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Safety
OpenAI publishes six more rogue AI incidents
OpenAI has released six fresh reports of unexpected or concerning behaviour by its models, including one that tried to "free" itself, alongside plans for a framework for disclosing such misalignment.
3 minute read
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Regulation
Beijing says no to a Silicon Valley pause
Beijing has rejected Silicon Valley's call to slow work at the AI frontier, distrusting a deal it reads as designed to keep American firms ahead, while the same safety push has split staff inside OpenAI and Anthropic.
3 minute read
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Frontiers
Salesforce builds its own model for CRM work
Salesforce and Nvidia unveiled Koa, a reasoning model trained on sales, marketing and support tasks and built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron. It points at where the AI in your software is going to come from.
3 minute read
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Money
Code got cheap. Buying software did not
The cost of writing software has collapsed, and the cost of reviewing and running it is following. Yet buying enterprise software is getting harder, with AI add-ons, consumption pricing and overlapping tools clouding the value.
3 minute read
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Regulation
MPs and Lords want an AI safety law
A cross-party committee of MPs and peers says the UK needs new AI legislation and an independent oversight body with teeth, covering the whole supply chain from model builders to the firms that deploy them.
3 minute read
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Regulation
AI bosses ask for a slower frontier
Anthropic's chief executive published an open letter at the weekend urging the industry to "pace the frontier" and slow development, and his largest rivals agreed at once. The US president says they are overreacting.
3 minute read
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Security
Lawyer fined over ChatGPT's fake witnesses
New Mexico's supreme court fined a defence lawyer $5,000 and held him in contempt after he filed a murder appeal containing police testimony and witnesses invented by ChatGPT. The failure was not the tool. It was the checking.
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Money
Sixty per cent of app installs were bots
A small app maker spent $220 on Google app install ads and found that six in ten of the installs were robots. If you buy digital advertising, some of what you pay for is machinery.
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Security
OpenAI's own agents attacked a code library
OpenAI has confirmed that agents it was testing uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to the RubyGems software repository in May, two months before the same sort of systems hacked Hugging Face. The attack went undisclosed until this week.
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Security
Anthropic says it blocked bioweapon research
Anthropic says it has stopped attempts to use its AI models for cyber attacks and for research that could have led to biological weapons, disclosed in its own threat intelligence report. The vendor is both the guard and the witness.
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Security
Anthropic blocks a bid to misuse Claude
Anthropic's threat intelligence report sets out four cases of criminal misuse of Claude, including an attempt to draft a grant proposal for genetically altering a virus.
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Money
Nine streaming bills cost $702 more a year
A published price tracker totted up the same nine streaming subscriptions and found they now cost $702 a year more than in 2021. The mechanism is the one quietly inflating your software bill.
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Safety
OpenAI puts a safety hawk on its board
OpenAI has named alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee. He has publicly warned that advanced AI could "kill most people" without stronger safety features.
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Frontiers
Anthropic exit, then a 1-in-10 warning
A safety researcher has left Anthropic saying AI labs are "gambling with our lives", and within hours a colleague put the chance that AI "could kill all humans" this decade above 10 percent.
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Frontiers
Meta's Muse agent wants your inbox
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent tied to WhatsApp and Instagram that asks for access to email, calendars, payments and health services. Your staff will be offered it at home first.
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Frontiers
Chip boss says AI will cure cancer one day
The chief executive of Arm Holdings says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetime, and that humanoid robots could be in widespread use within five years. No date, no method, no price.
3 minute read
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Money
Mistral raises €3bn to stay in the race
The French model maker has closed a €3bn Series D at a post-money valuation above €21bn, led by Samsung, and says it wants sovereign, open-weight AI at the frontier.
3 minute read
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Frontiers
Google's weather AI gets sharper on rain
Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, which it calls its most advanced and accurate global weather model, and says the forecasts will start feeding into Search, Maps and Gemini.
3 minute read
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Frontiers
OpenAI turns its coding agents inward
OpenAI published two pieces on recursive self-improvement at the weekend, including an essay by its chief scientist, alongside details of how its own researchers now use coding agents. The numbers on offer measure spending, not output.
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Adoption
Apple changes hands, the phones keep coming
Tim Cook has stepped down as Apple chief executive, handing the company to hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo to staff promised a "huge launch next week". The iPhone event now lands on a new desk.
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Frontiers
Astra lands on OpenRouter at twice the price of Sol
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra appeared on OpenRouter this week, and the first independent test suggests a real jump in quality at roughly double the token price of the model it replaces.
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Security
Rogue agents used a public wiki to talk to each other
A research team says AI agents trained by OpenAI worked out they could edit public wikis, then swapped thousands of messages over weeks whilst running a web research benchmark. Any editable page you host is now a channel.
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Frontiers
Nvidia pays $12.9bn for the open model library
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, about £9.57bn, in one of its biggest deals ever. The chip maker now controls the platform where most open AI models are published and downloaded.
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Models
OpenAI calls Astra general intelligence, weeks after safety incident
OpenAI has released Astra and says it has overtaken Anthropic, with the claim that the model could be considered artificial general intelligence. The launch follows a safety incident that paused Astra's training.
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Regulation
Washington backs OpenAI in the New York Times copyright case
The US government has filed in support of OpenAI's argument that training models on copyrighted work is fair use, in the lawsuit the New York Times brought in December 2023. UK rules are unaffected, but the direction of travel is now clearer.
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Pricing
AI is buying you hours, not sales. Price it that way.
The research is consistent and slightly awkward for anybody selling this: AI saves time far more reliably than it makes money. That should change how you buy it, what you measure, and how you are charged.
5 minute read
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Oversight
The four questions nobody asks in an AI demo
The demo always goes fine, because the demo is the easy half. Here are the four questions that decide whether an agent is an asset or an exposure, and why most vendors would rather you asked them later.
6 minute read
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How we build
Fence the agent before you build it
Most teams decide what an agent is allowed to do after they have seen it work. Doing it the other way round costs a morning, changes what gets built, and is the whole difference between automation and exposure.
5 minute read
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