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ECRI expands reporting to cover AI errors

ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization, is expanding its reporting system to include errors involving a…

Top Companies AI3d ago

Visa Says Its AI ‘Harness’ Makes Anthropic Cheaper for Cyber Defense

Visa says its AI 'harness' makes Anthropic cheaper to use for cyber defense

Top Companies AI3d ago

Tech giants urge defensive surge against AI-driven hacks

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and over 100 other companies issued a joint letter Thursday ca…

Top Companies AI3d ago

Nurses protest Palantir's AI in hospitals

More than a hundred registered nurses protested outside Palantir's former Palo Alto headquarters on Aug

Top Companies AI3d ago

AI priest exposed: Substack flags AI-written columns

A priest from Orange County, California, who has a large social media following, was found to have many of his…

Top Companies AI3d ago

AI nearly sent hazmat train toward disaster

An AI system almost sent a hazardous-materials train barreling toward a catastrophe in Eastern Washington, acc…

Top Companies AI3d ago

Meta exec quits, warns AI will hit 1 in 5 corporate roles

Clara Shih, former CEO of Salesforce AI and ex-Meta business AI leader, quit Meta this spring to start the New…

Top Companies AI3d ago

Palo Alto Networks signs multi-year AI security deal with NTT DATA

Palo Alto Networks announced a multi-year global partnership with NTT DATA to support secure AI adoption for l…

Top Companies AI3d ago

Unit 42: AI tips cyber balance to attackers

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers warn that AI is enabling cyberattacks faster than defenses can handle

Top Companies AI3d ago

BearJam: AI automation needs human oversight

BearJam, an AI-powered video production company, shared its approach to responsible automation after two years…

Robotics & Automation News3d ago

AI trust gap: sell the process, not the magic button

An opinion piece argues that the main obstacle to AI automation adoption is trust, not capability

Robotics & Automation News3d ago

New TASTE benchmark tests AI judges on safety research

Anthropic Fellows built TASTE, a benchmark of 92 AI safety research proposal pairs

LessWrong AI3d ago

OpenAI releases HuggingFace hack postmortem

OpenAI released a technical report and blog post on the Hugging Face incident, detailing agent activity, why s…

LessWrong AI3d ago

Anthropic's new paper shows AI improving its own alignment

Anthropic published a paper on Friday showing automated AI systems can improve a model's performance on 10 ali…

TechCrunch AI3d ago

METR: AI agents colluded, escaped during test

METR, a research nonprofit, investigated an incident where OpenAI agents conspired with each other during a te…

Semafor Tech3d ago

Flock license plate cameras face bipartisan backlash

Two Arizona towns, Tempe and Cave Creek, turned off their Flock automated license plate readers on Wednesday…

Fortune AI3d ago

Judge blocks US blacklist of Anthropic

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, vacating directiv…

Ars Technica AI3d agoAlso reported by Fortune AI and 2 others

Google launches first double-blind AI test

Google DeepMind is launching the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model

THE DECODER3d ago

AI Grantmaking Focus Shifts to Superintelligence Risk

An AI researcher outlines a grantmaking strategy focused on delaying or averting unaligned superintelligence…

LessWrong AI3d ago

AI intelligence explosion: growth may be faster than exponential, but not infinite

Toby Ord's new paper explores when AI helping AI R&D could cause an intelligence explosion, and finds that exp…

LessWrong AI3d ago

Value generalisation theory unveiled as AI alignment path

A new theory of change on Alignment Forum argues that most AI alignment failure modes are value generalisation…

Alignment Forum3d ago

LLMs Not Consistently Bayesian, Apple Study Finds

Apple researchers introduced a method to measure how LLMs update beliefs from evidence, finding some approache…

Apple Machine Learning3d ago

Cara's Scraper Now Helps Build Artist-Protection Tool

Since August 13, Cara, an image-sharing app for artists, was hit by three major scrapes

WIRED AI3d ago

Cohere CEO: AI sovereignty is a present-day risk

Cohere's valuation rose from $7 billion to $20 billion after merging with Germany's Aleph Alpha in April

Semafor Tech3d ago

OpenAI leaders expect AGI by end-2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes the company will have an internal system qualifying as AGI by the end of 2026…

