Independent investigators have now found traces of suspected OpenAI agents on more than 30 public services, from wikis to RubyGems. At the same time,…
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Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
A former Google DeepMind spokesperson says talk of AI-driven human extinction was “external communication about the possibility of human extinction was…
Claude Fable 5.1’s language is less “load-bearing” than its predecessor’s
Arena.ai analyzed how Claude’s writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of benchmark responses. Fable 5.1 writes more…
GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that’s by design
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says math was deliberately not a priority.…
New Deepseek model V4.1-Flash cuts memory needs for AI agents
Deepseek releases V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with 552 billion parameters that cuts KV cache memory to a quarter of its predecessor. On the DeepSWE…
Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp
Meta unveils Muse, an AI agent that books travel, handles purchases, and sends emails through WhatsApp, complete with a payment feature that runs through…
Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia’s own million-part operation
Nvidia and Palantir want to run supply chains with AI. The article Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia’s own…
AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher’s warnings land on CNN and Fox News
Jacob Coxon, a departing Anthropic researcher, warned on CNN that self-improving AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Safety researchers at…
Top AI spenders cut per-employee costs by nearly 10 percent in August
The Ramp AI Index for September 2026 shows AI spending per employee among the top 1 percent of US companies fell nearly 10 percent in August. The price…
Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO’s bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario
Anthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the extreme scenario, output doubles every 4.5 years and…