Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you Business live – latest updates OpenAI is scrapping the release o
Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, according to reports, as it prepares for a pot
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received an enthusiastic and immediate response. “Yep still available!” wrote Matt Robb. C
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
White House will host lunch with tech bosses as president resists calls for regulation
Establishing attribution in research has become harder in the age of AI-assisted breakthroughs
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves fro
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.