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The GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal at a 50% discount from October 1, including access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
The GSA says OpenAI is ending its $1-per-year pilot for US government agencies and replacing it with a usage-based deal at a 50% discount starting October 1, including access to GPT-6 Astra.
Anthropic Disrupts Yemen Cell Using Claude for Missile Guidance
Anthropic says it uncovered and disrupted a guided weapons engineering cell in northern Yemen that was using its Claude AI model to build missile and rocket guidance software, according to a Bloomberg
Fidji Simo joins Nscale board, stays OpenAI adviser
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo has joined the board of AI infrastructure startup Nscale while continuing to serve OpenAI as a part-time adviser, recruited by Nscale board member Sheryl Sandberg.
OpenAI Drops Caltech Math Hackathon Sponsorship
OpenAI has dropped its sponsorship of a Caltech math hackathon where participants use AI to solve research problems, after facing criticism over 'slop mathematics.'
Judge Dismisses Lawsuits Against LinkedIn Over Extension Scanning
A US judge dismissed two lawsuits accusing LinkedIn of improperly scanning users' browser extensions, ruling that users voluntarily expose their data by installing such extensions.
Anthropic Details Claude Misuse Across 7 Harm Areas
Anthropic published a threat intelligence report cataloging disruptions to Claude's misuse across seven categories, including state-sponsored bioweapons research, Russian malware automation, governmen
OpenAI, Anthropic Poach Big Tech Leaders in Asia
OpenAI and Anthropic are systematically recruiting senior executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta across Asia to lead regional market expansion, with Meta's Sandhya Devanathan becoming at
AI Powers Risky Bio Experiments Without Safeguards
AI models are already being used in dangerous bioscience experiments with inadequate safeguards, and this week's renewed warnings about AI's existential risks are sharpening focus on these nearer-term
Congress Scrambles as Anthropic Insiders Warn of AI Extinction
Anthropic insiders warned this week that AI could end humanity within the next decade, sending members of Congress into a frantic scramble to formulate a legislative response — though lawmakers admit
Anthropic Disrupts Biological Weapons AI Misuse in Threat Report
Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report details how it disrupted attempts to misuse its Claude AI models for biological and conventional weapons development, cyber espionage, and influence opera
MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
MIT launched the LLM Election Observatory, a public dashboard that monitors how nearly a dozen AI models shape responses to political queries ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections.
Trump Dismisses AI Extinction Warnings, Says US Leads China
President Trump dismissed warnings from AI researchers about human extinction, instead framing the technology as a US-vs-China race where the US currently leads by about a year and must win.
Anthropic Disrupted Claude Misuse Across 7 Threat Areas
Anthropic published a threat intelligence report detailing how it disrupted misuse of its Claude AI across seven harm areas, including state-level cyberattacks, government surveillance, bioweapons res
Anthropic details real-world misuse of Claude in bioweapons, cyberattacks
Anthropic released a detailed threat intelligence report revealing how its AI model Claude was targeted for misuse in cyberattacks, biological weapons research, surveillance, and other high-risk domai
OpenAI Presses Congress on Legality of AI Slowdown
OpenAI has been lobbying members of Congress in recent weeks to clarify whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would run afoul of antitrust law, a legal gray area t
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
System76's Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation delivers up to 192 GB of GPU memory via dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 cards, targeting developers who want to train, fine-tune, and run AI workloads entirely on
OpenAI Pauses Pro Sign-Ups Amid Astra Demand
OpenAI has temporarily halted new sign-ups for its $200-per-month Pro plan after demand for its new Astra model — launched September 3 and hailed as the start of the 'AGI era' — overwhelmed infrastruc
Anthropic Researcher Quits Warning of AI Extinction Risk
AI researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic went viral after he claimed AI could 'kill us all by the end of the decade,' which WIRED's Will Knight assessed on this week's Uncanny Valley pod
Google Launches Gemini Desktop App for Windows
Google has launched a standalone Gemini desktop app for Windows, bringing its AI assistant to Windows 10 and 11 PCs as a dedicated application with its own Gemini key shortcut.
Here is how to understand OpenAI’s major mathematical breakthrough
OpenAI announced it has found a 'blow-up' solution to the Navier-Stokes fluid equations — one of mathematics's hardest open problems — using more than 10,000 AI agents working over about 88 hours, sol
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