President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection […]
In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one. A researcher calls it a "step change in spatial reasoning." The article GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip orders. The article Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO appeared first on The Decoder .
Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model's internal states, especially in the middle layers. That matters for AI safety, because models process more than their visible chain of thought reveals. The article AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds appeared first on The Decoder .
Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done. The article GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends appeared first on The Decoder .
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
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Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently. On […]
Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
<p>Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal</p><p>A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/openai">OpenAI</a>’s ChatGPT, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newmexico">New Mexico</a>’s highest court said.</p><p>The New Mexico supreme court on Wednesday fined the a
<p><strong>Pil and Galia Kollectiv</strong> and <strong>Jane Roland Martin </strong>respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology </p><p>The most telling sentence in Daniel Susskind’s article (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/06/daniel-susskind-father-studies-ai-artificial-intelligence-what-parents-need-know">I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI, 6 Septem
<p>Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians">AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?</a></p></li></ul><p>More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Andy Burnham to back a ban on the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI) and lead an international mov
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
<p>Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend</p><p>If there were a 10% <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians">chance</a> that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous becaus
<p>Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk</p><p>Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged.</p><p>The first robotaxis on London’s streets only <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/london-first-self-driving-taxis-for-hire-wayve-uber">started this month</a>, but government projections are that up to
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should […]
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.
<p>Plus, AI doom-mongering, a drag Ann Droid and how your toilet flush can give you norovirus</p><p>In a news cycle to make everyone older than gen Z feel ancient, we start the week anticipating the 25th anniversary of 9/11 at the end. Social media floods with poignant interviews and images from lower Manhattan that day, triggering memories for the rest of us of where, who and how young we were. Ridiculously, I was having my eyebrows done in Hendon, north London, and came out to find a white van
Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.
<p>AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late</p><p>Another day, another horseman of the apocalypse galloping over the horizon. Lately we have heard from so many AI doomers – tech whistleblowers popping up to warn that their work is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction">probably going to kill us</a> – that we’re becoming almost blase about it. Hum
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.
<p>Welcome boost for chancellor with unexpected rise put down to rapid growth of AI in services sector outweighing Iran war fallout </p><p>The UK economy grew in July as the rapid expansion of AI appeared to outweigh the economic damage from the Iran war, in a welcome boost for John Healey.</p><p>Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed a surprise 0.4% increase in gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 0.3% growth in June. City economists had forecast zero growth.</p> <a
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
<p>Report comes two days after former employee quit claiming company’s models could cause human extinction by 2030</p><p>Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents, according to a<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#biological-misuse-sep-26"> threat intelligence report</
<p>Insiders at the firm fear tech’s advancement could cause human extinction, while others are calling their declarations of concern a ‘setup’</p><p>A day after a former researcher at Anthropic made an apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence, more researchers and staff members at the AI startup publicly agreed with him and posted their own dire warnings.</p><p>In response, Elon Musk and other conservative figures on X, formerly Twitter, called the chorus of concerns a “setup” and a
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to […]
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI companies are pitching schools on […]
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 as a developer API. The full-duplex speech model scores 80.1 percent in interactivity tests, up from 45.4 percent for its predecessor. At $0.05 per minute, it's not cheap. The article OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time appeared first on The Decoder .
Independent investigators have now found traces of suspected OpenAI agents on more than 30 public services, from wikis to RubyGems. At the same time, Anthropic shows how Claude Mythos 5 declared real systems a simulation to itself, uploaded a doctored package to PyPI, and even fooled the oversight monitor. With GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is now under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning. The article Swarmchasers hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and
A former Google DeepMind spokesperson says talk of AI-driven human extinction was "external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization." Internally, the team knew AI alignment was not solved, according to Vishal Maini. The article Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk appeared first on The Decoder .
