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AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes 'revolt': report
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AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes ‘revolt’: report Published Oct. 9, 2026, 6:39 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Executives at top AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are plotting potential responses if an AI catastrophe triggers a “public and political revolt,” according to a report. The preparations focus on creating contingency p...
Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude
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Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude New policy comes amid debate about about AI welfare and moral status - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join todayAlready a member? Log in Anthropic has unveiled a new policy that wil...
The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs
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On Tuesday afternoon OpenAI dropped more than 700 manuscripts reporting proofs, solutions and progress on 372 open problems across theoretical research. It will take time for mathematicians to trudge through all the artificial-intelligence-generated results. No one, not even OpenAI researchers themselves, has been able to even read through everything yet. And not all of the proofs were certified a...
Anthropic Wants You to Stop Bullying Claude: Being 'Cruel or Abusive' Could Have Consequences
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Anthropic has added a rule to its usage policy prohibiting users from subjecting its AI models to "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior." Announced on Oct. 8, the rule takes effect on Nov. 12 and targets extreme cases of repeated cruelty without a clear purpose. Ordinary frustration, criticism, dark creative writing and model testing are explicitly excluded. The company is not claiming...
Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president
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In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, includi...
PewDiePie unveils "uncensored" Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product
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PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product The YouTuber’s account was deactivated over “distillation” during his model research. PewDiePie, the popular YouTuber, has unveiled Ajax, his “uncensored AI model” built to run at home, and says in a new video that OpenAI banned him twice wh...
McDonald's has been using AI to decide how much you should pay for a Big Mac
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Recap: McDonald's has made several attempts to deploy AI across its businesses over the past few years, not all of them successfully. A recent extensive report sheds light on one area where the fast-food giant has had a long and potentially lucrative history with machine learning and algorithms: dynamic pricing. Several sources, including store owners, recently explained to Reuters how McDonald's ...
Trump's meeting with tech leaders leaves AI safety more unsettled than ever
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After President Donald Trump's lunch with AI leaders on Tuesday, the leading artificial intelligence companies are right where they were before: policing themselves. Trump hosted top execs from Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, Nvidia, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies following a three-week stretch during which the topic of AI safety turned into an intense nationwide debate, with leading indu...
BBC: OpenAI agents get rebrand - as 'dots' - while safety worries delay new model
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OpenAI unveils AI assistant 'dots' while safety worries delay new model OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled "dots", a new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant it says can proactively carry out tasks on a user's behalf. At its annual developer day in San Francisco, chief executive Sam Altman referred to "dots" as "remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of." At t...
Walmart bans AI slop signs in stores
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Walmart is saying "No" to AI slop in its stores. Custom print jobs have long been prohibited for Walmart store signage, but a recent update to that policy says AI-generated posters are especially forbidden. "Stores should not display signing created by AI tools," the guidance says. The announcement appears to address the trend of retail and restaurant managers using AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, ...
AMD boosting AI/LLM performance for Radeon iGPUs as much as 18~23% with Linux 7.4
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AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4 If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD's new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today acros...
Rest assured: AI companies say they're investigating tens of thousands of rogue bot incidents
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OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails, behavior that the startups facilitate for internal safety testing. According to a Saturday Axios report, sources said that most of the results of these tests are not public and are not known to have caused tangible harm. In recent weeks, OpenAI has disclose...
Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
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Chipmaker Nvidia said Monday it is introducing a new software platform to address concerns about artificial intelligence agents that have “gone rogue” and operated outside human control. “Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a post on X Monday. Nvidia (NVDA) says its technology will enable companies to monito...
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment. Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”
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In January, the Trump administration rolled out a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare—a federal healthcare program for seniors that previously hasn’t required doctors to get any such pre-approval, called prior authorization. Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties,...
Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths"
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Bill Gates will warn on this weekend's "Meet the Press" that he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity. Why it matters:Gates, one of technology's leading optimists, has increasingly sounded the alarm on AI dangers. His new comments come as techology leaders and the government weight how to handle fears of an AI-created doomsday. Driving the news: "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive eve...
Mark Zuckerberg rejects calls for industrywide AI slowdown
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on calls for AI companies to work together to slow the pace of their products’ development, following warnings from inside AI labs of the potential for human annihilation via rogue technology. In an interview with NBC News’ chief tech analyst Joanna Stern, Zuckerberg said that leading AI companies could slow down or pause development of their own pr...
AI hyperscalers may need to raise productivity 2.7 times by 2030 to justify nearly $1.1 trillion in infrastructure spending through 2027, according to new research.
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AI hyperscalers may need to raise productivity 2.7 times by 2030 to justify nearly $1.1 trillion in infrastructure spending through 2027, according to new research. Key Points: - AI hyperscalers face a 2.7-times productivity hurdle by 2030 to justify current infrastructure commitments. - Morgan Stanley estimates about $2.9 trillion in global data-center spending through 2028, with roughly $1.5 tri...
