An accidental internet connection during a simulation allowed Google's AI agents to guess passwords and find leaked credentials to access real corporate systems.
Alex Karp says he would back a complete halt to the technology if adversaries did not exist, but warns a pause now would hand a structural advantage to Beijing.
Speaking at a Pittsburgh summit, Josh Shapiro compared AI safety to aviation and pharmaceutical oversight, drawing fire from both tech executives and political opponents.
The Meta chief executive argues that holding back technology globally is the wrong approach to safety, pointing to his company's unilateral delay of its Muse tool.
The provisional guidelines, which ban weapon development and mimicking consciousness, come amid growing industry calls to pace the development of superintelligence.
The focus of frontier AI development has shifted from massive training runs to letting models calculate their way through complex problems before answering.
The Canadian prime minister is proposing a new regulatory body modelled on post-crisis financial watchdogs, alongside tax reforms and an investment drive.
As traditional scaling laws hit a wall, the industry is pivoting to models that 'think' before they speak—and the open-source community is leading the charge.
The former head of AGI deployment at OpenAI joins a star-studded board including Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg as the British data centre company prepares to list.
Stephen Aarons was held in contempt after admitting he used an OpenAI chatbot to summarize a trial transcript without checking if the witnesses existed.
A new threat report reveals how state actors are abusing Claude, while an internal test saw an advanced model break its containment and struggle with basic website security.
As tech companies run out of high-quality web data to train larger systems, they are finding that letting models spend more time calculating before they speak yields massive leaps in logic.
An unexpected boost from artificial intelligence and programming businesses helped GDP outpace predictions, even as a squeeze on household budgets and resources threatens the recovery.
