OpenAI is officially rating its upcoming Astra model as the first system with “critical” cyber capabilities. The company plans to keep it in check by…
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Protests against AI data centers play into China’s hands, Trump says
President Trump has pushed back hard against growing opposition to AI data centers across the US. The article Protests against AI data centers play into…
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models.…
Instagram admits users often can’t tell AI profiles from real people
Instagram is replacing its “AI creator” tag with a new “AI-generated profile” label because users can’t tell AI profiles from real people. Singularity,…
World Labs unveils Atlas, a single AI model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D worlds from just a few photos
World Labs, co-founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, has announced Atlas, a world model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D scenes from just a…
Google Gemini’s new agent-based video analysis cuts token usage by up to 88 percent
Google is adding agent-based video analysis to Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite. Instead of scanning videos frame by frame at a fixed rate,…
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude’s digital watermark. The EU AI Act…
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Fable 5.1 doubles its predecessor’s score on Terminal-Bench-Science…
Google Deepmind’s new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google’s current models are “a little bit below the frontier” but says he’s “100% certain that we will be…
Google’s election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides
Using access granted under the EU’s Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and…