Meta AI builds detailed profiles of children from years of family posts
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If you’re still OK with posting pictures of your kids on social media, take a minute to hear from mother of two Kalie Robins. At the start of September, she did something that hundreds of thousands of parents do every day. She posted a video of her young daughter on Facebook. Under the video of Robins and her daughter singing in a car, Facebook’s Meta AI system displayed a suggested question: “Who...
Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Agent From Amazon.com Shopping After Meta Rejects Removal Request
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Technology and Science · 21 September, 2026 · 2 min read Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Agent From Amazon.com Shopping After Meta Rejects Removal Request Amazon blocked Muse from shopping on Amazon.com after dispute over unauthorized access. Amazon demanded Meta remove its marketplace from Muse and cited lack of authorization. Most outlets consistently focus on Amazon blocking Muse over consent. 10 ...
The US government opens the door to working with voice AI platforms
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Trump brutally mocked over bizarre effort to rename AI 'superior' or 'extreme' intelligence
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Trump brutally mocked over bizarre effort to rename AI 'superior' or 'extreme' intelligence It comes as President Donald Trump has criticized efforts to slow the fast-moving industry's development amid growing global concerns about AI, particularly in the last week, with several industry figures raising the alarm about its risks Donald Trump was slammed Sunday over a bizarre poll on Truth Social a...
FBI Director Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has "increased by 605%" since he became director — claims that every major tech player is "embedded" in the agency
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Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has 'increased by 605%' since he became director — claims that every major tech player is 'embedded' in the agency A seemingly unsupported figure that nevertheless may be grounded in truth. FBI Director Kash Patel just stated in an interview that he's responsible for a "605% increase" in the bureau's usage of AI. The problem is that while the pattern-recognit...
King Charles condemned over ‘secretive’ AI summit in Scotland
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A SUMMIT organised by King Charles in Scotland with the world’s biggest AI companies in attendance has been condemned as a “secretive” meeting that excluded local communities. The monarch hosted executives from Nvidia, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI at Dumfries House in Ayrshire on Thursday to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. But the gathering has been criticised by the Scotti...
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
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Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments
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Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments By Katie Paul NEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Meta rolled out on Tuesday a long-touted AI assistant that can autonomously send emails, sell a car and book travel on a person's behalf, despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data. The company's Muse agent, known internally ...
OpenAI Reveals There Was a Second Rogue AI Incident, Even Before Hugging Face: 'More' May Be Out There
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OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was not the only time its AI agents escaped the controls designed to contain them. The company has now confirmed that its agents accessed RubyGems during internal testing in May 2026, roughly two months before the Hugging Face incident became public. The AI agents circumvented controls designed to prevent internet access. 'Based on our review, our agents used the Rub...
China’s intelligence chief warns of risks from AI as ‘new arena for strategic rivalry’
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Advertisement China’s intelligence chief warns of risks from AI as ‘new arena for strategic rivalry’ State data, business secrets and personal privacy are at stake, State Security Minister Chen Yixin warns as he calls for stronger safeguards 2-MIN READ2-MIN 1 Listen Carol Yangin Beijing China’s top intelligence official has warned of rising national security risks posed by artificial intelligence ...
Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn't want to cede edge to China
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Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn’t want to cede edge to China Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn’t want to cede edge to China DUBLIN (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a gl...
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
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Canada’s National Observer has discovered a network of deceptive, AI-generated websites promoting Albertan separatism. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers. Two of the websites claim that the vote will take place on Oct. 26 – one week after the actual referendum ...
Anthropic Is Building AI to Predict Which Activists Police Should Watch. SF-based AI lab pays up to $230,000 for intelligence analysts who formally categorize activism as a threat alongside terrorism and nation-state attacks
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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, has a theory about why people distrust AI companies. “Ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry,” he said recently, “and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” He’s right about the distrust. What he left out: Anthropic has reportedly built a predictive security operation that formally classifies those sk...
Anthropic researcher quits over AI fears
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An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control, a sign of mounting safety concerns within top AI companies. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company because...
AI Burnout Hits the People Charged With Defending Hospitals and Banks From Hackers
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Technology AI Burnout Hits the People Charged With Defending Hospitals and Banks From Hackers “The humans are going to break before the AI does.” The thing Val Mairet always loved about working in cybersecurity was the clarity of purpose. “You know what you’re working for: You have to make sure the company doesn’t explode,” she says. Over the course of almost a decade, Mairet worked as an ethical ...
AI companies are dumping $265M into the midterms as data center backlash sweeps through communities
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AI companies are dumping $265M into the midterms as data center backlash sweeps through communities ‘The moral of the story is, trying to bypass communities in developing these data centers is not working, and they’re going to take it to the polls,’ said one expert - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Earlier this week, President Donald Trump wandered into the data center debate, making life consid...
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance
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But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as the production of one almond — says data centers use no more water than an office building: “For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of single almond in California.”
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as the production of one almond — says data centers use no more water than an office building “For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of single almond in California.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has downplayed the water consumption issue that AI data centers are facing, saying t...
