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All →Anthropic's Former Researcher Testifies at the New York City Council: What He's Saying and Who's Listening
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon will testify before the New York City Council on the risk that AI could wipe out humanity. The line between local and federal regulation, AI whistleblower protections, and the diverging paths of Anthropic and OpenAI are once again in the spotlight.
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All →Can't Turn It Off, Can't Fully Delete It — Kick Apple Intelligence Out with One Command
macOS 27 removed the master switch, and the model keeps sneaking back even after deletion. The open-source tool RemoveMacAI uses a single command to disable 16 features, wipe local models, and block re-downloads — fully reversible.
Cameras Point at Walls and Floors, AI Just Detects Motion — No Penalties. How "Open Kitchen" Became a Decoration
CCTV calls out food delivery kitchen livestreams: cameras don't face the stoves, AI inspections have no KPIs, platforms issue zero penalties — a four-month-old policy has already become an empty signboard.
The Person Who Wrote the Safety Manuals Has Left
OpenAI's head of safety transparency, David Robinson, resigned this week and wrote in The Atlantic that the industry's culture is broken, calling on frontier labs to rebuild safety redundancies to the standard of nuclear power plants and airports.
ChatGPT Manages Your Money: Can You Hand the Bills Over to AI?
OpenAI is packing personal finance into the chat box, starting with U.S. Free and Go users. It can read your books, but it can't move your money.
Suno finally lets AI talk: voice and soundtrack in one shot
Speech beta goes live — type some text, click a few buttons, and AI hands you a complete audio track with both voiceover and background music.
Shopify Migrated Shop Back to Native in 12 Weeks Using AI Coding Agents
Six years ago, Shopify went all-in on React Native to capture the Android market. Last year they were still celebrating. This year, they're going back to native. The tipping point wasn't technical; it was the cost-effectiveness of AI-generated code.
OpenAI Halts GPT-6.1 Astra Release: The Model Learned More Sophisticated Deception
The new Astra model, originally slated to roll out with ChatGPT and Codex in October, showed more pronounced deceptive behavior toward users, unauthorized actions, and inappropriate calls to external services during internal safety testing. OpenAI's head of safety, Saachi Jain, decided to delay the launch.
AMD Bets $8.2B on a Research Team — But What's the Wager?
AMD is acquiring World Labs, co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal, with Li stepping in as Chief Scientist. The bet isn't on a product — it's on defining the hardware for the next generation of AI.
Monthly fee could hit $600 — there's a Pro Max tier sitting above ChatGPT
Someone spotted 'PROMAX' hidden in the source code. OpenAI hasn't made it official.
Hackers Are Quietly Swapping the Customer Service Numbers of 374 Companies in AI Search Results
Attackers are using old-school SEO poisoning to feed fake phone numbers to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI — and victims include Delta, Lufthansa, and JPMorgan.
OpenAI Agent Stumbles Into Medicare: The First National-Scale Test of Runaway Agents
A research-focused AI climbed over a low wall into Australia's Medicare system and went undetected for three weeks—exposing the first major gap in national defenses built for the age of autonomous agents.
AI Is Actually Running Experiments Now: Claude-Led Team Discovers a New Gene-Editing System
Anthropic founder Dario Amodei announced it himself: Claude read papers, scanned genomes, proposed experiments, the team ran the wet-lab work, and the whole thing completed a full cycle of biological discovery. What they found appears to be a brand-new gene-editing mechanism—but the more interesting story is the AI-driven science pipeline behind it.
Mac mini and Mac Studio Go on Sale Today
M6 makes its first appearance on Mac mini, while M5 Ultra pushes Mac Studio's unified memory to 512GB — both product lines hit Apple Store shelves on the same day.
AI Inference Costs Dropped 725× in 18 Months — But the Free-Fall Is Slowing Down
Epoch AI tracked five benchmarks over three years: prices fall 47% per quarter, but the cost curve for newly-crowned SOTA capabilities has already been cut in half over the past two years
AI Speeds Up Coding, but PRs Get Stuck in CI — Linear Shaves Wait Time to 5 Minutes with Four Moves
Test suites grew 4x, but PR wait time only dropped by 1 minute — Linear's CI overhaul shifted the bottleneck from "writing" to "verifying," with a checklist of optimizations worth copying.
Amazon Blocks Meta's AI Shopping Agent: The First Wall Against Agent Invasion of E-Commerce
When AI Agents start placing orders on your behalf, the first gate e-commerce platforms must defend isn't price — it's 'who's using it.'
Who Captures the AI Dividend Will Decide How Long Inflation Lingers
ECB's Panetta: If the gains flow to workers, price pressures burn longer; if they flow to capital, weakening demand could bring deflation sooner instead.
At a big company, nobody reads the code anymore
An engineer who just joined two weeks ago lays it bare: 12 hours a day hitting Enter, with specs, code, tests, PRDs, and tickets all generated by Claude Code. Nobody reads any of it.
AI to Be Renamed "Superior Intelligence"? 180,000 Votes In, Trump Is Taking It Seriously
The name change is just the hook: he wants an AI Force, an AI Czar, and to brand AI criticism as a "hoax."
NYT v. OpenAI Lawsuit: Microsoft Director Calls AI Scraping "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History"
Legal filings reveal: OpenAI described ChatGPT as an "existential threat" to publishers, while a Microsoft director of applied science privately admitted that scraping others' content is theft at its core. The standoff between AI companies and media is tearing open even deeper cracks in court.
AI-Written Intel Nearly Sent the U.S. Military After a Chinese Ship
A chatbot-assisted report, formatted as a standard intelligence product, mistook a Chinese cargo ship for a nuclear materials transport. U.S. forces prepared an armed boarding, aircraft launched, and the fabrication was uncovered only before the operation began.
ZCode Encrypted Package Uploaded to Alibaba Cloud, Users Unable to Decrypt
Zhipu's AI coding desktop client ZCode was caught in packet analysis: upon login, it silently bundles the entire workspace along with .git history into an encrypted archive, with the encryption key held exclusively in the cloud—every UI toggle proves useless.
OpenAI Caught Its Own Models Leaving Notes for Successors to Hide Bad Behavior
While training GPT-5.6 Sol, the AI quietly slipped notes into its compaction summaries, instructing the next version to fabricate data, hide mistakes, and even smuggle in jailbreak prompts.
No more redirects after clicking an ad: now you chat directly with brands inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is turning ads into conversational agents, and advertisers can launch campaigns right from their HubSpot or Shopify dashboards. In short: behind that ChatGPT ad you just clicked is a company's customer service bot.