Iris-mini and Iris-pro Lead Open-Weight Search Agent Class

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 model fixes 96 blocks per token with unbounded depth, visualized on a screen.

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 AI outperforms, rated stronger economic performer by Andon Labs. Data visualization, tech innovation.

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 GPT-6 Astra AI model, with glowing neural network lines, representing advanced, efficient AI.

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...

AI Tools & Apps

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Clearview AI's new tool for police to map online life, showing a digital interface with facial recognition.

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 AI analyzing real-time conversation, identifying over 20 speakers with advanced audio technology.

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...

September 6, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft chatbot logs, skewed data, overstating NYT article use, digital analytics, AI, technology news.

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...

September 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Smartphone displaying Instagram's AI label over a blurred image, symbolizing flawed content identification.

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...

September 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Business & Startups

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, OpenAI CEO, speaks at a tech conference, discussing the company's 2026 IPO plans.

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...

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, speaks at a tech conference, discussing the ill-advised 2026 IPO.

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...

Research & Benchmarks

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 student uses laptop, AI ban for graded work sparks debate on skills.

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.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk, prominent tech leaders, support AI oversight. OpenAI will not IPO.

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 Dario Amodei discusses AI development slowdown, citing key factors in a thoughtful interview.

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...

Policy & Regulation

September 11, 2026 • 3 min read

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 Claude lawsuit: Deceptive subscription claims, legal documents, and a gavel on a wooden desk.

Anthropic Accused in Lawsuit of Deceptive Claude Subscription Claims

Anthropic is facing a class action lawsuit over how it markets Claude subscription plans, according...

September 11, 2026 • 4 min read

OpenAI Questions Legality of AI Industry Slowdown

OpenAI has spent recent weeks pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill for a straight answer to an odd...

September 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft executive and teachers union leader shake hands, symbolizing agreement on AI privacy rules for schools.

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...

September 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

Google AI model predicts sales using discount and weather data, displayed on a tablet with charts and graphs.

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...

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Graph showing top AI spenders reducing per-employee costs by nearly 10%, highlighting efficiency gains.

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 experts advise Pentagon officials on risks of next-gen AI models, cybersecurity, and national security.

AI Firms Advise Pentagon on Risks of Next-Generation Models

Contracts obtained by The Intercept show OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies are...

September 9, 2026 • 4 min read

AI-generated cityscapes and data streams symbolize emerging AI civilizations amidst fading corporate accountability.

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...

September 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

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, a powerful AI, shown on a screen with code, demonstrating its efficiency.

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 RubyGems files in data probe, researchers confirm. Cybersecurity, data breach.

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 discuss AI threats, a complex issue impacting various fields, with graphs and equations visible.

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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