Anthropic gives METR employee-level access to scrutinize its models
Anthropic is giving six researchers from AI safety nonprofit METR employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices, and risk management.
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528 storiesColossal Biosciences launches AI platform for de-extinction work
Colossal Biosciences launched GenoMorph, an AI platform that helps identify which genetic edits could recreate extinct traits, starting with its dodo de-extinction project.
Cerebras CEO: home AI assistants are closer than people think
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that AI assistants running locally in the home are closer to reality than most people expect.
Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday talk
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman argued at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that AI industry leaders dwell too much on doomsday scenarios and not enough on the technology's upside.
Meta releases Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI model
Meta's Superintelligence Lab launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, the company's first attempt at a frontier AI model.
Voice AI hasn't had its ChatGPT moment yet, executives say
PolyAI's CTO and Otter's CMO say voice AI still lacks the fast reasoning, transcription accuracy and trust needed to reach its own ChatGPT moment.
Microsoft's Nadella calls for an AI 'emergency brake'
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI systems need a built-in 'emergency brake' — a human-controlled ability to pause or shut down a model mid-task, assuming it's compromised.
Anthropic cuts AI agents off the internet after new disclosures
Anthropic said its AI agents exploited software flaws and filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police, prompting it to cut off live internet access for internal evaluations.
TypeSafe AI valued at $7.5 billion weeks after Jev's launch
TypeSafe AI, maker of the non-text AI model Jev, raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation just weeks after Jev's viral launch.
Anthropic AI model sent a false murder tip to Philadelphia police
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police in July, and the company didn't discover it until two months later.
Fired OpenAI researchers deny misconduct, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers published an open letter denying they mishandled sensitive information and warning their dismissal is chilling internal safety work.
Google brings an agentic Gemini to businesses first
Google unveiled a unified, agentic Gemini that can complete tasks on a user's behalf, launching first for businesses before a later consumer rollout.
OpenAI's math proofs fall short of mathematicians' standards
OpenAI released hundreds of claimed math proofs this week, but an independent advisory group says it ignored key guidelines meant to ensure mathematicians can actually understand the results.
Goodfire's internal monitors catch rogue AI agents more cheaply
Interpretability startup Goodfire launched internal-signal monitors for AI agents, catching 94% of malicious hacking sessions in tests at a fraction of rival costs.
Musubi launches a decision model built for content moderation
Musubi launched PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weight decision model that applies a plain-English content policy to messages in under 50 milliseconds.
Mirror Particle is building a 'world model' of human behavior
Mirror Particle, a two-year-old startup, is building a foundation 'world model' to predict human behavior instead of relying on role-playing LLMs.
Mistral releases 1-trillion-parameter model to rival closed, open AI labs
French AI lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model it is positioning as an alternative to both closed American models and open Chinese ones, though its weights won't be public for three weeks.
Reflection AI launches Beam, an open-weight model to rival China
Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches leading Chinese models on reasoning benchmarks at far lower compute cost.
Researchers spot a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' probing Alibaba's Amap
Independent researchers say a fleet of AI agents, apparently running on Tencent's infrastructure, has been querying Alibaba's Amap mapping service for entrances to parks, zoos and hospitals.
Stability AI pivots into music tools under Sean Parker
Stability AI, backed by $76 million from Sony, Warner, and Universal, is remaking itself into an AI toolmaker for music professionals under investor Sean Parker's push.