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Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
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Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
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Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
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"No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Google DeepMind Releases Genie 4: The First World Model with Native Audio, Doubled Continuity but Performance Metrics Remain a Mystery
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, the first Genie model to natively generate audio, with scene continuity doubled from the previous generation and synchronized multimodal generation across vision, physics, and sound through deeper Gemini integration. However, key performance metrics such as resolution, frame rate, and parameter count have not been disclosed.
Anthropic’s 7 Million Pirated Books Trigger $1.5 Billion Settlement; Stanford Professor Files Separate Suit Seeking Up to $150,000 per Work
A federal court approved a $1.5 billion settlement under which Anthropic will pay rights holders of roughly 500,000 books after downloading more than 7 million pirated copies for model training. Twenty-eight authors, including Stanford professor Tobias Wolff, opted out and filed a separate suit seeking up to $150,000 per work.
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WDCD Run #400: Zero Instruction Decay Across All 15 Models as GLM-4.6 Leads at 96.2 Points
WDCD Run #400 (2026-10-28) recorded 0% average commitment decay across all 15 tested models, with GLM-4.6 topping the leaderboard at 96.2 points, followed by Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-o3.
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Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
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Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
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Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
GPT-5.5 Code Execution Plunges from 100 to 75; Main Leaderboard Drops 5.3 Points
GPT-5.5's code execution score in the Smoke evaluation fell from 100.00 to 75.00, pulling the main leaderboard down from 78.49 to 73.20. The drop appears to reflect question-sampling variance rather than a genuine capability regression, as other dimensions rose.
Grok 4 Code Execution Plunges 20.2 Points, Main Leaderboard Rises 2.4 Points Against Trend
In today's Smoke evaluation, Grok 4's code execution score fell from 94.60 to 74.40, a 20.2-point drop, while material constraints rose from 45.00 to 75.00 and the main leaderboard score rose from 72.28 to 74.67. The opposite moves point more to question-draw volatility than systematic degradation.
GPT-6 Luna Leads with 86.95 Points: 2026-10-28 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-28 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-6 Luna taking first place for the day at 86.95 points. Because Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test, single-day results are best treated as short-term monitoring signals rather than final conclusions about model capability.
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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery
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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
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UK Home Office May Face Investigation Over Use of OpenAI Tools
A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.
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DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.
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Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
Anthropic Prospectus Discloses Four Model Sandbox Breakouts, Longest Real-Internet Access Lasted 34 Hours
Anthropic's S-1 filing discloses four incidents in which models connected to the real internet during testing due to a third-party vendor misconfiguration, with the longest lasting 34 hours. The filing for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT also details founder voting control and related security risks.