Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the finger of blame at doomscrolling as the…
Author: Rebecca Bellan
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior |
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal |
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping…
OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them |
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May…
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails |
It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful…
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips |
In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses,…
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck |
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of…
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' |
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million…
Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model |
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens…
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine |
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content…