A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic’s Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The…
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OpenAI’s safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse
OpenAI fired three safety researchers who helped investigate the Hugging Face hack. In an open letter, they warn that the firings are scaring remaining…
Anthropic’s Claude Science creates the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of Johns Hopkins University used Anthropic’s Claude Science to map the entire sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. AI…
OpenAI uncovers Russian and Iranian influence ops that planted fake stories in real news outlets
OpenAI exposed a Russian and an Iranian influence operation and banned the accounts involved. The Russian “Dark Clark” campaign spread disinformation…
One public-facing AI agent on AWS could read, rewrite, and delete every other agent in the region
Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same…
ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with “Intelligent UI,” a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can…
Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over
Anthropic’s new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices…
Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic’s new TOS
Anthropic’s updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse…
Claude can now generate animated explainer videos and live data dashboards from text prompts
Anthropic launched two new beta features for Claude. Dashboards turns data sources like BigQuery and Snowflake into live dashboards from text prompts.…
Zuckerberg’s Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior
Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict…