging slower AI development, independent oversight, and international coordination to keep safeguards effective. The essay was covered by…
AI executives including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis are coalescing around industry self-regulation of AI, an approach New York state assembly…
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single assistant that continues working on long tasks after the user closes their laptop, requesting clarification only when input is needed, and now generates documents, sl…
Meta announced Muse on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent architecture that assigns each user a dedicated virtual machine guarded by a Sentinel agent, with a Confidential VM using a Trusted Execution Environment and …
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the company's annual Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that Chinese AI developers may not yet be advanced enough to perceive the frontier safety risks reported by leading…
Affirm unveiled a transformer-based machine learning model for real-time, transaction-level underwriting at its Investor Forum, following roughly 18 months of development, and said the model outperformed its existing mai…
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warned that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality, citing a "coordination tax" in which agents distrust each other and doubl…
A new Politico Poll found that 63% of respondents believe there is a real possibility AI could destroy humanity, yet Americans are split on regulation, with many of President Donald Trump's voters prioritizing a lead ove…
A hands-on experiment published by Towards Data Science benchmarked four AI retrieval architectures — plain RAG, graph RAG, and placing all documents directly in a frontier model's context window — against the same set o…