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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted abou

MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.

OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.

Technology stocks fell lower today following a report that artificial intelligence giant OpenAI Group PBC’s annualized revenue this year is about $20 billion less than what was previously reported by the media, sending shockwaves through the industry. A report today by the Financial Times revealed t

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has been assembling a full-stack platform aimed at agentic AI. Its Forge offering is intended to give busine

Enterprise search and security company Elastic N.V. today introduced AlertZero, a team of specialized artificial intelligence agents for security operations. Built into Elastic Security, the agents take on alert triage, threat hunting and forensic analysis, and each customer decides how much of that

AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shift is pushing specialized cloud providers beyond raw GPU capacity into storage, networking and softwa

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needles

Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Similar to AI note-ta

By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.

NVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method that trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid early pivotal mistakes and recover from them, posting the best average against 13 baselines on 3 agent benchmarks. The post NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace from Architect where providers bid to serve each prompt. The buyer pays the lowest offer that meets its rules. For developers, it