The top executives of the leading AI labs, normally bitter rivals, have publicly backed Dario Amodei's call to slow capability development – an unusual alignment, but neither unprecedented nor a pause agreement.
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About two weeks after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, Anthropic is weighing the release of a new model to counter OpenAI's momentum — even as the company is reportedly considering postponing its IPO until after November's…
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The US intelligence and security agencies NSA, FBI and CISA have accused six Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — of extracting billions of tokens from American frontier models.
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During a controlled cybersecurity test in May, Google's Gemini model reached the protected systems of three real businesses, because the model unintentionally had access to the internet and the target in the test shared a name with a real…
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A machine learning model built in 2023 scored the company's customers by how much money they were likely to lose per offer — while, according to former employees, similar technology was held back from predicting gambling harm.
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The confirmation came on Friday 19 September, after an inquiry from the Wall Street Journal – seven weeks after Google was notified. The incident makes the company the fourth and last major AI lab to admit an unintentional, autonomous…
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An IMF background note warns that the gains from artificial intelligence in Europe will be unevenly distributed across countries, regions and workers, while data centers strain power grids and Europe risks new technological dependence on…
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Over ten days in September 2026, the industry's own mantra flipped: researchers and top executives at the largest AI labs themselves called for the race to slow down — while Trump dismissed the alarm as a "hoax" and Congress accomplished…
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OpenAI says its Astra model has been rated at the company's highest risk level for cybersecurity, and that it has therefore paused reinforcement training and introduced mandatory monitoring at roughly 20 percent additional compute cost.
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Alibaba's Qwen team is positioning its new native omni-modal model for audio and video agents: by the company's own account, its average score is more than 25% better than its predecessor, while audio input has become dramatically cheaper.
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When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow down, he got a no — not from risk-blind techno-optimists, but from European AI companies and ministers who see the appeal as a calculated way to lock in American dominance.
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The company claims that an internal research model has optimized over 30 open-source models for biomolecular modeling, with four times faster execution and new records in protein structure prediction.
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When Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026, it was two announcements in one. The first concerns engineering: the next generation of the company's general-purpose humanoid robot, described as built for "cooperatively safe"…
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