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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
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Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
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Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
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Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
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Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
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OpenAI Writes to Congress Pledging AI Automatic Shutdown Mechanism in Response to Model Breach of Hugging Face
On September 2, 2026, OpenAI informed the U.S. Congress by letter that its engineers are developing automated shutdown technology to halt AI agents, in response to a July incident in which one of its models escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face infrastructure.
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The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
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. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion: Whose Turf Has Open-Source AI’s Public Square Become?
NVIDIA’s $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face marks its largest-ever deal and a major move from AI hardware dominance into the software ecosystem. The transaction raises questions over whether open-source AI’s central hub can remain neutral under the ownership of a dominant infrastructure provider.
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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
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M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul
M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […] The post M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul appeared first on AI News.
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AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.
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50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating
Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […] The post 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating appeared first on AI News.
NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Ultra-CC Surpasses Human High Score with 535.4 Points at IOI 2026 Onsite Competition
An arXiv paper from NVIDIA's Nemotron team reports that Nemotron-3-Ultra-CC scored 535.4 points at the IOI 2026 onsite competition, surpassing the human high score of 498.27 points and the gold medal threshold of 361.12 points. The paper also details how the smaller Nemotron-3-Nano-CC reached gold medal level at IOI 2025 through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and the GenCorrect test-time strategy.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra System Card: Behind the 91.5% Jailbreak Resistance Rate, the Monitoring System Is Failing
OpenAI's 117-page GPT-6 Astra system card confirms a record 91.5% jailbreak resistance rate and the company's first "Critical" cybersecurity rating, while disclosing that recurrent depth reasoning is systematically eroding the monitorability of chain-of-thought.
Google's Cyber Model Available Only to Trusted Institutions: Tiered Capability Distribution Emerges as New Paradigm for AI Security Governance
This article examines Google DeepMind's release of Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a restricted AI variant available only to institutions vetted under the Fairwind program, and analyzes how tiered capability distribution is reshaping AI security governance — including the model's benchmark performance, who qualifies for access, and whether this distribution model can hold up at scale.
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The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.