Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

Federal Register drops Alibaba AI search tool after FBI flags Chinese models

US officials pulled a Chinese AI search tool from the Federal Register website on Wednesday, Reuters reported, after social media users spotted the Qwen model on a government site despite the FBI's...

Musk's AI Safety Push Collides With Trump's 'Hoax' Claim in a Week of Shifting Alliances

Elon Musk spent the past week navigating a split over AI safety, agreeing with rivals Dario Amodei and Sam Altman that foundation model labs should slow down, then facing pushback from President...

Unsealed Court Documents Reveal Microsoft and OpenAI Internal Worries Over Copyright

Newly unsealed court documents show that executives at Microsoft and OpenAI had significant concerns about how their AI systems were built using publishers' content. According to The Hollywood...

Anthropic Taps Accenture Unit as First Embedded Model Evaluator

Anthropic's plan to bring outside safety evaluators inside its labs has its first participant: Accenture. Staff from the consulting giant will work within the company to scrutinize its models and...

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times ' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would...

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an "entirely false" US intelligence report generated with the help of AI tools, according to a CNN report . That erroneous intelligence...

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually...

Anthropic opens AI-powered biology research lab

Anthropic PBC has opened a wet lab, a facility dedicated to biology research, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reuters reported today that the company will use robots to automate certain scientific...

AI Experts Warn Independent Safety Evaluators Lack Protections in Open Letter

More than 100 AI experts and evaluators have signed a public letter warning they lack the resources and protections needed to test frontier AI models, CNBC exclusively reported. The letter, organized...

Anthropic says Claude handles over a quarter of its AI research work

Anthropic says its chatbot Claude is leading 26 percent of its AI research and development work, up one percentage point from last March. The company said Claude does not operate fully autonomously...

Google's CC Becomes an AI Agent for Family Organization

Google is testing a new version of its experimental AI agent, CC, now focused on helping families coordinate their households. The agent runs on its own Google account, which up to six family members...

FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

An AI tool is set to start advising air traffic controllers on managing air traffic in the congested airspace above the Washington, DC, area. The expected launch would be the first step toward a...

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

MariaDB 13 Expands Oracle Compatibility and Improves Developer Experience and Observability

MariaDB Community Server 13.0 has reached General Availability (GA) and is now officially stable. This release introduces a range of new features, deprecations, and performance improvements...

Claude couldn’t hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.

Three security researchers at Hacktron AI found a memory-corruption bug in a widely used image library. Finding it was the easy part. The hard part was turning it into something that works on a real...