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OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon -…
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
Plus, U.S. and China agree to reciprocal tariff reduction.
Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta said AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with.
Anthropic and the administration have clashed over the startup’s safety concerns and calls for greater oversight of American AI companies.
On Equity, we discussed how Meta’s AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
“AI is the devil and I its maker.”
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it’s yet another concerning example of AI…
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