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Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‐Image‐2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex.
Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock
Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confluence.
OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
OpenAI told investors this week that it actually had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 [...]
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people.
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
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6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s, the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer.
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Western voices saying open weight models are necessary for defense and banning them will make the world less safe, occupied by AI risk moderates to different extremes.
Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase.
ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Figure 1: ThinkingBox runs an agent against isolated MCP tool sessions, then grades the terminal backend state and side effects it leaves behind.
Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime
On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities.
The United States is Militarizing and Weaponizing AI
It’s not just about the broken culture in companies like OpenAI, but the incentives and cultures of the powers behind it and the Venture Capitalist interests and incentives who have, in part, taken over key areas of tech and AI policy in much of the direction of this U.S. Government, including at the Pentagon.
AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
Unsurprisingly, today’s probability estimates of AI existential risk are no more rigorous than the ones from 2024.
Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
The true measure of AI is who it helps.
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing $581.69 billion, organizations must position their workforce to use AI to power their operations while employing it responsibly.
Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
In announcing those new apps on Reddit earlier this week, software developer Brandon Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to create "clean-room replacements" for Adobe's closed source software in Rust (with WebAssembly versions available for use in a browser).
🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questions
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google.
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights.
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do.
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Our latest paper, ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents (read it on Hugging Face, or on arXiv in the meantime), targets that gap.
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
AlphaGo won the game, ultimately triumphing 4-1 over Lee Sedol, one of the greatest professional Go players of all time. “I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine,” Lee said afterwards. “But when I saw this move, I changed my mind.
Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies.
Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
AI reshapes professional services around trust and business outcomes
Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new operating models.
The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’?
The post The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’? appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’
The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.
The eternal complement
Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas.
📈 Monday data: Damming the slop floods
There’s a flood of AI content coming down the pipeline across all forms of media.
The State of Chinese Physical AI
Dermot McGrath is an Irish entrepreneur and advisor based in Shanghai with over a decade in China.
AI for Societal Impact
Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.