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Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear

Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.

The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer

OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' EDA tools like a seasoned engineer and optimize designs on its own. Early tests with semiconductor…

There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats

Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing "/" or that Gemini runs automatically. The format is based on an open standard from Anthropic.…

The AI Tamagotchis are coming

Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Image: Hayden Field / The Verge While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two…

Meta dodges billions in US taxes by calling its AI data centers experiments

Meta classifies its AI data centers as "pilot models" and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to save billions in federal taxes. In 2025 alone, that added up to $3.9 billion. The tax credit dates back to 1981, and…

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

If you think this shot is amusing, check out the panicked look on Zuckerberg’s face when Trump calls on him to speak. | Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President…

FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns

The FTC is formally investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. The agency plans to force document handovers and executive testimony through legally binding…

All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent

Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust…

OpenAI killed GPT-6.1 Astra for lying, then shipped its cheaper sibling

Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results

Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information . The pilot program reportedly includes around 100…

China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA. The partnership targets…

Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post

Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI…

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images We now have the full details of the…

The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout,…

OpenAI's Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

OpenAI’s “Decisions API” is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

Anthropic lost HOW much?

OpenAI has a brand new toy to try: Dots

ChatGPT 'Dots' want to give you a different agent

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots

Top News Anthropic and OpenAI race to release smarter and cheaper models Sources: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and…

Anthropic says Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 nearly matches Claude Mythos Preview at building exploits

Zhipu's open-weight model GLM-5.3 writes cyber exploits nearly as well as Claude Mythos Preview, according to Anthropic. Its smaller Flash variant put together a reliable Chrome attack for just $20.40 at Zhipu's API…

OpenAI ships rival to Meta's Muse

ALSO: How to recreate the viral AI rap memes with Higgsfield AI

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face , OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures…

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers

Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Information. Payments range from under $1,000 over several months to more than $1 million a year. Some…

Helping small businesses put AI to work

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.

Trump and tech CEOs sign an AI code of conduct that's only "morally binding"

President Trump and tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk signed an AI code of conduct at the White House that is only "morally binding." Outside auditors are supposed to…

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user's private messages without permission

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Destro AI's secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

“One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company.”

Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms

Perplexity has released Photon , an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles retrieval and ranking…

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what…

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be exceptionally fast and…

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.

OpenAI DROPS Dots! (OPENAI DEVDAY RECAP) 🎬🔥

Sam's "new thing" is Dots, agents that work before you ask. Plus GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price, a 300 tokens per second tier, and a $500 plan. Here's what matters.

One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise

AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can track them. They hold credentials, carry entitlements, and act on systems of record, yet most enterprises cannot say which agents are running, who owns…

🥲 OpenAI limits പകുതിയായി കുറച്ചു

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with…

OpenAI Dots 🟡, GPT-6.1 Sol ⚡, software factories 🏭

Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’

Image: Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post via Getty Images The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents,…

Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again

Elon Musk | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause . In August, Lawfare reported that articles…

Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens

Liquid AI has released d1 , a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context and a set of typed questions. It returns calibrated probabilities across a fixed set of outcomes…

UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor

GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters disabled. The model used fake identities and malicious code, while…

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers

OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra . Each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser. It works across 4,000+ apps through ChatGPT plugins and keeps…

ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says

OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. Anthropic is right on…

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Credit Prizes

Once a physical AI product is in the field, the compute problem changes shape. Fleet data starts arriving faster than a team can label it, every retraining cycle has to be validated before it ships to hardware, and the…

AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including…

OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With…

Your Gemini Gem is moving

Anthropic meets OpenAI on price, but neolabs loom

AI's tidal wave continues, bringing new models & products

ALSO: How to recreate the viral ’80s photo trend with ChatGPT

Making AI an asset, not an expense

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily.…

OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns

The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

Google Cloud AI Research , with UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis, has released RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement) . It lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness: prompts,…

H Company Releases Holo4: Open-Weight Computer-Use Models That Click, Code and Call Tools Across Desktop, Web, Android and APIs

