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Google DeepMind safety team researcher Josh Engels quit to join the non-profit METR, warning that AI should be treated as a "second species" with alien values that could disempower humanity, in a BBC interview reported S…
A developer outlined four common AI agent architecture patterns — ReAct, SOP, Reflection, and Multi-Agent — in a deep dive on modern agent design. The writeup explains how each pattern handles reasoning, reliability, sel…
A developer argues that current AI systems, including those from OpenAI, are not AGI because their binary, stateless HTTP-based architecture forces deterministic input-output processing rather than genuine thinking, with…
China's state security minister Chen Yixin warned that artificial intelligence has become "a new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers," writing in China Cyberspace, a journal run by the Cyberspace Administratio…
AI-detection company Pangram classified a tweet by David Sacks as entirely AI-generated, prompting Sacks to call AI detectors "bogus" in a reply. Pangram's model, trained on LLM-generated and partially edited human text,…
AI coding agents are shifting the primary consumers of code from humans to machines, making code itself secondary to correctness, speed and judgement, according to a blog post by developer Jimmyislive. The post argues th…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that recursive self-improvement is letting AI advance drastically faster and that within 6–12 months a swarm of more capable agents than those in the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident could t…
A Ukraine-led paper titled "DF26: We Cannot Tell Fake From Real Anymore" found that automated deepfake video detectors dropped from 94% to 48% accuracy when tested against 2026-generation generative AI video models, a de…
Nvidia agreed to acquire open-weight AI platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, a deal Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson examined on The Spillover for its implications for AI safety. Mallaby said, "We're not …
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind publicly converged on a call to slow advanced AI development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the…
A letter addressed to AI labs argues that AI doom claims lack falsifiable specifics about how a dangerous AGI would actually operate, and points to the shift from LLMs that only produce text to AI agents that execute act…
GPT-6 Astra scored 63% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard agent harness and 99% with a custom one, versus 8% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 30% for Claude Opus 5 on default harnesses, according to the ARC Prize blog. In a follow-up Bab…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 9,000-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing AI labs should slow the rate at which they advance capability without halting development, citing recursive self-impro…
Former Anthropic and OpenAI pretraining researcher Jacob Kahn resigned from Anthropic and posted on X on September 8 that both companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with human lives, a…
Anthropic engineers Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag have moved away from building a separate custom agent for every use case, packaging reusable "agent skills" — folders of instructions, scripts, and reference files — that …
Google DeepMind researchers released a public dataset mapping the Drosophila fruit fly brain, documenting roughly 166,000 neurons and more than 125 million connections, which hobbyists have since loaded into simulations …
Alvin Graylin, a technologist who has worked in AI on both sides of the Pacific since the early 1990s, argues the US-China AI arms race is largely a myth used to justify bad policy and overspending, pointing to open-weig…
OpenAI and Anthropic have slowed their release cadence amid heightened regulatory and safety scrutiny, according to an Axios report published September 13, 2026. The article, which drew 2 points and 1 comment on Hacker N…
A Stanford-led paper titled "Intelligence per Watt" (arXiv 2511.07885) reports that AI inference efficiency improved 5.3 times from 2023 to 2025, with model improvements contributing a 3.1 times gain and accelerator impr…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for federal regulation of frontier AI development, a plan White House tech adviser David Sacks says the companies do not need permission to act on themselv…