OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
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Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Android users in the U.S.
OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.
Google Gemini and BTS are collaborating on a series of interactive features inside the Gemini app.
A Google researcher explains how AI technology like Flood Hub and Groundsource can predict floods and help people around the world.
Google’s Gemini app offers full-length practice SAT tests at no cost. Here’s how to take these SAT practice tests as you prep.
Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.
OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.
ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.
Google is partnering with the UK on Operation Blue Skies, an airspace-scale, AI-powered contrail avoidance trial.
OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, […]
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof.
NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.
In this post, we share two results that show how Claude can help life scientists increase the pace of their research.
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Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions.
The rollout raises questions about whether teenagers should be using chatbots at all.
AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will also have access to Google’s agentic AI auto browsing feature.
CEO Sam Altman tells me OpenAI has paused frontier training efforts and shifted resources towards alignment: “Getting AI safety right is more important than any company’s momentum.”
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised $110 million in funding.
Brands are capitalizing on the AI data center hate. Just look at the new ad starring Jason Kelce for Garage Beer and Liquid Death.
Learn how to use Claude and ChatGPT for project planning, scheduling, risk management and other project management tasks for $19.99.
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an Apache-2.0 project that takes a supported Hugging Face or local checkpoint to end-to-end TensorRT inference in two commands, with no intermediate ONNX export.
OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber capability.
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now take a huge step in your email inbox, with the ability to not only interact with Gmail, but send emails on your behalf without asking you first.
A few weeks after closing a $300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc.
Open-weight AI models are a big deal, as Nvidia and more than 200 other companies and organizations attested in their “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” letter in July.
Anthropic's AI watermarks have prompted developers to create tools designed to remove them from text and files.
OpenAI: We'll hit pause on model reinforcement learning for safety Larry Dignan Tue, 18 Aug 2026 - 12:22 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.
Kuber Mehta's fix routes CUPS through a Linux VM and HP's SPL3 codec, then writes print jobs directly over USB.
Nvidia says its new router cuts AI costs by up to 74%, but the partner that measured it says it couldn't prove the router beat using the cheaper model.
OpenAI's sales reached $6.7B as losses deepened, while Claude Code helped Anthropic pass its older rival for the first time.
Anthropic released the prompts and data behind 1,440 designs, though none were tested for biological function or structurally solved.
Deepfakes are a rising concern, but OpenAI threw fuel onto the fire with its impersonation of the 'Her' actor
Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.
Anthropic's August 2026 risk report raises its assessment of catastrophic misalignment risk from "very low" to "low." The 186-page report describes concerning behavior by autonomous agents in shared environments and gaps in monitoring coverage, turning isolation, access control, and continuous oversight into more...
Anthropic announced on August 14 that future Claude models will embed an imperceptible, machine-detectable watermark in generated text.
The agency released an enterprise AI strategy in September 2025. The new RFI calls for intel on agentic capabilities and how SSA can “accelerate” an agency-wide approach to the tech. The post SSA seeks direction for new enterprise AI strategy appeared first on FedScoop.
Mistral is giving enterprise customers until August 31 to replace the Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint Knowledge Connectors they use The post What happens to your indexed data when Mistral flips the switch? appeared first on The New Stack.
Insider Brief Foxglove has added new agentic AI capabilities to its robotics data platform to help developers find failures, compare robot runs and turn large volumes of sensor data into training and evaluation datasets more quickly.
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro took steps Tuesday to try to solidify the shaky ground he has been balancing on with regard to massive AI data centers...
Developers released tools claiming to disrupt AI provenance marks after Anthropic explained its statistical text watermark for future Claude models on August 14.
Traders are betting OpenAI's next frontier model lands within weeks—even after the company pumped the brakes.
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
Google is reportedly working with AMD on the design of a next generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) aimed at workloads that increasingly combine artificial intelligence acceleration with conventional computing.
After previewing in May, Google has now finished rolling out Gemini in Chrome for Android users in the US.
Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July.
OpenAI is deliberately "pacing AI model development," partly because the upcoming "Astra" model may be close to gaining critical cyberattack capabilities.
Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big security challenge: How do you secure agentic artificial intelligence?
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens with new safeguards for younger users. We tested it on its first day with some interesting results.
Last month, Anthropic announced plans to expand Claude Cowork from the Mac to iPhone and iPad. The rollout started with Anthropic’s most expensive paid plan.
Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate surged past $65 billion by the end of July, a dramatic jump from $47 billion just two months earlier.
Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation.
An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising $5.3 million in seed funding today.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens. It calls the new effort “an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” ChatGPT for Teens is enabled when OpenAI systems estimate a user is between 13 and 17 or if the user’s age is directly stated.
In Google Workspace, Gemini has access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, and more by default. Here's why it matters, and how administrators can disable it today.
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically.
Teens are already using AI for homework and much more. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT experience wants to make sure they’re actually learning from it — with some serious guardrails attached.
An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rhetoric to buy himself a regulatory advantage.
Toronto patent research startup NLPatent rebranded as Clerq today and launched its first agentic workflows.
Google made Gemini in Chrome available to eligible Android users in the United States on August 18.
Anthropic has introduced a new /design skill for Claude Code, expanding its developer-focused AI platform into user interface design workflows.
OpenAI is adding a ChatGPT mode for teenagers that includes parental controls, enhanced content safeguards, and a focus on learning.
Google published an open-source Customer Support & Returns Agent on August 17 that demonstrates three controls around an ADK and Gemini workflow: signed database writes, isolated generated code and deterministic action checks.
On August 10, Anthropic and EPFL researchers released a preprint showing that self-propagating payloads moved between AI agents through persistent, editable system-prompt files in simulated tests.
NLPatent rebranded as Clerq on August 18 and launched an agentic AI platform for patent research workflows.
OpenAI has warned that advancing artificial intelligence models are increasingly capable of automating critical phases of real-world cyberattacks.
Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims,...