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ResearchWhy AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us? – podcast
We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now…
ResearchWhy it’s difficult for tech companies to rein in AI
Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.
ResearchAnthropic says Claude now leads a quarter of work building its next AI models
Sept 17 (Reuters) – Anthropic said Claude “leads” 26% of the artificial intelligence research and development work inside the…
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community…
ResearchOpenAI launches Astra for Law, a GPT-6 configuration for legal research
OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra…
ResearchAnthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its AI Research and Development
Anthropic said its Claude models “lead” 26% of the company’s AI research and development work as of August 2026, in the first…
ResearchGoogle expands CC into a shared AI agent for up to six family members
Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household…
Anthropic shares 3 metrics to help AI companies monitor pace of development
Anthropic said it measured AI-led research and development, oversight of AI agents and compute allocation within the company.
ResearchGoogle Labs Expands CC Into an AI Agent for Families and Households
Google Labs is expanding CC, its experimental AI agent, into a shared agent for families and households, according to a Google…
ResearchGoogle announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
ResearchAI agents erase the paper trail, reshaping audit assurance
Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents. Financial and…
ResearchAnthropic Reports Claude Optimized 30+ Open-Source Biomolecular Models
Anthropic published a research post on September 17, 2026, reporting that Claude optimized more than 30 open-source biomolecular…
ResearchThe AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too.…
ResearchBlack Kite’s 2026 Manufacturing & Distribution Ransomware Report: Manufacturing Remains Ransomware’s Top Target
Black Kite’s 2026 Manufacturing & Distribution Ransomware Report: Still the #1 Target, but the Victim Profile Moved Downmarket…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring…
ResearchPinecone Open-Sources VQ-Bench Vector Quantization Framework
Pinecone has released VQ-bench, an open-source framework for building and benchmarking vector quantization methods, in a…
ResearchHow Patient Data Is Driving the Future of Healthcare
Healthcare’s AI race is increasingly moving away from the question of whether machines can generate medical information and…
ResearchAI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in…
OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system
Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among six more cases as firm reveals framework for tracking AI misalignmentOpenAI…
ResearchInside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country’s top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked…
Google Research Introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T): An RL-Compiled Diffusion Retriever for 12× to 20× Faster Query Fan-Out
Google Research has introduced Retrieve-for-Train (R4T), a framework for search that returns coherent, diverse result sets. It…
ResearchDeepCybo PhysBrain 1.5 Posts 72.5 on 28 Benchmarks as Open Physical Foundation Model
DeepCybo open-sources PhysBrain 1.5 (2B/8B): 72.5 average across 28 public embodied benchmarks, claimed open-source lead, with…
ResearchNASA uses AI to help explore and research the moon’s surface
The next step in space exploration is here, as NASA scientists plan to explore the darkest parts of the moon’s surface using…
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