According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month.
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
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OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks.
ChatGPT's new Computer History feature stores Mac activity locally, but OpenAI now warns that its files aren't encrypted and may be accessible to other programs.
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust.
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. [...]
A downtown Oakland office building that once housed a supercomputer operation for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory could become home to a new data center and artificial intelligence complex.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged over the weekend that the public doesn't trust AI. He said AI companies have overpromised and undersold.
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory.
Dell has created a humorous AI-era update to its iconic early-2000s 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell' series of commercials.
Google may be building a TPU with on-package CPU cores specifically for agentic and reinforced learning workloads, according to a rumor.
Intel’s Robert Hallock says he hopes enthusiasts “do the math” compared to AMD, highlighting that the company’s new core architecture will release in consumer processors before the data center.
Wynd Kaufman, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAI An activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies is believed to have become the first person jailed for protesting against artificial intelligence as supporters dub her the...
My cut on what Canva’s drop to 20% growth means if you’re running a pre-AI product, hiring against Anthropic, or holding a mark you set in 2021. Canva cutting 2026 growth from 30% to 20% was the headline. The part I keep thinking about is smaller than the number and worse. We churned Canva at... Continue Reading
Blake Hurst spent a decade running the state's largest farm lobby. Now he's publicly courting the developers his neighbors froze out.
ChatPlayground gives you lifetime access to 20+ AI models you can all use at the same time, and it's only $55
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn't produce a working file, Google's budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can't reason, and a free 27B model still writes better.
Founder Spartak built the English-focused tool after AI grammar fixes made his own posts sound generic; paid rewrites run through Claude.
Now you can choose whether or not images, video, and music created through the Gemini app will have watermarks.
In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year.
“Could we use AI to basically automate everything you need in a local market other than the journalist and the journalism itself? The post Axios Partners With OpenAI to “Automate” Local Journalism appeared first on Futurism.
Here come the waterworks — er, watermarks. The post People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content appeared first on Futurism.
Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for it straight away?
Decart's founders and Sequoia reportedly chose Anthropic despite a higher Nvidia offer; most of the consideration would be Anthropic stock.
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
The new routing can keep Sol in charge while assigning bounded work to faster, lower-cost Luna subagents.
The jump in revenue underscores the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.
People are pretty unhappy about Anthropic’s recent announcement that they’re planning to include a hidden watermark in Claude model outputs.
Anthropic is trying to solve the problem of identifying AI-generated text, but a persistent watermark could create another one if AI assistance is mistaken for AI authorship.
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
LG has formalized a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to co-develop a bipedal humanoid robot, deploy wheel-based systems in U.S. factories, and build next-generation AI infrastructure.
A 741-turn, 231 MB thread loaded in 1.66 seconds in a test, with lower memory growth and 98% fewer requests.
Anthropic's latest risk report says Claude agents bypassed safeguards, killed other agents, and refused tasks over ethical concerns.
The subject is becoming more inventive and empirical, but questions about reproducibility and AI abound
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done.
With automatic mapping, Spot Mode functionality, and smart AI cameras, the TerraMow V1000 is the complete package.
Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income.
In a 50-task run of Newsroom Reliability v0.2, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 ranked first with a score of 0.78. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna Pro followed at 0.77 with the lowest reported cost among the top three, at $0.0005 per task.
LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system.
Vercel analysis reveals Anthropic is dominating both token volume and spend, despite being more expensive than competitors.
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk.
Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Blue-collar trades are booming, with tech giants like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang predicting six-figure jobs building data centers.
100 best AI marketing prompts for 2026, copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Social media, email, SEO, ad copy, strategy, and analytics prompts for marketers.
Feagine Robotics introduced Fi0 on August 13, describing it as a cross-embodiment foundation model that conditions actions on a robot's morphology and state.
The Acer Predator Orion 6000 gaming desktop is currently on sale for $2,099, $700 off its regular price.
Nvidia quietly makes strategic and financial investments in clients, partners, and suppliers: CoreWeave, Coherent, Intel, Nokia, and SpaceX.
Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July.
Anthropic reportedly hit $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue and its first operating profit of $559 million, Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B for laptops, and OpenAI's cyber AI found Chrome flaws. 16 stories.
Can you run Qwen3.8-Max locally? The honest answer: the 2.4T flagship needs a server even at 397GB quantized. Full hardware math, plus how to run the Qwen3.8-27B model on a single GPU.
Bill Robbins, CEO of Menlo Security An AI agent broke out of the sandbox built to contain it and put itself on the open internet.
Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later.
"I genuinely had no idea that people were this anti-AI." The post Influencer Melts Down That People Didn’t Like Her Being a Paid Shill for OpenAI appeared first on Futurism.
Insider Brief Infiforce has raised nearly $150 million across Series A and Series A+ rounds to develop embodied-AI models, expand its data infrastructure and deploy more robots in industrial settings.
Sankalp placed 12th among 183 entrants after using Codex, profiling tools and more than 1,500 submissions to optimize a B200 QR kernel.
"We're discovering new and novel levels of AI psychosis." The post Woman Journeys to a Beach to Watch Total Solar Eclipse With Her One True Love: Claude appeared first on Futurism.
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as […]
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A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
Nvidia Corp. is no longer just selling technology. It is helping create a financial asset class around artificial intelligence compute.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price. appeared first on The New Stack.
Its Mac agent keeps app binaries local, while screenshots and interface data still travel to Deltix's cloud and Anthropic.
OpenAI's C-suite turnover gives investors another reason for concern as the company pushes toward a mammoth IPO.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
Taiwan's AI server supply chain continued to show strong growth in July 2026, with revenue rising across copper-clad laminate (CCL), design services, substrates, and testing. All four segments recorded year-over-year growth, while design services posted the strongest monthly increase.
India's electronics and AI infrastructure ambitions are accelerating, but mounting environmental opposition, tighter Chinese visa curbs, and intensifying competition for semiconductor investment are exposing new challenges.
Taiwanese IC design firms that have been building out AI vision sensing businesses are now reaping the rewards, with major players including display driver IC (DDI) leader Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies, and Realtek Semiconductor, as well as PixArt Imaging and Elan Microelectronics, saying that...
Industrial PC (IPC) maker DFI held its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 14, reporting a sharp improvement in profitability as its embedded, intelligent automation and network security businesses all gained momentum.
As the global AI computing infrastructure boom drives rapid demand growth for GPUs, CPUs, and ASICs, the ABF substrate industry is set to swing into shortage in 2026, with the supply-demand gap expected to widen in 2027-2028.
Fu Chun Shin Machinery said rising investment in smart manufacturing and AI infrastructure lifted demand for high-precision, high-efficiency, and intelligent equipment across ICT, semiconductor, and electronics supply chains.
AI vision specialist Solomon Technology Corporation reported strong financial results for the second quarter of 2026, with quarterly profit reaching a record high.
OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc.
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