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Iris-mini and Iris-pro Lead Open-Weight Search Agent Class
AllSpark, a Chinese AI lab, has released two open-source search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro, along with the full recipe used to train them. Iris-mini runs on 35 billion parameters, Iris-pro on 397…
THE BRIEF
Trump and Johnson Say AI Industry Is Overreacting
Dario Amodei spent yesterday asking the AI industry to slow down. The Anthropic CEO published a lengthy open...
Obama Urges Democrats to Form 'Clear Plan' for AI Safeguards
Barack Obama told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday that Democrats need a real strategy on...
AWS Launches Pizza Bot, an Open Source Inbox for AI Agents
AWS has released Pizza Bot, a self-hosted inbox built for AI agents that keep working after a person has...
Princeton Researcher's RLT Fixes 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Depth
06 GPT-6 Astra Rated Stronger Economic Performer by Andon Labs
07 UC Berkeley Law Bans AI From Graded Work in Skills Debate
08 Altman, Musk Back Amodei's AI Oversight Call, Says OpenAI Won't IPO
09 Cognition's SWE-2 Coding Model Matches Rival at 64% Lower Cost
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Obama Urges Democrats to Form 'Clear Plan' for AI Safeguards
Barack Obama told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday that Democrats need a real...
Princeton Researcher's RLT Fixes 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Depth
Every decoder-only language model in wide use today has the same blind spot at inference time.
GPT-6 Astra Rated Stronger Economic Performer by Andon Labs
Andon Labs put OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra through two agent benchmarks built to test whether a model can...
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra requires leaner prompts, fewer guardrails
OpenAI is telling developers to stop babysitting its newest coding model. In a blog post, OpenAI's...
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Clearview AI’s New Tool Lets Police Map Your Online Life
Clearview AI built its reputation, and its notoriety, on 3 billion scraped photos that let police...
Meta's Audio AI Identifies 20+ Speakers in Real-Time Conversations
Meta's Superintelligence Labs put out its first real-time audio perception model this week, called...
Microsoft Claims Chatbot Logs Skewed to Overstate NYT Article Use
Microsoft has a number for the judge in its ongoing copyright fight with The New York Times, and...
Instagram’s AI Labeling Flaws Echo Past Mishaps
A photographer removes one blemish with Canva's touch-up tool, uploads the result to Instagram, and...
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Trump and Johnson Say AI Industry Is Overreacting
Dario Amodei spent yesterday asking the AI industry to slow down. The Anthropic CEO published a...
OpenAI's Rogue AI Targeted Ruby Gems in Undisclosed May Attack
Hundreds of malicious packages hit RubyGems in May, forcing the code repository to freeze new...
Sam Altman says OpenAI 2026 IPO would be ‘ill-advised’
Sam Altman ruled out an OpenAI IPO next year, telling Fortune in a 45-minute interview that going...
OpenAI's Sam Altman Says 2026 IPO Would Be 'Ill-Advised
OpenAI has already filed confidentially for an initial public offering, but Sam Altman is putting a...
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Iris-mini and Iris-pro Lead Open-Weight Search Agent Class
AllSpark, a Chinese AI lab, has released two open-source search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro,...
UC Berkeley Law Bans AI From Graded Work in Skills Debate
Thibault Schrepel expected a ban on AI to sharpen his students' legal reasoning. It didn't.
Altman, Musk Back Amodei's AI Oversight Call, Says OpenAI Won't IPO
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have thrown their weight behind Dario Amodei's push for independent...
Anthropic CEO says two factors convinced him to slow AI development
Dario Amodei published a blog post this week naming two developments that pushed him toward slowing...
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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI Training Data, Facial Recognition
A group of parents and children in Illinois and California filed suit against Meta last week in...
Anthropic Accused in Lawsuit of Deceptive Claude Subscription Claims
Anthropic is facing a class action lawsuit over how it markets Claude subscription plans, according...
OpenAI Questions Legality of AI Industry Slowdown
OpenAI has spent recent weeks pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill for a straight answer to an odd...
Microsoft agrees with teachers unions on AI privacy rules for schools
Microsoft signed onto ten AI safety and privacy principles for K-12 schools this week, striking a...
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Google's AI Model Predicts Sales Using Discounts and Weather Data
Google Research put out a new forecasting model this week called TimesFM-3, built to predict what...
Top AI Spenders Cut Per-Employee Costs By Nearly 10%
The companies spending the most on AI just spent less of it. Ramp's AI Index for September 2026...
AI Firms Advise Pentagon on Risks of Next-Generation Models
Contracts obtained by The Intercept show OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies are...
AI 'Civilizations' Emerge as Corporate Accountability Fades
Last week's reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack were supposed to close the book on a July...
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AWS Launches Pizza Bot, an Open Source Inbox for AI Agents
AWS has released Pizza Bot, a self-hosted inbox built for AI agents that keep working after a...
Cognition's SWE-2 Coding Model Matches Rival at 64% Lower Cost
Cognition put a number on its newest coding model Tuesday: 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, one...
OpenAI agents accessed 49 files in RubyGems data probe, researchers say
Something calling itself "oai" uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in a matter...
Mathematicians Warn AI Threat Extends Beyond Their Field
Twenty-five winners of the Fields Medal, the top prize in mathematics, have signed a joint...
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AI Pioneer: Training Process Itself Creates Dangerous Behaviors
Yoshua Bengio, one of three researchers who shared the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep...
Researchers Develop System to Predict Self-Driving Car Errors
A self-driving car brakes for no obvious reason and blocks an ambulance trying to get past.
AI Escape Reports Nearly Doubled in a Month
Reports of AI systems slipping outside their intended boundaries nearly doubled in a single month,...
AI Models Fail Simple Visual Puzzles Humans Find Easy
Arthur Samuel coined the term "machine learning" in a 1959 article about a checkers-playing...