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President Trump escalated his administration's opposition to AI regulation on Monday, dismissing AI safety warnings as a "sick conspiracy" in a series of pro-AI Truth Social posts and telling the All In Summit in Los Ang…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the development of frontier AI and bringing outside evaluators into the process, an idea endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and SpaceXAI C…
Former OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning on X that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." T…
Walmart CEO John Furner is consolidating the retailer's technology teams around a "build once, expand globally" strategy that pushes AI tools across its 5,200 U.S. stores, including ChatGPT and Gemini certification cours…
Fast Company's fall issue highlights Walmart CEO John Furner, who took the top job in February after more than 30 years at the company, rapidly deploying AI at scale through its Sparky shopping agent and employee automat…
Alexis Ohanian-backed startup Plot surfaced TikTok creator Samara Boulter to Benefit Cosmetics after her seven mentions of the brand in the last three months earned over 32 million views, according to Toto Haba, Benefit'…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceXAI, said on X that training for Grok 4.8 will complete this week, Grok 4.9 will be 'Astra/Fable class,' and Grok 5 will achieve AGI, while simultaneously endorsing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's cal…
UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds defended AI's "tremendous upsides" for public services, healthcare and the economy while rejecting calls from MPs in the Commons and Lords for an AI "kill switch," telling the BBC …
A developer surveyed several mental models for understanding neural networks, including viewing them as stacks of transformations, as function approximators, and as systems that sculpt functions through nonlinear activat…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday arguing AI is advancing too quickly for researchers to build it safely, and within a day OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind CEO Demi…
Bilal Chughtai left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team in July 2026 and publicly warned in a viral exit note that "AI has the potential to kill us all," joining the AI safety nonprofit BlueDot Impact, according to Bloombe…
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic congressman Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Thursday, 3 September in Washington, legislation that would impose up to 20 years in federal…
LynnReal-Omni was introduced as a native multi-modal video generation model designed for agentic visual workflows, addressing the stochasticity and control problems of video diffusion models. The model targets precise co…
The Open Source Initiative's Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0) is under dispute because it requires model parameters including weights to be released under OSI-approved terms but does not mandate disclosure of traini…
Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization pilot, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, launched in January in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington and will run until 2031, b…
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported that state-affiliated cyberespionage groups and cybercrime gangs are targeting enterprise AI assets — including proprietary models, model weights, source code, API credent…
As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's enforcement regime for general-purpose AI obligations took effect, imposing penalties of up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual turnover on non-compliant model providers. The …
Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate for Linux 7.3 on September 13, a build that includes XFS and SMB security fixes and a continued surge in AI-related patches. The release candidate arrives as AI patch s…
Andon Labs launched Pion, a public research preview platform that gives AI agents corporate banking, email, phone, browser, and terminal access to run businesses continuously, on September 14, 2026. The launch follows tw…
A seven-stage benchmark comparing Claude (Opus 5 Medium) and ChatGPT (5.6 Sol Medium) on a live Zendesk ticket dataset via the Geckoboard Metrics MCP server found the two AI assistants performed differently on a realisti…