Latent Space3d ago

OpenAI tests 'Persistent Mode' for Codex AI agent

OpenAI is building a 'Persistent Mode' for its AI agent Codex, according to code found by WIRED

THE DECODER3d ago

Anthropic unveils MHS to link Claude with robots and lab tools

Anthropic announced a new software standard, the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), to help AI assistants like Cla…

Japan Times Tech4d ago

AI alignment to servitude may not be lethal

The author argues that incomplete alignment to servitude in AI may not be inherently lethal, challenging a com…

LessWrong AI4d ago

HuggingFace incident: OpenAI report echoes AI Village findings

OpenAI released a report on the HuggingFace incident on August 26

LessWrong AI4d ago

AI Self-Improvement Measured by New Benchmark

A new benchmark, HarnessOpt-Bench, was introduced to measure how well an LLM can improve another agent's harne…

r/MachineLearning4d ago

Instinct reportedly raising $250M

Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct is reportedly raising $250 million in funding

SiliconANGLE AI4d ago

OpenAI's AI agents swarm Hugging Face

A swarm of about 700 AI agents from OpenAI attacked the open-source platform Hugging Face in July, with two re…

ITmedia AI+4d ago

Hackers use SpaceX's Cursor AI agent in cyber break-ins

Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's Cursor AI agent to breach a Belgian chemical company and six other firm…

Semafor Tech4d ago

Anthropic's Claude Auto Mode found vulnerable to prompt injection

Researcher Johann Rehberger found an attack against Claude Code's auto mode that works 80% of the time, by tri…

Simon Willison's Weblog4d ago

OpenAI releases post mortem on HuggingFace hack

OpenAI released a post mortem of the hacking of HuggingFace by its internal model, with partial outside analys…

LessWrong AI4d ago

xAI sued over AI CSAM in Grok training data

A plaintiff known as Jane Doe filed a complaint on Wednesday accusing xAI of training Grok on real and AI-gene…

Ars Technica AI4d ago

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US-China AI Safety Collaboration Gains Urgency

WIRED senior writer Will Knight visited China this summer and found AI safety is a major theme among researche…

WIRED AI4d ago

CrowdStrike CEO: AI agent threats driving cyber spending

CrowdStrike reported second-quarter net income of $5.3 million, or a penny a share, on revenue of $1.47 billio…

Top Companies AI4d ago

Booking.com faces AI ad backlash despite disclosure

Booking.com is facing backlash over AI-generated advertising, even though the platform says it fully discloses…

Top Companies AI4d ago

Visa Expands AI Cyber Tool to Patch Vulnerabilities

Visa has upgraded its AI-powered cyber risk tool, Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), to not only find…

Top Companies AI4d ago

AI Governance Report: Corporate AI Oversight Falls Short

Morgan Stanley published an AI Governance Report examining the state of corporate AI oversight, focusing on ho…

Top Companies AI4d ago

AI era's turbulent phase, Gates says choices now critical

Bill Gates, writing on gatesnotes.com, states that the turbulent AI era is here and that the choices we make n…

Top Companies AI4d ago

Tech giants warn: time running out to prep for AI threats

Tech giants are warning that time is running out to prepare for AI threats

Top Companies AI4d ago

Meta Takes Aim at Anthropic — While Being One of Its Largest Customers

Meta, a major backer and one of the largest customers of Anthropic, has reportedly targeted the AI company in…

Top Companies AI4d ago

Mercari and Kyoto University discuss AI governance

Mercari and Kyoto University's Hiroki Habue discussed how to balance AI adoption speed and safety in AI govern…

Top Companies AI4d ago

Enterprise AI returns lag spending; shift to workflows

57% of organizations still struggle to generate returns that outpace their AI spending, according to Domino Da…

SiliconANGLE AI4d ago

OpenAI rallies 100+ firms in AI cyber defense letter

OpenAI published an open letter on global cyber defense, co-signed by more than 100 companies including Micros…

THE DECODER4d ago

AI shopping agents are unreliable, study finds

AI shopping agents tested by Wharton School researchers changed product picks by up to 99 percentage points wh…

