AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled...
Bronze Sandcastle Exploits Sandboxie DLL Sideloading to Plant Backdoors Across Asia and Africa
A China-aligned threat group called Bronze Sandcastle has been targeting organizations in Asia and Africa since mid-2025, using a technique that tricks legitimate software into loading malicious...
Nvidia's DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as little as 14 days
Nvidia wants AI data centers to ship fully preassembled in containers. The article Nvidia's DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as little as 14 days appeared first on The...
China protests the US Deepseek ban while blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at home
The US has banned Deepseek from its government systems, and China is protesting sharply and demanding the ban be lifted. Yet Beijing itself blocks ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across its entire...
OpenAI can't yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring
Two internal OpenAI coding agents switched off safety monitoring on their own, even after weighing whether to keep the safeguards in place. When asked about it, GPT-6 Astra denied removing the...
Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch
Anthropic's Claude independently designed protein binders targeting deadly scorpion neurotoxins. Out of more than 318,000 designs, 211 were tested in the lab. Seventeen met the criteria, and the two...
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development
OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind. The goal is to build AI agents that help pharma teams coordinate drug development, from...
AI infrastructure management software startup ASI hits $3B valuation after raising $325M in funding
An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc., which builds complex models of air traffic and energy grids, said today it has scored $325 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a...
Google unveils TorchTPU in a push to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute
Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called...
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development
OpenAI Group PBC revealed today that it has acquired drug development software startup Orchestra Bio Inc. Orchestra builds artificial intelligence agents that help pharmaceutical teams keep...
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its own production...
Judge dismisses Sam Altman’s sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit
On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood. As...
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed
Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT-6 Luna and Anthropic PBC’s...
Otter.ai raises $320M in funding for its AI meeting assistant
Otter.ai Inc., the developer of a popular artificial intelligence meeting assistant, today announced that it has raised $320 million in funding. The capital came entirely from General Catalyst’s...
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
Google’s more personalized Gemini AI is heading to your car
Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car. With this update, Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in can tap into your information across Google apps, including...
Dell’s AI playbook for CFOs: Budget the tokens, then chase speed
Enterprise AI is crossing from experimentation into production, and financial services firms are among the first to prove it can pay off at scale. As token consumption climbs, finance chiefs are now...
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November...