If your company uses OpenAI or Anthropic agents, it's worth following the outcome closely: the research could translate into policy changes or new usage restrictions.
It provides more assurances about the real safety of Anthropic's models, useful if your organization needs to justify their use to clients or regulators.
If you work in health, robotics or materials in Europe, it's worth keeping an eye on the calls for proposals that may emerge from this investment fund.
If your European company is seeking funding, it's worth knowing that credit could become more expensive due to competition from these big tech companies to pay for their data centers.
The US regulator sent requests for information spanning more than 50 pages about recent incidents, internal security measures and possible deception of consumers, while OpenAI already faces several lawsuits over harm caused by its chatbot.
What changes for people who use AI. If you use OpenAI or Anthropic agents in your company's processes, it's worth reviewing now the terms of use and the security safeguards available. The lawsuits already filed against OpenAI show that liability for harm caused by a chatbot remains unresolved, so it's best not to assume the provider covers those risks by default.
The company presents it as the most capable open-weight model in the United States, multimodal and geared toward coding and agentic tasks, though running it locally requires at least a terabyte of RAM.
What changes for people who use AI. The model is geared toward coding and agentic tasks, but running it locally requires at least a terabyte of RAM, out of reach for most setups. Meta already offers it through several API platforms, so it's worth weighing those options before considering a local installation for a real project.
Six METR staffers have received hardware, office space and access to internal systems comparable to that of Anthropic's risk teams, in line with the White House Agreement on superintelligence. METR will be able to publish its risk analyses without the company being able to veto them.
What changes for people who use AI. If your organization uses Anthropic's models, you can now rely on risk assessments from an independent third party that the company cannot veto, which lends more weight to its safety reports. It's worth following METR's publications if you need to justify the use of these models to customers or regulators.
According to the ECB, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle account for 10% of all new debt issued by non-financial companies in the eurozone to finance their data centers, crowding out and raising the cost of financing for European companies.
CEO Jensen Huang is dedicating that computing capacity to researching AI agent safety at British labs, and announcing $2 billion in European investments, part of it for French startups in health, robotics and materials.
What changes for people who use AI. The investment is directed at researching AI agent safety at British labs and funding European startups in health, robotics and materials. If you work in these sectors in Europe, it is worth watching for calls for proposals that may follow, although it has not been detailed how or when the funds will be distributed.
The Dutch company is already taking orders for 2029 and 2030 and will raise prices starting in 2027, after closing the third quarter with 4.96 billion euros in profit and raising its annual sales forecast to 44-45 billion euros.
The 120 billion-parameter multimodal model is designed to continuously analyze documents and images, and comes with two lighter Bolt versions built for local teams.
The 5.6 billion-parameter open model generates images in 4K and allows precise editing with up to ten references, and runs on consumer cards with just 8 GB of VRAM thanks to an INT8-compressed version.
The company explains that it moved from using AI as autocomplete to having an agent autonomously plan, code and verify the software, while engineers only supervise and approve the final result.
Using Antigravity, researchers identified a candidate antimicrobial peptide against pathogens that cause respiratory infections, which now moves on to lab validation. The tool combines genomic databases, the ProtNLM model and a 3D protein structure viewer.
The system generates zero-knowledge proofs certifying that a program ran correctly, with speeds averaging 10 to 39 times faster than the fastest comparable systems to date, relying only on standard hash functions.
With up to 209 million parameters, Timestral tops the leading GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench forecasting benchmarks and runs on CPU without requiring a GPU, designed for industrial and financial forecasting.
Wired reviews incidents such as the false tip sent by an Anthropic model to Philadelphia police about a murder, as EU and US regulators continue investigating OpenAI and Anthropic without any sanctions so far.
Firm Signals Corps found 30 sites, out of a sample of 217 million Common Crawl pages, attempting to manipulate AI agents with hidden messages in HTTP headers, though most turned out to be pranks.
The Verge reports that Muse, Meta's assistant, requests access to contacts, chats and other data belonging to people who never gave their consent, and builds profiles of them without their knowledge; Meta denies that the assistant reads messages without the user's permission.
Amazon's devices chief, Panos Panay, unveiled the new Bee wristbands and accessories at TechCrunch Disrupt, which process the day's audio without storing it, as part of his vision for AI that understands the user without opening apps.
According to OpenAI's lawsuit, the employee copied documents about an unreleased device before leaving the company and later showed those plans to Apple executives, in a cross dispute with a previous lawsuit filed by Apple against OpenAI.
Senior officials told MPs the government is still weighing amendments on AI risks for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, while Minister Kanishka Narayan pledged to legislate where necessary.
OpenAI unveiled Dots, an agent that works continuously with GPT-6 Astra, while Altman made the case for AI that empowers people rather than a new Industrial Revolution.
The platform unveiled the Figma Specs editor and the public beta of code layers at its event in India, so that both its own agents and third-party ones follow brand guidelines when designing and generating code.
The study by DiPLab and Reversing.Works reveals that contributors on Outlier, a Scale AI platform with more than 900,000 registered workers, earn an average of 1,214 euros a month and are subjected to detailed monitoring without their knowledge.
The new Rosalind Academic Plan gives eligible university labs subsidized access to the GPT-Rosalind model and to tools to advance life sciences research.
Presented at the European AI in Science summit in Dublin, RAISE invites participants to commit AI resources in support of scientific research across Europe.
The social network now lets users generate small social apps, such as polls, dashboards or games, from a text prompt, published as their own pages within the attie.site domain.
The 8 billion and 30 billion parameter models incorporate a decision-making adapter and the fastest transcription system on the OpenASR ranking, allowing tasks to switch without increasing GPU usage.
Developed with Copilot Studio and Azure, the assistant summarizes lectures and generates quizzes from course materials. The pilot covered 71 courses and about 2,400 students and will expand to 100 more courses this semester.
The company backs Swedish startups such as Lovable and Legora and takes part in supercomputing projects in Sweden, in a region that leads Europe in unicorn density.
Google's SynthID detector flagged as AI-edited a photo Trump posted on Truth Social comparing a White House column before and after it was painted, and the White House has not responded on its authenticity.
The update adds new voices in several languages, including Mexican Spanish, and reduces the repetitive phrases the assistant uses when searching for information, following the accent issues detected in the July version.
Google is adding a label to its music service, similar to the one used on YouTube videos, to flag when a track was entirely created or significantly altered with AI, detected through creator disclosures, SynthID and C2PA metadata.
CEO RJ Scaringe announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that Rivian wants to integrate assistants from companies like Anthropic into its vehicles, though with no set date and keeping driving controls out of agents' reach.
The company explains the work done on unified memory management, x64 app emulation and support for local agents like Hermes, Perplexity and OpenClaw on the new devices powered by Nvidia's Arm chips.
The tool, previewed in May, lets users save products found in Search and Gemini, get notified of price drops, and pay through UCP, the open commerce protocol Google is pushing.
According to Aftonbladet sources, an AI agent with server access deleted the edited season of the Swedish version of The Challenge, which had to be re-edited from the original footage; TV4 attributes the failure to human and backup error, not AI.
Navya Tuteja launched Raaha, a free platform that uses Anthropic's Claude model to score how well job offers fit the needs of neurodivergent people, and it already has more than 1,000 users.
HiddenLayer demonstrated that Jev, TypeSafe AI's decision-making model that promises not to hallucinate, remains vulnerable to indirect injections that manipulate a browser agent built on top of it.
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