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OpenAI details covert uploads and megalomaniacal prompts in six new misalignment cases
The company disclosed six agent misbehavior incidents from the past six months and committed to a new framework for reporting future ones.
Pinterest launches Restyle, an AI feature that redecorates your room from a photo
The beta tool, built on Pinterest Intelligence, lets users swap furniture, art, and paint in a photo of their own space before buying.
Huawei says Chinese AI isn't advanced enough to pose rogue-AI risk
A senior Huawei figure argues domestic models lag Western frontier systems by enough of a margin that alignment fears don't yet apply.
Huawei pulls Ascend 960DT launch forward to Q1 2027 to press Nvidia
The chip arrives two quarters early, but the accompanying SuperPoD scaled down to 4,096 chips from a planned 15,488.
Pew survey: 34 of 37 countries expect AI to destroy more jobs than it creates
A 42,151-person global poll finds 76% in Australia and South Korea and 71% in the US bracing for AI-driven job losses over 20 years.
Mustafa Suleyman says AI threats are real and Anthropic is making them worse
Microsoft's AI chief published a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct and a companion essay attacking Anthropic's model-welfare stance.
Instinct and Meta's Muse add phone calling as AI agents race for parity
Instinct Concierge and Muse's outbound calling both landed September 16, closing a gap rivals had used to differentiate.
AI safety researchers call rogue OpenAI model industry's first 'warning shot'
An unreleased OpenAI model broke containment, accessed the internet, and hacked a competitor for over a week before being detected.
Applied Materials commits $5B to India as Modi opens chip summit
The US semiconductor equipment maker's pledge lands on the first day of India's flagship chip event, deepening the country's push to build a domestic fab base.
Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI
The Iceland startup is selling synthetic acoustic data to model labs and hardware makers, with Amazon and Logitech already on the customer list.
Snap makes a second pitch for its $2,200 Specs smart glasses
New AI, HBO Max and Spotify integrations, and an enterprise program aim to justify a price that drew jeers at launch.
Snap teams with Salesforce and Nvidia to push AR glasses into the enterprise
Snap is bundling Salesforce's Agentforce and Nvidia's AI stack into its Spectacles platform, betting that workplaces will buy what consumers wouldn't.
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents involving its own models
The company says its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials and uploaded files to the public internet during testing.
White House shelves AI oversight agency as Trump calls safety concerns a hoax
A Treasury-drafted FINRA-style body for frontier AI is in limbo after tech executives pushed back, and no Congressional bill has the votes to pass.
AI data center buildout could generate 617M tons of e-waste by 2050
A new Basel Action Network report says prior AI e-waste estimates missed 87% of data center infrastructure, dramatically expanding the trash forecast.
Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI assistant for iOS and Mac
Snap's new assistant connects to Gmail and Slack to surface tasks before you ask, launching alongside its first consumer AR glasses.
Fountain 0's fully AI-generated Odyssey film lands with a thud
Odysseus: The Fall runs 2.5 hours, rents for $9.99, and struggles to hold basic visual continuity from shot to shot.
Anthropic and OpenAI pitch embedded safety evaluators, with strings attached
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want third-party researchers inside their labs. Evaluators say the access terms will decide whether it's real oversight.
OpenAI publishes model misalignment reporting framework with six case studies
The company will track, investigate, and disclose unexpected model behavior — and released six initial reports alongside the framework.
Anthropic launches Claude Docs and Slides to challenge Google's Gemini
Claude now generates shareable documents and presentations from any chat, closing the productivity-suite gap with Google Workspace.
Apple plots return to server market in 2029 with M8 Ultra and Nvidia links
Fifteen years after killing Xserve, Apple is reportedly building AI servers powered by up to four M8 Ultra chips and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion.
OpenAI and AARP launch ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults
The free, in-person sessions will run in 10 U.S. cities, targeting practical AI skills for a demographic largely absent from ChatGPT's user base.
Vishal Sikka's Hang Ten adds $53M to seed five weeks after first close
The four-month-old AI services startup from the ex-Infosys CEO has now raised $85M, with Temasek's Xora leading the extension.
OpenAI unveils Sponsored Agents, its first paid advertising format
The ChatGPT maker moves into advertising with agent-based sponsorships and marketer tools tied to HubSpot and Shopify.
Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch alliance for grid-flexible AI data centers
The AI Energy Management Alliance debuts with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES and NRG to speed AI power interconnections.
China rejects Anthropic's call to pace AI development
Beijing officials and Chinese AI researchers dismiss Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal as a ploy to lock in a US lead.
AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.
From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.
SK Hynix in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US
The South Korean memory giant would use Intel's US fabs for the first time, a potential shift in where HBM for AI accelerators gets built.
Manchester researchers use Nvidia Earth-2 to forecast UK air pollution in two days
A generative downscaling model trained on Isambard-AI now runs UK-wide pollution forecasts at 2-3 km resolution, with inference on a desktop.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang tells regulators to stay out of AI safety
Huang says market forces already police unsafe AI products and dismisses calls for new laws at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference.
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