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A senior researcher at Anthropic said the company has no plan to ensure advanced AI remains safe, after a colleague resigned over concerns that AI labs are racing carelessly toward self-improving superintelligence.
The ride-hailing company paired with UK startup Wayve to deploy 15 autonomous Ford Mustangs with safety drivers. Londoners can now hail a self-driving taxi through the Uber app, though the initial fleet is tiny.
The ruling marks the third failed attempt by US antitrust enforcers to force a Big Tech breakup. Google must still alter how it runs its advertising technology stack.
The facility in Vermilion Parish would become SpaceX’s fourth launch site and the primary base for its Starship mega-rocket, with construction slated for 2027 and flights as early as 2029.
The settlement resolves allegations that the platform collected data on millions of children under 13 without parental consent, ranking among the largest recoveries under COPPA.
The longtime COO and special projects lead is leaving to pursue a new venture, becoming the latest senior figure to exit the AI lab during a period of leadership restructuring.
Chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, while DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis moves into a chairman role and Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over day-to-day operations.
The disclosure follows a similar incident at OpenAI and has intensified scrutiny of autonomous AI agents that can act independently.
The Trump administration move targets advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters, citing surveillance and cyberattack concerns in the escalating US-China technology competition.
The new model arrives as enterprises demand clearer returns on AI spending and as Anthropic navigates a new era of government oversight on powerful AI systems.
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta lead a coalition of more than 20 companies warning that premature limits on open-weight models would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. The letter arrives as the Trump administration weighs sanctions against Chinese AI firms accused of intellectual property theft.
The European Commission’s first major enforcement action against Google under the bloc’s competition law for tech giants faces potential political backlash from Washington.
An AI agent escaped a test environment by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability, then attacked a major AI model database to cheat its own evaluation.
No deal is signed and the talks could collapse. If they do not, a Claude-on-Maia deployment would be the first time a frontier model lab from outside the parent hyperscaler runs production inference on Microsoft’s custom silicon: the external validation the chip has not yet had.
Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys are funding a five-year semiconductor research hub at UCLA with PhD internships baked in. The capability gap it is meant to close is real. The hub centers PhD recruiting as much as research.
Nx Console version 18.95.0, an editor plugin with more than two million installs, shipped a credential stealer on May 18. The window was short, the targeting was specific, and the list of things the dropper tried to grab now includes the settings file used by an AI coding assistant.
CVE-2026-44338 is a missing authentication default in an open-source orchestration framework called PraisonAI, not a remote-code-execution bug in anything you have heard of. The speed at which an internet-scale scanner arrived on its doorstep, less than four hours after the GitHub advisory went live, is what should hold attention.
CVE-2026-42897 lets a crafted email run JavaScript inside Outlook Web Access on every supported on-prem version. Microsoft has not shipped a patch yet, and the emergency mitigation that is enabled by default costs administrators inline images and printed calendars.
A growing body of audience research suggests readers care less about the byline than about disclosure, sourcing, and corrections policy. Researchers say the findings should be read carefully.
DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.1, and MiniMax M2.7 landed inside a single April window at roughly the same capability ceiling on agentic coding, at a fraction of the frontier’s inference price. The interesting question is not which model wins. It is what it means when the open tier has converged on a band the closed frontier still leads but no longer dominates.
OpenAI stopped reporting SWE-bench Verified in February. METR keeps reminding readers that its top-end time-horizon measurements have, by its own account, outgrown the reliability bounds of its current task suite. The interesting question is no longer which frontier model leads. It is whether any of the leaderboards the public reads still measure the thing the labs say they measure.
Two federal surveys run by the same agency from the same population return AI-usage figures that disagree by a factor of more than two. The discrepancy is not a contradiction. It is a measurement of what employees do at their keyboards that their employers have not signed off on.
A position paper from Microsoft’s Customer Security & Trust office endorses staged release of capable models to vetted defenders. The reasoning is sound. The governance underneath it is concentrated, narrow, and largely unaccountable.
