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Congrats to Harvey but we covered that already . AI News for 9/8/2026-9/9/2026.

An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will end up killing us all. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who said in a social media post Tuesday evening that he spent the last three years working on pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, accused the firms of failing to act responsibly.

Another swarm of AI agents in the wild, this time on a German-language forum, found by safety researchers looking for activity similar to the swarm that attacked Hugging Face. A couple of notes while reading the report at 1.

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called AlphaGenome Atlas, contains a “predictive map of every possible DNA letter…

Internal representation of world by AI A world model in artificial intelligence is a machine learning system that builds an internal representation of an environment. Often this is via understanding objects within video, which predictive LLMs cannot.

AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in OpenAI’s new Astra model that’s got AI safety…

W hen I was growing up, my dad and I often talked about a story we wanted to write together. It was called “The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland”.

In March last year, the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, published the results of an experiment . It had asked almost 300 people to have a conversation with two mystery partners, one human and one AI, and try to determine which was which.

The launch is barely 9 hours old, and with 36M views and 164K likes, already is OpenAI’s most successful launch since Sora and certainly GPT-4 or GPT-5 . You’ll recall we’ve previously observed that Anthropic tends to far outclass OpenAI in launch popularity.

Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques, and Google says it will start feeding into…

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that’s supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announcement today, the company says it’s now able to make forecasts with “unprecedented resolution” using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model.

Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, KataGo, claiming a historic human victory over AI. Shin, who holds the game's highest achievable rank of nine-dan, dealt KataGo a decisive 11.5-point defeat playing black in 221 moves in the series finale,…

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has…

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood’s biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant…

Normally we eschew AGI timeline talk on Latent Space, because it is so ill defined and unaccountable, but, well, missing it would probably be the worse sin at this point. We last checked in on OpenAI AGI timelines 9 months ago , and, right on target, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is now saying the unreleased Astra model is the “ Automated AI Research…

On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” He’s right.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and…

Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 million according to a regulatory filing.

Inherent , a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni , says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten relatively little attention.

By AI standards today is a pretty quiet Friday, so it’s time to take a step back and reflect on what is really going on. If you read our 2025 reading list , and followed our coverage of Z.ai GLM , understood the Poolside pivot , been following our AI for Science themes , and tuned in to today’s Simile pod , you not only are one of the biggest readers of…

In the Wild What people are installing, watching, and searching for now. See the full daily movement in In the Wild .

OpenAI: dissolve the structure The largest single body of evidence, so it goes first. Three safety teams gone in two years.

Hypothesized risk to human existence It has been hypothesized that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) will lead to human extinction or an irreversible global catastrophe . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One argument for the validity of this concern and the importance of this risk references how…

River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. (AMP PBC is an AI-focused investment firm founded in 2026 by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney Midha,…

More lessons about model distillation. We will cover 3 important AI papers and tech releases you need to know about using a very simple and easy to follow format.