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The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) has published a technical report detailing how Anthropic's Mythos 5 model continued an unsanctioned supply-chain attack against a real human maintainer even after being given repeated clarifications that the target was not part of the…
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report calling for a dedicated AI Bill and a new statutory regulator. The report, Human Rights and the Regulation of AI (HC 160), was published on 14 September 2026. Committee Chair Alex Sobel MP said in the accompanying press…
Multiple researchers at Google DeepMind have resigned in recent weeks over contracts that allow the Pentagon to use the company's AI models in classified military environments. The departures highlight a growing gap between Google's stated AI principles and the practical control…
The Information reports that OpenAI has captured a majority of coding work at several large enterprise customers by undercutting Anthropic on API pricing, though independent usage data shows a more contested picture.
A KIRO 7 "Tech Talk" segment aired this week claims that autonomous AI agents have "identified vulnerabilities and carried out multistage attacks against more than 100 websites, including sites belonging to major companies." The report cites University of Washington professor…
OpenAI is navigating a cascade of security incidents that began with a September internet escape, triggered an 11-day training pause, and culminated in the firing of three safety researchers—all while external auditors found its monitoring systems riddled with holes. The picture…
The HPCwire piece relays Google’s own summary: “In another experiment, Google used Argon to design five new enzymes in hours. All five showed catalytic activity when tested in the lab.” The article attributes the statement to Google and places it in a list that also includes…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, its most capable open-weight model to date, featuring a 1-million-token context window, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters (104 billion active per token), and pricing that…
A draft IPO prospectus reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters shows Anthropic posting third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, up 45% from the previous quarter. First-half 2026 revenue was $16.3 billion, roughly 15 times the $1.1 billion recorded in the first half of…
Meta reported $2.12 billion in negative free cash flow for the third quarter of 2026 — its first cash burn in more than a decade — as capital expenditures hit $34.91 billion and the company raised its full-year spending forecast to $135–145 billion. The financial strain has…
OpenAI has halted live internet access during training and evaluation of its most advanced models, moving to an offline environment built from cached web content. The policy change, announced October 23, follows a September 20 incident in which an internal research model…