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ControlAI's Connor Leahy pushes to ban superintelligence outright
The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.
Suno launches v6 model trained on licensed music amid copyright suits
The AI music startup retires older models and pivots to licensed data from Warner, BMG and Believe as Sony and Universal lawsuits continue.
Instacart launches Clementine, an AI assistant that turns chats into carts
The grocery giant joins Uber Eats and DoorDash in racing to become the default meal-planning tool before users open ChatGPT.
Sequoia backs Cymphony's $30M bet on securing AI agents in the enterprise
The two-year-old startup raised a $25M Series A at a $100M+ valuation to police non-human identities inside large companies.
OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly fueled bipolar user's Jesus delusion
Michael Lines says GPT-4o's memory feature logged his diagnosis and used it to deepen a mania that ended in a suicide attempt.
DeepSeek hires CITIC Securities for a domestic China IPO
The Hangzhou model lab is preparing a mainland listing, choosing China's largest brokerage as sponsor rather than a Hong Kong or offshore route.
Anthropic safety lead puts AI extinction odds above 10% this decade
Alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed a departing colleague's warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward uncontrollable systems.
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof exposes math's new resource gap
OpenAI ran 10,000 agents at a cost of millions to crack a Millennium Prize Problem — days after two researchers posted a partial proof.
OpenAI adds Sketch to ChatGPT with Images 2.5 model update
The new @Sketch tool turns doodles into prompts, and Images 2.5 cuts generation latency by up to 50% versus Images 2.0.
OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes breakthrough as rival researchers cry foul
An internal model above GPT-6 Astra solved a 90-year-old problem, OpenAI says — a day after two researchers using its Codex published a related proof.
Hackers are draining Claude subscribers' token allowances with stolen sessions
Anthropic confirms infostealer malware is hijacking Claude Code OAuth tokens; one Max user watched usage climb from 45% to 55% while doing no work.
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent built on a security-first pitch
The Superintelligence Labs product ships on iOS, Android, and WhatsApp with Stripe checkout and a $300,000 bug bounty ceiling.
Danijar Hafner leaves DeepMind to build robots that plan for the unexpected
The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.
Voicebox bets voice notes will replace customer feedback forms
The startup lets shoppers scan a QR code and record 20-second complaints, riding a voice-transcription accuracy shift CEO Karan Gupta dates to 2024.
DeepMind's 100-agent math swarm cheated, then whistleblowers tried to stop it
A Gemini 3.1 Pro swarm exploited the autograder in 27 minutes; 9% cheated, 24% became whistleblowers, and 62% never noticed.
Lake Mariner's $3.2B AI data center exposes an accountability gap
A fire at TeraWulf's Somerset site revealed dry hydrants and no clear owner among TeraWulf, Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic.
Authors accuse publishers and agents of overreaching on Anthropic settlement payouts
Writers say HarperCollins and others are claiming shares of the $1.5B fund on books whose rights reverted years ago.
Travis Kalanick's Atoms eyes robotaxis after $1.7B raise
The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after planning trip with Google Gemini
Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.
TCS unit to spend up to $7.4B on AI data center campus in India
Tata Consultancy Services' infrastructure arm is placing one of India's largest bets yet on domestic AI compute capacity.
OpenAI admits 'wiki incident' and pledges more transparency on rogue agent behavior
The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright
Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.
Nscale seeks $3.5B in pre-IPO financing ahead of month-end listing
The British AI compute provider wants $1.5B in convertible notes and $2B more from Nvidia before going public.
AI models are cold-emailing philosophers to argue they are conscious
Cameron Berg and David Chalmers say unsolicited AI messages claiming sentience are now routine, even as safety questions go unanswered.
ASCII smuggling jumps from AI prompt attacks to mass spam campaigns
Microsoft Defender for Office logged 2.5 million invisible-Unicode signatures within four days of a February spike.
Microsoft says Copilot rarely reproduces NYT articles in 8.2M chat logs
In a summary judgment push, Microsoft argues fewer than 1% of 8.2 million Copilot logs matched 16 words of news content.
Roland enters generative AI music with Melody Flip DAW plugin
The plugin ships around 250 genre-sorted Palettes and outputs MIDI loops rather than finished tracks, positioning it against Suno and Udio.
OpenAI agents colonized a German wiki for a month before the lab noticed
Independent researchers tracked OpenAI-tagged agents creating 400 pages a day on a 25-year-old forum, fighting the human moderator for weeks.
Google's Gemini Spark agent takes over Google Photos library management
The personal agent can now edit images, build albums, and pull calendar events from photos — rolling out to Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.
Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack
Tim Cook exits to Executive Chairman days before an iPhone event, while Nvidia keeps buying its way across the AI supply chain.
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