Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single…
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OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent
OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on…
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene…
OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost
Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging…
OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust
An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple…
Google Deepmind’s AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that’s integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines,…
AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it
Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is…
U.S. court rules Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted…
Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully…
Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI’s next big play
OpenAI is building a “Persistent Mode” for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the…