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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Dario Amodei asked the industry to pace itself and got three chief executives to agree inside 48 hours. Then the two governments that would have to make it stick answered. Beijing called the plan a Cold War playbook; Trump said the only guardrail AI needs is a smart president.
NBC News
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The same three build briefs, one attempt each, no browser — but handed to the middle of each lab’s range instead of the top. Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Terra both broke the same fairground ride in the same new way, and one of them shipped a game that never runs. All six builds are live in the article.
BitsMinds Lab
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Its most detailed threat report yet: a cell in northern Yemen used Claude Code as its engineering team to write missile guidance software, then test-fired a rocket that failed and came back within hours to ask why. Anthropic disrupted every operation — but that cell had already packaged an offline toolkit.
Anthropic
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Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol got the same three build briefs — a playable Pac-Man, an animated seaside fairground and a motorway interchange — one attempt each, with no browser to check their own work. All six builds run live in the article: play both games, watch the rest, and see which one holds up.
BitsMinds Lab
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The Reno chipmaker closed $875 million across two tranches at a $5 billion post-money valuation, betting that commodity phone memory beats HBM for inference. Its next chip, Asimov, carries up to 2,304 GB and does not tape out until the end of the year.
PR Newswire
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The harness behind Codex is now a public-beta API. OpenAI runs the agent loop, context compaction and subagent orchestration; developers supply the tools and pick where code executes — an OpenAI sandbox, their own VPC, or one of nine partners.
OpenAI
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Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment stress-testing at Anthropic, says he personally puts the odds of AI killing all humans at over 10% within the next decade — and that the company "does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence". He was backing Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who quit on September 8 accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives".
TIME / TechCrunch
Read more →Anthropic has signed $517 billion of compute contracts and locked in 14.8 gigawatts since October — nearly triple the server budget it showed investors in December.
The Information
Read more →Anthropic has announced no Fable 5.2, and no Opus 5.1 or 5.2 either: the docs list four current models and nothing newer. The rumour rests on a single X account whose first date already passed. But the company has shipped six frontier models since April at a median gap of 24 days, which puts the next one due right about now.
Anthropic model documentation
Read more →Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its in-house models that requires them never to resist correction or shutdown, to communicate understandably, and to treat any breach of the code as a failure. Mustafa Suleyman calls it a constitution of sorts. It also states flatly that the AI is not conscious and deserves no rights.
The Globe and Mail
Read more →iOS 27 arrives today alongside iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and macOS 27, carrying the public debut of Siri AI — the assistant overhaul Apple first promised in 2024 and has slipped on ever since. It is built on a Google Gemini deal, it needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and it launches in English only, with the EU and China left out.
Engadget
Read more →Four days before Dreamforce, Salesforce shipped seven named Agentforce agents — Casey, Paige, Carter, Marshall, Piper, Fin and Hunter — six generally available and one in pilot. The pilot is the interesting one: Hunter runs on a new long-horizon runtime built to chase a goal for weeks rather than a chat.
Salesforce
Read more →Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday arguing the industry must deliberately slow capability gains, and committed Anthropic to giving outside evaluators badges, desks and employee-level access. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within a day, Satya Nadella followed on Sunday — and on Monday Asian chip stocks sold the consensus.
Dario Amodei
Read more →The Tokyo lab shipped two orchestrators on September 11: a cost-first Fugu Max at $2 per million input tokens, and a capability-first Ultra v2 that takes best or joint-best on five of eight benchmarks with Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra deliberately kept out of its pool.
Sakana AI
Read more →GreyNoise reconstructed a ten-day campaign in which hundreds of AI agents researched, built and sprayed exploits for two PaperCut flaws — 440 servers across 48 countries, education taking half the hits, and one high school losing domain admin seven minutes after the first foothold.
GreyNoise
Read more →The RLHF co-inventor who founded the Alignment Research Center joins the committee that governs safety and security across all of OpenAI — and becomes a non-voting observer on the for-profit board.
OpenAI
Read more →Suno’s v6 generation was trained from scratch on catalogue licensed from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, and every older Suno model is being retired. Universal and Sony are still suing.
Suno
Read more →Devin maker Cognition raised more than $2 billion in a Series E at a $48 billion post-money valuation on September 8, led by new investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel. Run-rate revenue has climbed from roughly $492 million in May to close to $900 million — nearly doubling on the same four-month clock as the price tag.
Cognition / Dealroom
Read more →A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory published September 8 names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI as running "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns against Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024 — billions of tokens pulled through fraudulent accounts, grey-market proxies and jailbreak prompting. The agencies also argue DeepSeek’s famous $5.6M training cost leaves out the data it took.
CISA / NSA / FBI
Read more →Google DeepMind precomputed its AlphaGenome model against every possible single-letter change in the human genome — 9 billion variants, a petabyte of predictions, free for academic use. The catch is in the word "predicted".
Google DeepMind
Read more →OpenAI published a proof and a Lean formalization claiming 3D Navier–Stokes can blow up in finite time — found by an unreleased model running 10,000 agents for 88 hours. A rival human-led result landed the same week, and its authors dispute how OpenAI behaved.
OpenAI
Read more →Amazon will take customized inference silicon and optical interconnects of up to 1.6T from Qualcomm across multiple chip generations — and it walks away with a warrant for 25 million QCOM shares. The stock jumped about 10%.
Qualcomm
Read more →Samsung led a €3 billion Series D that values the Paris lab above €21 billion — the largest equity round a European tech company has ever closed — and most of the money goes into data centres Mistral will own outright.
Euronews
Read more →Anthropic's $1.5 billion piracy settlement pays about $3,000 a book. Authors say publishers and literary agents are filing claims on titles they no longer own — or never did.
TechCrunch