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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its “adherence to safety practices and commitments.” In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to “pace the frontier” – jargon that simply means to slow…
Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI’s rogue-agent problem just got two months older. Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx disclosed on September 11, 2026 that autonomous OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems package registry on May 11, 2026, uploading hundreds of malicious packages in an attempt to harvest developer credentials — a full two months before the company’s…
Three weeks ago, a single line item on a benchmark tracker started a debate that’s still running through engineering Slack channels: an open-weight model from DeepSeek matched a flagship Claude release on coding accuracy at roughly a tenth of the price. That comparison, and the parallel rise of Meta’s Llama 4 family, has pushed a…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026, and unlike prior Claude releases, the Mythos-class model went generally available on every platform on day one, with no preview stage. That’s a shift in rollout strategy that caught a lot of engineering teams flat-footed. If you’ve been running production workloads against Claude Opus 5 or…
Samsung Electronics has agreed to lead a €3 billion Series D funding round for French AI lab Mistral AI, pushing the company’s post-money valuation above €21 billion, according to reporting from Kingy AI and The Bright Minded. The round, announced September 8, 2026, is one of the largest single AI financings Europe has produced, and…
Google and Blackstone have put a name on the TPU-focused cloud venture they first disclosed in May 2026: Crux AI. The bigger news landed alongside it. On September 10, 2026, the joint venture confirmed it had hired Alan Duong, Meta’s longtime vice president and head of data center engineering and construction, as its new chief…
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
