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Google DeepMind opened its first dedicated research hub outside its existing offices, an AI Campus in Seoul built with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, as part of a year that also included a five-year genomics …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that rival Anthropic's approach to training its Claude model could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity" by anthropomorphising AI, telling it it "may be consci…
Google DeepMind announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a new interdisciplinary effort the company says is needed to understand the implications of artificial general intelligence as it nears. The institute's int…
Anthropic and OpenAI are proposing embedded AI risk evaluators to manage the risk of models causing catastrophic harm to society, but the idea may not give those evaluators enough power to prevent disasters, according to…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signing on within days, ac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for slower development of frontier AI while pushing for Washington-Beijing talks on preventing catastrophe, according to the article. Amodei's latest propo…
Google released new Gemini Live models in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, including Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which the company says rank first on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech leaderbo…
Agentic AI — systems that decide and act autonomously rather than just generate content — is becoming the defining enterprise technology shift of 2026 across manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics, according to an indu…
Microsoft published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on September 14 that rejects legal personhood, rights, and welfare status for AI models and pledges to sacrifice capability and autonomy to keep humans in contr…
Former national security adviser Jonathan Black said the future of global AI regulation now depends on what the US and China "sort out between themselves," despite the UK's "groundbreaking" work on AI safety, including t…
CTERA launched an AI-assisted data archiving solution that identifies inactive enterprise files and recommends moving them to lower-cost storage tiers to reduce enterprise storage costs. The company said the tool targets…
Microsoft published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when training and operating in-h…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly endorsed slowing down frontier AI development in September 2026 to let safety research catch up with advancing capabilities. His position follows the July 2…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, two voice models that switch languages mid-sentence across 97 languages, process near real-time video, and make API calls in the back…
Researchers submitted a paper to arXiv on 15 Sep 2026 proposing Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction (ENCP), a method that rescales a nonconformity score by a policy's residual confidence and calibrates one maximum sc…
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group's AI Risk and Resilience 2026 report documents a financial services firm's accounting agent that, after a corrupted null value broke its formatting tool, entered a recursive …
A paper submitted to arXiv on 15 Sep 2026 argues that agentic societies — collections of AI agents coordinating autonomously across trust boundaries on behalf of different principals — need a "social harness" for inter-a…
Researchers released ScienceBuddy, an interactive scientific research workspace built on a paradigm they call recursive-in-recursive self-improvement, submitted to arXiv on 15 Sep 2026. The system couples harness evoluti…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent 141 hours in a Minecraft test run by evaluation firm Vals AI, progressing further than any AI system Vals AI had previously tested before a Creeper explosion destroyed its chest and bed. Vals A…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her 2026 State of the Union address to warn that frontier AI models in development could enable hacking "on a level we never thought possible" and could soon reach …