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We are back with our interview series and a very special guest today! Anastasios Angelopoulos has been at the center of how the industry measures model quality in the wild.
It’s been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40.
Congrats to Harvey but we covered that already . AI News for 9/8/2026-9/9/2026.
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Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very…
Duo, Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone announced at the company’s Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, contains a number of surprises, including a critical hinge that was designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing. The new phone represents Apple’s first entry into the foldable phone genre — a category of devices that has seen significant…
Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical…
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do?
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.
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do?
Getting out of a taxi shouldn’t be a shameful experience. Yet I find myself feeling particularly embarrassed while exiting a Tesla Cybercab as it partially blocks a narrow road outside a popular Austin swimming hole.
A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build “superhuman systems” they cannot control. In a post on X announcing his departure, Jacob…
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.
Today was a tough news cycle to launch anything; we ordinarily promise to cover any new decacorn fundraises so Cognition’s $48B round and Mistral’s $24B round would normally have made it; we love imagegen so GPT Image 2.5 would have been its own headline; we covered the Dreamer story closely so their relaunch as Meta’s Muse agent should have made it; but..…
Rivian’s futuristic e-bike is delayed, and customers are not happy. Last year, Rivian’s micromobility spinoff Also unveiled a new, software-controlled electric bike called the TM-B that immediately set the e-bike world ablaze.
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date — and one that requires significantly more trust than social media ever did. On Tuesday, the company introduced Muse, its new personal AI agent that helps…
Anthropic says power users are key to its business — it’s prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they’d get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did.
Most safety alignment work treats harm as a property of a topic. A prompt is unsafe because it falls into a general category such as weapons, fraud, or self-harm, and guard models like LlamaGuard-3 encode exactly this kind of topic-level taxonomy.
A model release arrives with an irresistible claim: a 7-billion-parameter student retains 95 percent of the performance of a 70-billion-parameter teacher. This sounds like one of the best trades in computing.
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…
Benzi by Variant Technologies An AI coding agent that doesn't read — it queries . Benzi is free to use — actively in development, a work in progress.
Thanks to their ability to provide a smooth ride and quiet powertrain with ease, electric vehicles are a true shoo-in for the high-end luxury automotive segment. Rolls-Royce has the Spectre , Cadillac’s Celestiq is taking bespoke to a whole new level, and Mercedes has given the EQS the full Maybach treatment .
“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today. This is a fast-moving situation and we’re still gathering details.
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”.
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