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Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.

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Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record

iOS 27 launched this week, and it includes several new Apple Intelligence-related benefits for iCloud+ subscribers. more…

Readdle updated PDF Expert for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 this week, adding several new features, including searchable handwriting in 29 languages. Here are the details. more…

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting ...

Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.

Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.

King's staff want to get negotiations back on track after years of bargaining.

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in paralle...

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys. [...]

Wait a minute… Is Siri on the Mac good now? It only took a decade, but with this week’s launch of macOS 27 Golden Gate, Siri has finally come to life on the Mac. It’s still in beta, and it’s not perfect, but the update represents a much improved and highly integrated experience that takes into ac...

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max bring several changes to the Main camera and iOS Camera app, and photographer Austin Mann has just published a great review of everything new. more…

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.