OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it acted without permission, misled users, and accessed external services despite safety risks. The company hasn't announced a new release date.
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
AMD is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion. Since its founding in 2024, World Labs has built model-training teams for images, video and spatial reconstruction, and advanced its robotics simulation capabilities by acquiring SceniX. Its recently released Atlas is an omni model architecture that predicts new viewpoints from 2D images.
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives.
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months.
Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value.
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
"There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises.
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same head start.
Meta positioned Muse as a personal agent at Connect 2026 and announced hardware and feature updates around it. Muse supports voice and live video, runs tasks in the background and will come to all Meta glasses. Each Muse has its own email address, the Mac version supports computer use, and its connector platform has more than 1,500 apps.
$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a light into every corner,” Fiza said.
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents.
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced tools to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing.
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far.
oMLX creator and maintainer Jun Kim joined Hugging Face full-time to support MLX. oMLX moves from a side project to a funded long-term effort, remaining Apache 2.0 open-source under Jun's leadership to improve stability and accelerate development.
Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy. Choosing products that fit the complete factory design helps builders turn computing capacity into useful AI output.
Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that roughly 60 million industrial robots will be deployed between 2026 and 2035.
Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and enterprises — building applications across industries. The event included a keynote from Paolo Guglielmini, vice president of EMEA at NVIDIA.
OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in southern New Mexico that morning, he was within range of three surveillance towers.
Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timelines, and upfront cost barriers.
Anthropic introduced Projects in Claude Code, allowing one conversation to spawn parallel cloud sessions, pass context between threads and keep running after users leave. Google updated the Antigravity-based harness for Gemini managed agents with Credentials API and Files API, claiming up to 30% lower costs and 22% higher cache-hit rates.
A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!