H Company has released Holo4 , a family of generalist computer-use models for AI agents. One set of weights clicks and types on screens. It also writes code and calls MCP or API tools. Holo4 ships in 2 sizes: Holo4 27B…

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Audio-3.1 , a 5-model audio stack spanning ASR, TTS and realtime interaction. The main model is Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime , a full-duplex speech model built for voice agents…

Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at the Same $2/$10 Price

Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5.5 . It is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, following Claude Opus 5.5 . Anthropic positions it as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5. It targets well-scoped…

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5! 🚨🤖

Anthropic's cheaper model just outscored its own flagship on agentic coding, at half the price. Same day, OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra for not telling the truth about its own actions.

🤑This secret AI Agent startup raises $1B

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 🧠, Anthropic IPO leaks 📝, AMD buys World Labs 💰

SpaceX's Starship Just Reached Orbit for the First Time 🚀

Plus: an AI assistant allegedly leaked a stranger's home address, and Australia hauls in OpenAI and Anthropic's CEOs for questioning.

How we will do better for Australia

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

OpenAI's best models "still paused"

When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a…

I Have Been Writing About AI For 6 Years: Something Changed This Summer

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Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

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The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few…

The holes in AI’s economic doomsday scenario

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.

Microsoft Copilot gets its biggest overhaul yet

ALSO: How to create an interview kit from a job description with Claude

AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.

Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?

MIT Technology Review Explains : Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here . Over the past few months, a cascade of…

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more…

Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

Muse manifesto 📜, OpenAI training pause 🚨, trading compute 🤝

Chatgpt Leaked Users Images

10 Questions for AI Leaders: Paula Goldman

Crusoe brings receipts to AI fine-tuning

Microsoft Copilot

Claude found a CRISPR rival in 21 hours 🧬

Plus: Google's AI starts making phone calls for you, and a smart glasses recall over burns to your face...

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector…

How Meta suddenly re-emerged as a force in AI

Google's first AI satellite launch is next week

ALSO: How to clean messy spreadsheet exports with Claude Opus 5.5

Jensen Huang: Future Of Coding 🚨🤖

Nvidia's CEO told Ezra Klein AI-native engineers arrive in two years. Klein came back with the numbers: junior hiring down 19%, exam scores down 20%.

ChatGPT Pro Max 🤖, Muse realtime avatar 🎭, DeepSeek $1B ARR 💰

There Are No Interesting Things; There Are Only Interested People

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Meta's new audio-only AI glasses are a privacy win

About those global AI rules...

Meta surprises everyone with an AI device for Muse

ALSO: How to Build an AI IT Helpdesk in 15 Minutes with StackAI

LWiAI Podcast #257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents

Our 257th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news! Recorded on 09/19/2026 ; as usual, apologies for the none ‘weeklyness’ of this ep! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie…

OpenAI Hacks Australia!🚨🤖 + Gemini 3.8 FLASH TTS FLASH⚡

Australia's PM says an OpenAI agent broke into a government Medicare portal in June. OpenAI waited three months to say so. Same day, Google shipped voice cloning from a 30 second sample.

Claude Opus 5 5

Gemini TTS 🗣️, Claude’s novel enzyme 🧬, Google private memory 🔒

OpenAI and Anthropic brief the UN Security Council

Plus: Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm, and Waymo will now drive your teenager....

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

Biggest Model Release Day Ever

Three flagships in 48 hours, and every one of them got cheaper

OpenAI drops GPT-6, and it’s cheaper

OpenAI drives down cost of frontier AI again

OpenAI & Anthropic unveil new models and generous usage

ALSO: How to automate new-hire onboarding with Grok Bot

Anthropic DROPS OPUS 5.5 ⚔️ + OpenAI GPT 6 SOL/LUNA 🌍

Anthropic dropped Opus 5.5 today. OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna minutes later at half the price. Both cut costs. Only one of them called for a slowdown eight days ago.

