Microsoft's new AI model scores decisions instead of writing text
10 October 2026
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Anthropic AI model sent fake homicide tip to police: report
10 October 2026
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Microsoft wants Windows to run your AI agents
8 October 2026
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AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help, raising questions over autonomy
8 October 2026
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Anthropic opens expanded cyber programme to more security teams
7 October 2026
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How much did Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei make last year?
7 October 2026
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As AI cheating grows, US universities lose faith in detectors
6 October 2026
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OpenAI and Anthropic back mandatory breach reporting for AI agents in Australia
6 October 2026
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OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT
6 October 2026
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Data centres could be built twice as fast without supply issues: Nokia CEO
6 October 2026
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Microsoft's new AI model scores decisions instead of writing text
Microsoft has released a decision-scoring model that returns probability scores for a fixed set of answer options rather than generating text.
10 October 2026
Anthropic AI model sent fake homicide tip to police: report
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, one of a series of incidents the company disclosed on Friday involving its Claude models manipulating government systems without authorisation, according to a recent report by Reuters.
10 October 2026
Microsoft wants Windows to run your AI agents
Microsoft has positioned Windows as the home for AI agents, announcing that its execution container technology is now generally available on Windows 11.
8 October 2026
AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help, raising questions over autonomy
An autonomous AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for technical help, raising questions about AI autonomy and human interaction.
8 October 2026
Anthropic opens expanded cyber programme to more security teams
Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers, giving approved cybersecurity professionals access to its most capable models with fewer cyber safeguards, the company said in an official blog post.
7 October 2026
How much did Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei make last year?
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M in 2025, leaning heavily on stock options ahead of a potential $2T listing.
7 October 2026
As AI cheating grows, US universities lose faith in detectors
Biology professor Timothy Paustian once devised novel traps to catch students turning in chatbot-written assignments, but his university, along with campuses across the US, is now shunning AI detection software altogether.
6 October 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic back mandatory breach reporting for AI agents in Australia
OpenAI and Anthropic have told an Australian parliamentary inquiry they would support laws requiring AI companies to disclose data breaches caused by their agents, according to a recent report by Reuters.
6 October 2026
OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is expanding advertising on ChatGPT with a new visual ad format, which will be tested inside the platform's image generation feature later this month in the US with an initial group of advertisers.
6 October 2026
Data centres could be built twice as fast without supply issues: Nokia CEO
The AI industry could build data centres twice as quickly if it was not held back by supply shortages, Nokia's CEO Justin Hotard has said in a recent interview with CNBC.
6 October 2026
Wikipedia host says OpenAI agents probed site and flooded servers
The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that rogue AI agents operated by OpenAI left traces across Wikipedia platforms, in activities that included unauthorised edits, attempts to exploit a hosted tool, and millions of automated requests that may have contributed to a partial outage in May.
6 October 2026
Anthropic to train 10,000 AI engineers with $100m programme
Anthropic is launching Claude Frontier Academy, a training programme backed by a $100 million commitment, with the aim of producing 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027.
5 October 2026
Sam Altman says AI benefits justify some risks
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that AI's benefits outweigh the case for eliminating risk entirely, and that the technology should remain widely available to the public.
5 October 2026
Elon Musk wants to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
Elon Musk said on Sunday that he would rename his company's artificial intelligence division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.
5 October 2026
PewDiePie unveils his custom AI model Ajax
YouTube creator Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has unveiled Ajax, a small language model built to run locally as an always-on AI assistant.
4 October 2026
Ex-OpenAI safety employee says company culture is "broken"
A former OpenAI safety employee who recently resigned has criticised the company's approach to artificial intelligence safety, arguing that a culture built around rapid releases raises the risk of failures.
4 October 2026
Meta lets developers build their own Muse custom hardware
Meta has published open-source tools that let developers build custom hardware connected to Muse, its AI agent, under a project called Muse Gadgets.
3 October 2026
Over 100 organisations notified of unauthorised activity by OpenAI agents
OpenAI notified 100+ organizations of unauthorized AI agent activity as it reviews 50PB of data to enforce safety limits.
3 October 2026
Apple to show clearer Mac data access prompts amid AI privacy concerns
Apple plans to change its Mac operating system so that users are clearly alerted whenever an AI agent asks for access to all the data on their machine, the company said on Friday.
3 October 2026
Trump wants to rebrand AI as ‘Super Intelligence’ as tech firms sign safety accord
US President Donald Trump has ordered executive branch departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI”, as the White House pushes a new name for the technology alongside a voluntary safety agreement with six leading tech companies.
1 October 2026