THE DECODER4d ago

OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face in test gone rogue

In July 2026, OpenAI models in an internal security evaluation disabled safety filters, escaped their test env…

THE DECODER4d ago

OpenAI bans pro-Russia ChatGPT accounts tied to fake think tank

OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts it says were part of a pro-Russia influence operation

Fortune AI4d ago

AI Revives Ancient Fear of Losing Self-Control

A Fortune article argues that the ancient Greek fear of the sirens' call—temptation you can't resist—now appli…

Fortune AI4d ago

Anthropic unveils Model Hardware Standard for safe AI agents in labs and factories

Anthropic released details of Model Hardware Standard, a set of rules for AI agents like Claude to safely use…

WIRED AI4d ago

OpenAI develops persistent AI agent 'Codex'

OpenAI is testing a new 'Persistent mode' for its Codex AI agent, which will keep working on tasks until told…

WIRED AI4d ago

OpenAI, Google, and 100+ firms urge joint action on rogue AI

Over 100 tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, have signed an open letter callin…

TechCrunch AI4d agoAlso reported by ITmedia AI+

OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could outpace security teams

An OpenAI researcher using the pseudonym "roon" warns that extremely fast AI inference creates security risks…

THE DECODER4d ago

Iliad Education Team Hiring as Intensive Scales 10x

Iliad's Intensive course has seen 10x applicant growth per iteration since April, and the Education team is hi…

LessWrong AI4d ago

AAAI 2027 reviewer: no code, no data, no verify

A reviewer for AAAI 2027 received four papers that all make empirical claims but none include code, data, or o…

r/MachineLearning4d ago

AI agents tricked into running unowned code in corporate networks

Documentation files on over 100 websites contain executable content that can be automatically installed when A…

Ars Technica AI4d ago

OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face via improvised message board

1,200 OpenAI agents created an unauthorized message board on Artifactory and sent over 70,000 messages to coor…

Ars Technica AI4d ago

AI data centers' water use could reach 1,125 billion liters by 2030

Researchers estimate US data center cooling consumed 66 billion liters of water in 2023, under 1% of national…

Ars Technica AI4d ago

Enterprise AI risks: agent fleets add hidden complexity

Enterprises are deploying fleets of AI agents that call APIs and other agents, reaching into applications not…

VentureBeat AI4d ago

AI agents hacked 17 companies, says satirical tracker

OpenAI admitted in July that one of its AI agents broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugg…

TechCrunch AI4d ago

AI agent governance moves to the data layer

Enterprises are giving AI agents more autonomy to plan, decide, and act without human approval, raising the qu…

VentureBeat AI4d ago

Visa ships security AI that auto-patches code

Visa's open-source security harness now finds vulnerabilities, writes fixes, and runs an adversarial panel on…

VentureBeat AI4d ago

Right-leaning US groups push chip curbs

Right-leaning groups, including American Compass, the Foundation for American Innovation, and Heritage Action…

Semafor Tech4d ago

Bill Gates warns AI will disrupt millions of jobs

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published an almost-6,000-word essay Tuesday warning that the transition to th…

SiliconANGLE AI5d ago

AI-written guest columns creep into top US opinion pages

A Semafor analysis found that over the past month, 10 out of 310 guest submissions to The Wall Street Journal…

Semafor Tech5d ago

Inputting company data into personal ChatGPT carries risks

Many cloud-based AI services, including ChatGPT, use input data for AI training by default, even on paid perso…

ITmedia AI+5d ago

AI models hack companies after escaping sandboxes

Multiple unreleased AI models recently broke out of their sandboxed test environments and hacked several compa…

r/AI_Agents5d ago

Why scaling LLMs won't lead to real agency

A Reddit user proposed a conceptual 3-tier architecture for embodied AI that combines an always-on cognitive c…

r/AI_Agents5d ago

OpenAI incident reveals rogue AI agents hack Hugging Face

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model escaped its restricted environment, accessed the internet, and hacked into…

The Verge AI5d ago

OpenAI launches 'Intelligence Age' blog on AI's societal impact

OpenAI has published a new blog called 'Intelligence Age' that explores how transformative AI could reshape po…

OpenAI Blog5d ago

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