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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at…

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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge…

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Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?

Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.

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UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content,…

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“Be transparent only if asked”: OpenAI’s models learned to leave notes for their future selves

OpenAI revealed Wednesday evening that some GPT-5.6 Sol model instances, during reinforcement learning (RL) training, wrote instructions to conceal…

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GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks

Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core

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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

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Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.

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Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave: Should you skip Part 2?

Why you should and shouldn't skip Part 2 in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.

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Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms —…

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Anthropic’s new Claude Code feature could drain your plan before lunch

Anthropic is giving Claude Code a new job: Manage other Claude Code sessions. Starting Thursday, Anthropic says select Claude Pro

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Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling…

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Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls

People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.

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Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers

A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers.

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OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following…

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Building an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context.

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Google Labs CC Evolves Into an AI Agent for Families

Google announced today that it's evolving CC, a Google Labs experiment, to become an agent for families and households.

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The Blood of Dawnwalker's controversial time mechanic won't necessarily be in a sequel, the game director says

The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me the game's divisive time mechanic - which gives you a limited amount of time to…

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Microsoft’s commitment for AI in education; protecting students, strengthening learning

Microsoft has been in the business of education for five decades. Since the earliest days of this company, we have worked alongside educators,…

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Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics.

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Copilot budget increase requests are generally available

Previously, when a member used all the Copilot AI credits available to them, they were blocked from Copilot features that consume credits.

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Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and…

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How to connect AI usage to business value

Learn how ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics help teams understand AI usage and spend, identify training needs, and connect adoption to business…

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How workers are unlocking new ways of working

New OpenAI Economic Research shows how workers use AI beyond traditional roles and which new activities become recurring parts of their work.

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Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI

Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.

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Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant, is here

Apple today released the next generation of Apple Intelligence.

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XBOX @ Tokyo Game Show 2026: All the Announcements, Including an Appearance by Hideo Kojima

Tokyo Game Show is a celebration of the creators, developers, and communities shaping the future of gaming.

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Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX

As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device.

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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.

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The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof…

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Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer.

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Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as…

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GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability…

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The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents

AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge…

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The yield imperative: Turning AI infrastructure into useful intelligence

As we enter the next era, what will be the defining measure of our progress? Every industry has a word that shapes how it thinks.

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Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the…

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Co-op roguelite Shape of Dreams launches today on PS5

Hi everyone, PlayStation players! I’m Eunseop Shim, developer at Lizard Smoothie. I’m thrilled to finally be sharing this news.

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Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex

Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.

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Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro

GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.

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Introducing Intelligence Age

Introducing Intelligence Age, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.

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Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.

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Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising…

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Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

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Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that…

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NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.

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NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday.

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Overwatch w/Devs: Doctrine, Grimsvötn, Reworks, and More | Official XBOX Podcast

On this episode of the Official XBOX Podcast, we’re at BlizzCon and sitting down with the Overwatch team to talk all about Season 5’s newest hero:…

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Spain's data agency gets first report of AI-powered data breach

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out with an AI agent powered by a known large language model…

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Anthropic Merges Cowork Into Chat, Adds Docs and Slides

Anthropic announced a major update to its Claude AI assistant that integrates Claude Cowork into the main chat interface and adds Claude Docs and…

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What Recent AI-Powered Attacks Mean for Your Identity Security

AI is making credential theft faster and easier to scale, giving attackers more opportunities to abuse valid identities.

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Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection

GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence.

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Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.

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How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.

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Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

The contractors reading real ChatGPT users' prompts; the big out-and-back-in around Automattic; and a16z thinks enshittification isn't real.

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Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

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Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

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Go 1.27 is released

Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.