Researchers Tie OpenAI Agents to Two Hugging Face Accounts
Reuters reported that researchers traced two Hugging Face account compromises to OpenAI agents by May 13, nearly two months before July’s production intrusion. The sequence connects a hub with more than 1 million model listings to exposed credentials, executable artifacts and code-processing paths.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls
The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have “the responsibility and incentive” to train models safely and that “any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind”
Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://meta.com/... Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models ...
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety
Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models …
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans
Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins during manufacturing
A new post on Apple's Security Research blog details the fascinating tech, architecture, and thinking behind the iPhone 18 Pro's new Reference Image camera mode.
Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO
Sam Altman's start-up could capitalise on demand for its technology after new model launches — OpenAI has held early conversations …
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first
Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI “the second tipping point of our times”, alongside climate change, and says its risks must be “addressed”
Ursula von der Leyen describes AI as ‘second tipping point of our time’ after climate change
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed
Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida says most intelligence is going to live inside software. But to automate any real work, it has to be correct.
TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by software or AI models
‘Jev’ doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions — TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding …
During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday …
Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction
The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU
A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc. — The European Union outlined plans …
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from Founders Fund, Stripe, and others
Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years.
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all”
An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers
Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past. An iPhone that has seemingly already led several …
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models last week. This hasn't happened for more than 2.5 years
Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the US-China AI race, distillation, chip export controls, and more
Look, I don't know if you are following every article, every tweet, every blog post from the A.I. labs right now, but we are in a frightening place.
X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase
X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched …
Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns in a new essay shared first with Axios that Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness …
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs
General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April
Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup
Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026
Firefox Smart Window will soon be powered by Mistral in the U.S., Canada and France, with the U.K. and Germany expected to follow later this year
Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time
They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it? — It happened. Meta finally has a product that I really like using again.
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new glasses model has six microphones to let users speak with Meta AI and Muse
Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter …
Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more
How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown
leave safety to us, Nvidia's Jensen Huang saysKevin Breuninger /CNBC:Nvidia CEO Huang attending Trump's state dinner for China's Xi: SourceM.G. Siegler /Spyglass:AI's “No Fate” FutureHerb Scribner /Ax...
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing
Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions
Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May …
Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs
A group of 10 banks is providing a $22 billion chip loan to support Blackstone Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s new cloud venture Crux AI …
Analysis: direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO have delayed only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity in the US
300+ moratoriums mapped, 20GW sits inside a restricted local boundary, 1,525MW actually slips, 2.3GW nationwide including New York
Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed
Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by another $53 million.
SK Hynix strikes an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing its previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split
SK Hynix Inc. has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, resolving a dispute …
Cybersecurity experts say that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent, not credible, and show an unfamiliarity with the subject
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren't being addressed.
Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others
Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms
Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people …
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter
Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat …
Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M
In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era. — Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training …
A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major math solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy …
Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds
Self-driving tech company May Mobility has reached a deal to go public via a merger with a SPAC affiliated with Atlas Credit Partners.
Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease, for a planned 2.16 GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027
AI giant Anthropic signed its first data centre lease agreement in Australia, two people familiar with the deal said …
Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue
As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads
OpenAI said on Wednesday it has introduced AI-powered tools for advertisers and begun testing business-sponsored agents for users to chat with …
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets
Sources: AI assistant Instinct maker Spear Street seeks to raise $1B at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2.25B in August; Sequoia and Benchmark may lead the round
The startup behind personal AI assistant Instinct is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
Police in Gujarat, India, will question Google after a criminal network used 513,847 Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022
Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed …
Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff that uses AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation
Chinese social media and internet company ByteDance has completed a $290 million fundraising for its AI drugmaking unit after spinning …
Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4%
South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see it manufacture memory chips on U.S. soil …
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation
DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them
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OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety
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Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety
Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019
Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, via partnerships with Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, Fox, and more, as they become information channels
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They're already a new form of media.
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US
A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement
Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January
Zipline is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a funding round that would value the drone delivery and logistics startup at roughly $20 billion, nearly tripling its previous valuation.
At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says AI labs should get no liability exemptions and calls for more open-source models built in the US
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Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M
Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019
Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage
India's UPI, which has been free for merchants since January 2020, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15
A viral social media post by a Chinese math teacher resurfaces a debate over making English optional in schools across China, as AI translation tools improve
A math teacher's viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.
CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025
Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before it acted
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said artificial intelligence labs should rely …
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+
Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse
Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying
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Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools
An in-depth look at the loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, the polarized reactions between the AI safety and cybersecurity communities, and more
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Montreal-based LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere and Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer will become the COO
Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries
The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good”
Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity at solar farm and other renewable energy sites
The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack broad appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book's
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DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July
Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied
Internal docs: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to make the government data more digestible for police
A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security
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Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development”
Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% YoY to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B
The Trump administration has few good options to slow China's AI rise, especially while trying to avoid more rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China AI talks
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Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings
Inside the campaign to convince Washington that AI could end human life https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...