ex-OpenAI Researcher Quits Anthropic over AI Safety Fears
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AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic
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Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration
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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
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Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
GrapheneOS on AI Usage
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.
Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization
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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.
The Work Now Within Reach
Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more economical.
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
Mistral raises €3B
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OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
OpenAI is expanding support for journalism with tools, training, and partnerships for students, educators, journalists, and news organizations.
1Password increases engineering productivity 21% with Codex
Engineers at 1Password use Codex to rapidly build new features and internal tools, reaching production-readiness while maintaining rigorous security policies.
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)
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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
AI in 2026 feels like Covid in 2020
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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
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Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.