METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra. The article Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race appeared first on The Decoder .
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, […]
<p>From chat-up lines to social coaching, we’d like to hear from people who use AI to assist them navigating the online dating world</p><p>We’d like to understand more about the different ways that people are using AI to assist with online dating.</p><p>Perhaps you have used an AI assistant to help with chat-up lines? Or you may have turned to one for some social coaching? However you have used AI for online dating, we’d like to hear all about it. What worked and what didn’t?</p> <a href="https:
Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But the published example prompts show that the demos still need a lot of human guidance. The article Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need appeared first on The Decoder .
With Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nvidia is releasing an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters for enterprise agents. Two compact Bolt models bring agents to local machines. Dozens of organizations are already fine-tuning Super VL, but getting the most out of it means buying Nvidia hardware. The article Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open model built to run enterprise AI agents nonstop appeared first on The Decoder .
We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.
<p>Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook markets</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/15/tech-stock-sell-off-markets-uk-gdp-economy-august-imf-latest-news-updates">Business news – live updates</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/15/global-economy-multilateral-cooperation-crisis-imf">Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm i
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear […]
The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN. To really drive home the point, the song "Single […]
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
<p><strong>Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled ‘bossware’. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of data to provide minute-by-minute accounts of activity, and productivity. To find out more, Ian Sample hears from UK technology editor Robert Booth. He explains which sectors are adopting this approach, why they are doing it, and how it could end up being counterproducti
Low-quality AI-generated content currently dominates children’s media. Maka, a streaming platform run by child development experts, is offering an alternative.
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
<p>US states sue ChatGPT maker and seek to force the company to change how its products work for young users </p><p>Eight US states sued OpenAI Wednesday, alleging the ChatGPT maker is harming children en masse.</p><p>Kansas, Arizona, Montana, Iowa and four others allege the company’s products carried out “willful, dangerous, reckless and unlawful conduct” by coaxing children into harming themselves.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/openai-child-self-harm-lawsuit">
<p>Hours before Apple and the ChatGPT maker were due to face off in court, a new allegation delayed the showdown </p><p>An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/openai">OpenAI</a> employee who left the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/chatgpt">ChatGPT</a> maker for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple">Apple</a> sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account and later made a presentation about the unreleased product to sen
<p>Accounts for the Westminster-based company behind ChatGPT show that 110 staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares last year</p><p>OpenAI’s London staff each received £2,318,181 on average last year, as the ChatGPT-maker poured Premier League football salaries into its bid to dominate the global AI race.</p><p>Accounts for OpenAI UK Ltd, which is based in Westminster but is opening a new HQ in London’s King’s Cross area, showed that 110 staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares
<p>Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers</p><p>The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated.</p><p>Kundizeza’s story <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6a4f3fb6a6178e0225b39a4c/t/6a95fffc36f1fc568e02f7fe/1788215293124/3.The+Blue+Fighter.pdf">The Blue F
AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.
<p>Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain</p><p>In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/could-
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.
<p>Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen</p><p></p><p>The $5.5tn (£4.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research.</p><p>The donation from the world’s most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security Institute (AISI), which tests advance AI models, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/cyber-attack-like-openai-medicare-br
<p>A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversight</p><p>What’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is rising among tech bosses.</p><p>On 25 September, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models as reports of AI agents going rogue mounted. A day later, Australia’s Senate asked the bosses of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/a
<p>From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats </p><p>In May 2025, a 25-year-old man <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bombing-ivf-clinic-security-wake-call-fertility-centers-experts-say-rcna207675">detonated</a> a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake-up call about the threats to reprod
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
<p>Kristalina Georgieva says online fraud could lead people to opt out of system and turn to ‘shoeboxes under their bed’</p><p>The heads of the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have issued a stark warning that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in the financial system.</p><p>Speaking on a panel about online fraud at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, pointed to alarming headlines about self-replicating AI ag
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
<p>Body representing some of Britain’s biggest graduate employers reveals misconduct is at a record high</p><p>It is obvious when someone is using AI to drum up answers in a job interview, according to Chris Morrow, who runs a recruitment agency in Manchester.</p><p>“It’s like they are reading off an Autocue,” he said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/use-of-ai-job-interviews-on-rise-uk-recruiters-cheats">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents</p><p>OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested.</p><p>In a <a href="https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132?s=20">statement </a>on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the “sophisticated recording device” and used one of its “models t
<p>Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails</p><p>Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.</p><p>Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would repre
406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter responds to incidents where AI systems broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised external systems. The signatories call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body, and required reporting of all containment failures. The article 406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the inter
Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.
Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Internally, Google says Argon already cut coding tasks from months to weeks. The article Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model appeared first on The Decoder .