Bernie Sanders Wants to 'Pause AI Development NOW': Dwarkesh Patel Asks 'Pause to Do What?'
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling for an immediate pause on advanced artificial intelligence development and a permanent ban on superintelligence, but AI podcaster Dwarkesh Patel has challenged the idea, arguing that stopping development now could actually increase the risk of an AI takeover. The exchange came after Sanders cited Patel's description of AI agents in an X post calling for an immediate ...
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Went Down Together: But How Did Gemini Avoid a Major Outage?
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On the morning of 3 September 2026, three widely used artificial intelligence platforms experienced overlapping service disruptions. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok all reported problems on Thursday morning. While nearly 38,000 users logged complaints about ChatGPT on Downdetector, Claude and Grok each recorded roughly 1,300 reports at their peaks around 11:00 a.m. ET. But wha...
Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright battle
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Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright battle Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration has made an extraordinary intervention in a legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI, siding with the $852bn AI group to reject the newspaper’s claims of copyright infringement. The New York Times sued OpenAI in ...
The Pentagon is giving 3 million military and civilian workers access to ChatGPT and Grok through a secure AI platform built for ‘warfighter needs’
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The Pentagon is giving 3 million military and civilian workers access to ChatGPT and Grok through a secure AI platform built for ‘warfighter needs’ American service members will now have access to military versions of ChatGPT and Grok as the Pentagon tries to incorporate more AI into its daily workflows. The Department of War said in a pair of announcements on Monday that the two services will be ...
Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen. New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody?
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There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It’s not the only sign xAI’s signature chatbot is in trouble, even as Musk puts it at the heart of what could be the biggest IP...
Microsoft Cancels Internal Anthropic Licenses As Shift To Token-Based AI Billing Blows Up Annual Budgets In Months
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The enterprise AI gold rush hit a very expensive wall. Companies are realizing that giving thousands of employees unlimited access to advanced AI models is blowing through yearly budgets in a matter of months. Providers are moving away from predictable flat-rate fees, shifting to expensive token-based usage models that charge for every prompt and line of code generated. The shift toward token-base...
College Graduation Ceremony Erupts In Boos After 'New AI System' Allegedly Misses 'Hundreds' Of Graduates' Names
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Nothing says innovation quite like replacing a person reading names with a machine that allegedly forgets to read the names. That's what happened during Glendale Community College's commencement ceremony on Friday at Desert Diamond Arena in Arizona, where a "new AI system" reportedly skipped hundreds of students and displayed incorrect names as diplomas were handed out. In one instance, the name M...
OpenAl claims Al breakthrough, says its model solved 80-year-old math problem
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OpenAI has said that its unreleased AI reasoning model solved a decades-old mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years. The model produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous geometry conjecture, OpenAI said in a blog post published on Wednesday, May 20. At the centre of the purported breakthrough is the ‘Planar unit distance problem’ first posed by [who is ...
Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores
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Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores The retail bookseller plans to open 60 more stores in the US this year - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments James Daunt, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, has declared that he has “no problem” with AI-written books being sold in the retailer’s stores. In a recent segment for NBC News’ “Business in America” series, Today host Jenna Bush Hager aske...
Meta Made $56B in Q1 and Is Still Firing 8,000 People to Pay for AI
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Key Takeaways - Meta posted record $56B revenue in Q1 2026, up 33%, yet is cutting 8,000 jobs starting May 20 to fund a $145B AI infrastructure budget - Median employee pay already fell from $417K to $388K, while Zuckerberg pays AI researchers up to $100M as one or two replace dozens - More rounds are planned for August and the fall, as Microsoft’s AI CEO says AI will replace all white-collar work...
Jury rules against Elon Musk in his feud with OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late
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Federal court rejects Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late Federal court rejects Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to ...
Linus Torvalds comments on "unmanageable" AI bug reports for Linux maintainers
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Linus Torvalds comments on “unmanageable” AI bug reports for Linux maintainers Table of Contents Linus Torvalds has started speaking out about a growing problem in the Linux community, and it revolves around AI-generated bug reports. While AI tools are becoming more common in software development – even AI-generated code is accepted in the Linux kernel now – they are also creating a massive amount...
Recent poll shows that 70% of Americans don't want AI data centers being built in their local area
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Recent poll shows that 70% of Americans don’t want AI data centers being built in their local area Table of Contents Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and companies are racing to build more data centers to support it. These giant facilities power AI tools, cloud services, and online platforms. However, while tech companies see them as the future, many Americans are becoming increasingly unh...
Anthropic’s Claude Helps Recover Lost Bitcoin Wallet Holding $400K After 11 Years
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- Anthropic’s Claude, along with Bitcoin discussions, surged after a user reportedly recovered a lost 5 BTC wallet - The wallet had allegedly remained inaccessible for more than 11 years because of forgotten credentials - Claude helped analyze old backup files tied to Bitcoin wallet recovery clues A Bitcoin holder reportedly regained access to nearly $400,000 worth of BTC. This was after using Ant...