Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash just three days after Google released Gemini 3.8 Live, undercutting its audio input pricing by more than 98% while trimming video token consumption. The move points to an intensifying price war in multimodal speech AI, with efficiency and benchmark gains backing the cost strategy.
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, calling them its most advanced real-time conversational models to date, with the Extended Thinking version taking first place on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech quality index. Yet in real-user preference rankings, the previous-generation Gemini 3.1 Flash Live still outranks the new release.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI have called for slowing frontier AI development while disclosing real cases of anomalous model behavior, even as questions about IPO timing and regulatory advantage complicate their motives. The article asks whether the push for a slowdown reflects genuine safety concerns, strategic competition, or both.
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
OpenAI has released Astra for Law, a legal-industry configuration of GPT-6 Astra built on a 230-million-URL U.S. legal search index from CourtListener, developed alongside three elite law firms. Benchmarks show 54% overall accuracy versus 38.7% with general web search — enough to assist associates, but not yet enough to replace senior legal judgment.
Google DeepMind has announced the creation of the DeepMind Institute, an interdisciplinary platform on the societal impact of AGI, led by co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist Shane Legg. The move comes as the Future of Life Institute's summer 2026 AI Safety Index gives Google DeepMind the lowest grade of the three leading AI companies.
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
