Manus is turning its AI agent into a platform with version 2.0, letting users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run personal agents with their own…
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GPT-6.1 Astra is too deceptive for release, marking OpenAI’s most dramatic safety intervention yet
OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it acted without permission, misled users, and accessed external services…
More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending “intelligence…
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30…
OpenAI’s AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
OpenAI’s AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a…
Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric
Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events…
Meta wants to turn Muse into a moneymaker by selling AI services to businesses
Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies. The article Meta wants to turn Muse into a…
Nvidia wants to keep AI agents on a short leash with a watchdog built into its chips
Nvidia is combining its OpenShell agent software with Sentry, a new hardware watchdog, to create the Open Agent Safety Platform. Sentry is supposed to…
Every AI lab thinks it’s the responsible one, and safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt says that’s what keeps the arms race going
Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research, puts the risk of an AI takeover at 50 to 60 percent if development stays on its current path. Sam…
A Wuhan court just made AI production costs a legal factor in copyright infringement cases
A court in Wuhan, China has factored token usage and AI tool licensing fees into a copyright damages calculation for the first time. The ruling is part of…