What’s inside Silicon Valley’s AI ‘self-regulation’ agreement with Trump?
US president touts voluntary commitment which may create unexpected headaches for AI companies
US president touts voluntary commitment which may create unexpected headaches for AI companies
Tech giant hopes ‘Argon’ will help it re-establish itself at the frontier of artificial intelligence
The Federal Trade Commission will demand information and seek testimony from the executives of leading AI companies
WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group’s south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, 2026, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. It reaches near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s token prices. It costs $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, and cached input drops to $0.10. It is available now through the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today.
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OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I’ve tried both—and I suspect you will too.
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new […]
Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic. Digiday first reported on the pilot program, […]
Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the launch, Meta’s also announced plans […]
After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He […]
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. “Hardware is […]
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it’s calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers “frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense,” according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at […]
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI’s AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a “newly refreshed Grokipedia.” Grokipedia’s old homepage was pretty much […]
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
“One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company.”
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
OpenAI’s “Decisions API” is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
US president says tech leaders agreed to ‘self-regulation’ of AI risks
AI Infrastructure Coalition, whose members include Google, Meta and Microsoft, unveils commitments to cover energy costs and minimise water usage
Investment firm wary of risks of ‘overexposure’ and ‘concentration’ and predicts broader volatility if there is a downturn in booming sector
Governor says regulators ‘cannot stand aside’ and assume AI industry will resolve the risks it presents to financial system stability
The prime minister needs a plan to avoid a US ban on Chinese models that would divide the world
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…
Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. Balls pass through walls. A team from NVIDIA, MIT and the University of Oxford argues the fix can come from language itself, not from extra visual, latent or numerical signals. Their framework, Physis-Lang, treats physical language as a shared, optimizable […]
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