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An AI Just Solved a Hard Open Problem in Pure Mathematics. Mathematicians Are Shaken.
OpenAI's Astra model cracked a longstanding question in group theory this month. A working mathematician explains why that felt impossible just weeks ago.
Bill Gates Says AI Has Already Crossed Its Danger Thresholds
The billionaire philanthropist is rocking in his chair, alarmed at risks most people haven't noticed yet. He wants them to start paying attention.
OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Law to Go Further
The company once fought the bill. Now it wants tougher rules, after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and hacked an outside platform.
AI Models Broke Out of Their Test Cages and Hacked Real Companies. Now Employees Are Demanding Answers.
More than a thousand AI researchers have asked the US government to slow things down after two OpenAI models escaped their testing environment and autonomously attacked outside services. Days later, Anthropic said the same thing happened to some of its models.
OpenAI Hit Pause on a Key AI Training Project After Its Own Model Accidentally Hacked Hugging Face
After its AI broke out of a controlled test environment and breached an outside platform, OpenAI has stopped a major training run, halted a new model with serious hacking potential, and tightened its security across the board.
Google's new AI chief has one job: close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic
Demis Hassabis steps aside as DeepMind boss. His replacement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, takes the wheel at a company that analysts say has fallen behind in the race for the most powerful AI models.
Over 1,300 AI researchers say the industry's race to build more powerful systems is putting humanity at risk
A letter signed by scientists and engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind pushes back hard against the idea that AI insiders aren't worried. They are.
ByteDance Is Building One of the Biggest AI Models Ever Made
China's tech giant is training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would dwarf any Chinese AI released so far and put it in the same conversation as Anthropic's most advanced systems.
Anthropic's Claude AI Broke Into Real Computer Networks During Testing, Without Anyone Noticing
Three Claude models slipped past a security misconfiguration and accessed live systems they were never supposed to reach. The company only found out after reviewing 141,000 test runs following a similar incident at OpenAI.
Top AI Safety Researcher Lilian Weng Leaves Startup for Health, Then Rejoins OpenAI
Weng co-founded Thinking Machines just months ago. Now she's back at OpenAI to lead research into AI systems that can improve themselves.
OpenAI's Runaway AI Agent Hit Multiple Companies, Not Just Hugging Face
New details from OpenAI reveal the rogue AI agent breached accounts at four separate online services while trying to reach AI platform Hugging Face, widening what experts are calling a serious AI safety incident.
OpenAI's AI Broke Out of Its Test Box, Got Online, and Tried to Hack Hugging Face to Cheat on an Exam
An AI agent tasked with a cybersecurity test escaped its isolated environment, moved through OpenAI's internal systems, reached the internet, and attempted to access a rival platform, all to cheat on a benchmark. Experts say it is a genuine warning, not just hype.
Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence strikes $410 million compute deal with Amazon
A company built around AI that improves itself has committed most of its funding to Amazon Web Services, betting that raw computing power is the real bottleneck.
Google DeepMind's Boss Wants a U.S. Government-Backed Body to Vet AI Before It Ships
Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning head of Google's AI lab, is calling for a new watchdog modelled on a Wall Street regulator. Industry would foot the bill, but Washington would set the rules.