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Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban…

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically bett…

Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion…

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as the company seeks to automate its own product development process.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their…

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.

Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

Nanoleaf's Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit comes with nine color-changing LED panels. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit…

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…