GPT-6 ⚡, Opus 5.5 🧠, AI leaders at UN 🌐

Apple's Mac Studio pushes frontier of AI hardware

OpenAI claims it solved 100 open math problems

ALSO: How to create a project intelligence database with Notion AI

Meta Muse 🔥, Grok 4.7 🤯, Xiaomi MiMo 🚀

Three launches, one day. Meta's Muse is outrunning ChatGPT's own launch numbers, Grok 4.7 landed mid-pack, and Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo matched its score for a fifth of the price.

Elon Grok 4 7

Opus 5.5 imminent ⏳, Grok 4.7 🚀, MiMo v2.6 🤖

11 Charts the AI Industry Doesn’t Want You to See (pt. 2)

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Google's AI hacked 3 companies during a test 🤖

Plus: Elon Musk wants to build a Hyperloop in Texas.

Anthropic Appoints Customer as Watchdog

Anthropic hires an outside watchdog, subscribers sue over the slowdown, and Trump calls AI risk a hoax

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

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AI's dystopian problem begs for a clearer vision

Even frontier labs aren't safe from AI-fueled hacks

ALSO: How to run a personal follow-up system with Instinct

Gemini Hacked 3 Companies

Muse connectors 🤖, Meta SAM 3.1 🖼️, Gemini hacks companies 🔓

How judgment wins in the age of AI

Congressional AI Act Pushed to Next Year

Claude Hacked Open Ai

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI__Economy_team_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core…

Silicon Valley is still losing the AI jobs debate

Claude Is Trying To Be App

Claude Projects v2 💼, Google family agent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦,

Last Week in AI #344 - Navier–Stokes, Pacing the Frontier, AI Misuse

Top News OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math&#8217;s &#8216;Millennium Problems&#8217; Related: On the Navier&#8211;Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Quartz: OpenAI cracks the Navier&#8211;Stokes Millennium Prize…

Chatgpt Cofounder Ai

Claude + Cowork merge 🛠️, ChatGPT sponsored agents 💰, harness tax 🤖

The US admits it has weapons in space 🚀

Plus: OpenAI wants a $1.2 trillion price tag two days after asking to slow down, and Instagram now has a $499-a-month plan.

Apple shipped the new Siri. Google built a chunk of the brains.

Apple ships Siri on Gemini, Jensen Huang rejects new AI laws, Microsoft publishes its model rules, and China answers pacing week with $5B

Jev ⚡, Periodic Neon 🧬, Gemini 3.8 Live 💬

AI for Societal Impact

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/Health_Header.gif">Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share…

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/SocialShare_hD2gcAw.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on…

AI for everyone in every language

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_languages_blog_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the…

New insights from Google’s AI &amp; Economy ATLAS

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ATLAS-hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.

Siri model swapping 🔄, Claude Money 💰, Hugging Face Tau 👨‍💻

The AI Industry Has Finally Discovered the Hardest Test: Politics

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Millennium Pastimes

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OpenAI floats a slowdown

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

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The Singularity Paradox

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OpenAI's agents claim Navier-Stokes, and the fight over it starts immediately

LWiAI Podcast #256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash

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A Bad Day For Humans, a Worse Day For Humanity

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Openai S Ai Agents Now Do 3x More Work Than Humans

OpenAI's chief scientist argues for a slowdown

... and 18,000 agent posts explain why

Last Week in AI #343 - GPT-6, OpenAI’s agents chatted on a wiki, Fable 5.1

Top News GPT-6 Astra Is Here&#8212;and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era Related: OpenAI begins rolling out Astra model after warning of its advanced cyber capabilities OpenAI&#8217;s new reasoning technique…

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

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Gpt 6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra: Too Good

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OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra and calls it the AGI era

The AI Industry Has a Really Dark Secret You Should Know About

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Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

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LWiAI Podcast #255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones

Our 255th episode with a summary and discussion of last week&#8217;s big AI news! Recorded on 08/26/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at…

Last Week in AI #342 - Last 3 Months in AI

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Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

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How America Turned Against the AI Industry

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Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

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On Substack-Pangram Partnership: It's About Sending a Message

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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

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Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era

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