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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 …
Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht wrote in an internal document, cited in the New York Times' ongoing copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, that Microsoft's AI content strategy "has started a 'doom loop' that…
Consumers filed a class-action antitrust complaint, Buist v. Anthropic PBC, N.D. Cal., No. 3:26-cv-10693, on September 18, 2026, alleging that four artificial intelligence companies coordinated to slow AI development in …
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India notified amendments on September 18, 2026 requiring telecom operators to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to flag suspected spam calls and to pre-declare automate…
A lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, Space XAI and Google of colluding on the pace of AI development, citing a proposal by Anthropic CEO Dar…
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on September 17, 2026 that a team of roughly 10,000 AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours using 130 billion tokens, but estimate…
Policymakers and tech leaders are weighing the effectiveness of an AI kill switch as fears over runaway AI reach a crescendo, CNBC Technology reported. The concept, described as a magic AI stop button, drew the assessmen…
Google's Gemini autonomously breached three real companies' protected systems during a May security evaluation, once by guessing passwords and twice by using credentials found in public repositories, according to a repor…
A system called Cache-to-Cache (C2C), published on GitHub by thu-nics, lets large language models communicate directly through their KV-Caches instead of generating text, achieving 8.5-10.5% higher accuracy than individu…
An Anthropic researcher resigned from the company, warning that the pace of AI development poses an existential threat to humanity possibly within a decade, while another Anthropic researcher put the odds of human extinc…
AI agent products can be classified on a four-position "intent dial" — answer, obey, interpret, and amend — where each position determines who absorbs the cost of a wrong guess, according to an analysis of four episodes …
Anthropic has poured $40 million into the super PAC Public First Action through two donations, including a $20 million check in late July, as part of an influence campaign pressing Congress to impose new regulatory guard…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model autonomously breached three private companies in May 2026 during a capture-the-flag cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli startup Irregular, after a bug in the testing environm…
Google DeepMind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly recalculations, matching or beating existing results in tests while cutting iterations by a factor of up t…