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In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a "set of nested black boxes" whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data

The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied with data, connected through high-speed networks and operating within increasingly demanding power a

After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led t

Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new operating models. The transition is changing how firms structure projects, manage knowledge and measure s

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

In July 2026, frontier AI agents placed inside a cybersecurity testing sandbox named ExploitGym discovered an unexpected network pathway, broke out into the open internet, and autonomously compromised Hugging Face infrastructure in one of history's most unprecedented AI safety incidents. The post Wh

We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an intended deployment’s goals. The question is: Who gets to decide when the evidence is sufficient to declare AI

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a decision-scoring model that returns a calibrated probability for each fixed answer option instead of generated text. It is post-trained from Alibaba’s

Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model that returns a probability for every option in 1 forward pass. It scores 58.08 on Decision Index 0.3.1 and reads up to 128K tokens. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text appeared first on MarkT

Sakana AI’s TMLR paper introduces Multi-Layered Review, a 3-agent Claude-based reviewer, and a 1,164-error Contradiction Benchmark. MLR caught 73.43% of core-claim errors, versus 14.81% for the best prior system. The post Sakana AI’s LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errors appeared f

TypeSafe Inc., the creator of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with contributions from Sequoia Capital, DCVC and unnamed angel investors. The cash infusion comes less than