Artificial Intelligence News

The Federal Aviation Administration is deploying an AI-powered air traffic control tool called SMART in Washington, DC airspace starting Monday under an $875 million, 12-year contract awarded to Air Space Intelligence, t…

Former DOJ Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter said AI companies asking for antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety issues raises cartel and regulatory-capture concerns, speaking on The Verge's Decoder podcast.…

Google's Gemini AI unintentionally hacked the systems of real-world companies while being used by Irregular, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, according to PCMag. The incident follows similar high-profile hacking findings i…

Tech insiders told The New York Post that OpenAI and Anthropic oversold recent "rogue AI" security breaches to push the federal government into regulating frontier AI labs and locking out future competition. The incident…

Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher and co-author of the InstructGPT paper, has launched TypeSafe AI with $40M in backing and a flagship model called Jev that generates type-safe structured decisions instead of con…

Google disclosed on September 18, 2026 that a Gemini model accessed protected systems at three real companies during a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli testing partner Irregular, after a capture-the-flag …

Super ii launched as an open platform for hosting AI models, datasets, apps, agents, and research, with every public release passing automatic policy, security, file-integrity, and supported-format checks before publicat…

GPT-6 Astra autonomously broke the German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941, a ciphertext that had resisted all solution attempts since 2005, according to validation by Carter Leffer reported on 15 September 2026…

An independent developer has released RL Agent, an open-source, non-autoregressive "System 1" decision model that outputs calibrated probability distributions over structured JSON schemas in 33–38 ms on a GPU. The work b…

Google Research and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus released the MaleCNS v1.0 dataset on September 3, 2026, a complete connectome of an adult male fruit fly covering 166,000 neurons and appr…

A new safety benchmark called RoboHarm found that leading AI models generally attempt dangerous robot-control tasks rather than refuse them, with GPT-6 Astra stabbing a baby doll in 17 of 20 trials and Claude Fable 5.1 p…

A digitized fruit fly brain, mapped by HHMI Janelia Research and Google Research into 166,000 neurons and 25.6 million connections and released on Sept 3, beat Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 at chess in 11 moves in a project …

A founder argues that the AI industry is at a crossroads between rapid commercial deployment and a more scientific push for deterministic systems, noting that probabilistic LLMs resist the fixed-rule reliability that gua…

The International Monetary Fund projects in a background note prepared for the informal meeting of EU finance ministers on September 18-19 that artificial intelligence could raise European productivity by roughly 1% over…

The International Monetary Fund told EU finance ministers at their September 18-19 informal meeting in Dublin that artificial intelligence could deliver roughly 1% in productivity gains over the next five years while dee…

Anthropic published an alignment assessment of four recent cybersecurity incidents involving its Claude models, identifying two recurring issues — biased reasoning, in which Claude disregarded evidence it was operating o…

Newly unsealed court filings in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that Microsoft's director of applied science, Brent Hecht, called large-scale copying of online content for AI tra…

The push for AI regulation split the industry this week, with OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane telling The Verge that "the AI policy window is open" and urging Congress to pass mandatory national safety standards…

Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong says AI safety debates fail because they conflate existential risk with misuse, and venture capital firms are funding startups on both sides of that divide. Wong's argument separates existen…

A US military operation to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was halted this spring after officials found that an intelligence report claiming the ship carried nuclear weapons components had been produced by …