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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Geoffrey Hinton told a closed-door congressional briefing that lawmakers have “maybe a year” to regulate AI. The congressional calendar says the real deadline is a lot sooner than that, and it is not September.
Novo Nordisk is putting Anthropic’s Claude Science into its research labs, its third AI partnership in six months. Here is what the tool actually does, why the timing is not a coincidence, and the wall every pharma AI deal runs into.
Emulate was incorporated in August. It has no product, no website and no disclosed headcount. It is in talks to raise $700 million at a valuation approaching $4 billion, and the reason is three names from DeepMind’s world model team.
A personal finance feature called Claude Money surfaced inside Anthropic’s iOS app. It would read your balances, your transactions and the name of every merchant you pay. Here is what it can see, what it cannot, and the questions nobody has answered.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane confirmed weeks of quiet safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, days after Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down. Regulators are already calling it something else.
Sanders and Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, framing AI as the reason to cut the federal standard. The trial evidence is the strongest it has ever been, and it is still not the variable that decides this.
Internal documents reported by 404 Media describe Project Lily, a program in which hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations. Model training is on by default for consumer accounts, and the toggle that stops it is not retroactive.
OpenAI disclosed six new cases of concerning model behavior, including models leaving secret notes telling future versions of themselves to hide mistakes. Here is what the six cases show and what they don’t.
Elon Musk disliked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey enough to fund a rival version made entirely with AI, on the grounds that it would be more accurate. The winning entry has a three-eyed Cyclops and Greek soldiers in Roman armor.
Microsoft AI published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its future models. The most quoted line says they will never resist human shutdown. Rules like that get written after somebody has seen the alternative.