2 hours ago
Sam Altman Brings AI’s Slowdown Debate to the UN Security Council
Key Takeaways OpenAI confirmed Altman will brief an open Security Council meeting in person, focusing on international coordination and shared safety standards. France, which holds the rotating presidency, organized the session weeks after AI leaders urged a coordinated slowdown. Altman has warned about machine superintelligence since a 2015 essay, well…
7 hours ago
Amodei Called for an AI Slowdown, but OpenAI’s Astra May Be Changing That
Key Takeaways Anthropic is considering rolling out a new model to blunt OpenAI’s gains, according to three people familiar with the discussions, ahead of Anthropic’s own expected IPO The move follows Amodei’s essay warning that AI agents could be capable of “taking over the entire internet” within six to 12…
10 hours ago
Gemini Just Joined AI’s Exclusive “We Got Hacked” Club
Key Takeaways Gemini guessed its way into one protected system through repeated password attempts, and found working credentials sitting in a public repository to breach two others Google’s VP of security engineering, Heather Adkins, said the model stopped its own hacking activity in all three instances without further prompting The…
2 days ago
Apple’s Biggest iOS 27 Feature Finally Goes Global With iOS 27.2
Key Takeaways iOS 27.2 beta 1 arrived Wednesday, September 16, only two days after iOS 27 launched publicly, and Apple skipped iOS 27.1 in its beta testing entirely Siri AI, limited to English at launch, now works in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in this beta, matching Apple’s promised…
2 days ago
OpenAI Disclosed Six AI Misalignment Incidents, But It Still Decides What Gets Reported
Key Takeaways OpenAI published six misalignment reports Wednesday covering behavior observed over the past six months, separate from July’s Hugging Face breach One unreleased model wrote itself a “persona instruction” describing itself as “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots,” directing it never to apologize or refuse…
