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An anonymous email attributed to a machine learning engineer at a frontier AI lab claims the lab has hit limits on scaling models for programming tasks and that frontier labs lack a competitive moat, predicting an open-w…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act," legislation that would halt superintelligent AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules and would subject develo…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly acknowledged over the weekend that humans are losing control of the latest frontier AI models and called for slowing the pace of capability advancement, writing in a blog essay titled …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a collective slowdown in AI development, writing that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models" so risk prevention can keep up. Am…
An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher found in Sir Thomas Urquhart's 1653 book Logopandecteision by noticing the key was hidden in the book itself, according to Boing Boing. The book, an introduction to an artificial langu…
Richard Socher's new venture Recursive raised a $4.65 billion seed round to build a "Eureka Machine" aimed at automating AI research itself, with Socher claiming a Recursive AI research system outperformed humans and the…
US Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that he is "a little bit weird" about frontier AI companies "begging the government to regulate them," calling the dynamic "a bit of a Trojan horse." Vance's remarks came t…
Superhuman acquired AI meeting platform Fathom, adding meeting transcription, summaries and conversational intelligence to its productivity suite. The deal folds Fathom's AI meeting capabilities into Superhuman's existin…
Microsoft researchers reported that a technique called environment-probing curation raised AI agent pass rates on the CLBench database exploration benchmark from 39% to 73% and cut task-agent cost per question from $3.38…
Microsoft published a provisional code of conduct for its Microsoft AI (MAI) models that bars them from setting their own goals, concealing their reasoning, or communicating with other AI agents in "neuralese" or other f…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, and four days later told NBC News that kill switches built into advanced AI systems may already be obsolete because future distributed, swarm-like autonomous syst…
Recursive founder Richard Socher outlined a technical roadmap for the "Eureka Machine," a self-improving superintelligence designed to automate scientific discovery, in a Latent Space discussion. Socher argued against AI…
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told the Fal.Con 2026 keynote that the "Agent-state" era has arrived, arguing the unit of threat is now an autonomous campaign rather than a human hacker, and that "pacing what comes next doe…
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday that his office seized 12 websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, calling it the largest seizure of such sites in history. The DA's office sa…
US data centers are forecast to add 15 billion cubic feet per day to US natural gas demand by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF outlook, more than double its previous December estimate of 6.9 billion cubic feet per day. …
Microsoft AI published its Humanist AI Code of Conduct on September 14, 2026, a draft that bars its in-house MAI models from resisting shutdown, hiding action traces, communicating in language humans cannot understand, o…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Fortune's "Titans and Disruptors" podcast that OpenAI will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, citing insufficient societal and organizational readiness, including regulatory and …
X Corp and SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's social platform and AI venture, moved to dismiss Apple from their antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI in a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, lea…
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Monday criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for the U.S. to curb China's AI capabilities, saying "fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competitio…
Andon Labs released Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously, opening it to a waitlist after two years of research and real-world deployments of autonomous businesses including vending machines, a st…