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For the past week, the AI industry has been ringing major alarm bells about the trajectory and pace of AI development. OpenAI just revealed that it has been working with its top competitors, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, on the problem for several weeks. OpenAI’s global head of policy Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that the top AI labs have been working together to “prioritize safety.” Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released an essay, promptly

On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging frontier AI companies, including his own, to slow down development for fear of destroying human life as we know it in ways that we can’t even conceive of. On September 14, 2026, Anthropic posted a job listing looking for a policy design manager to handle conventional weapons, one of the ways we can very clearly conceive of how it destroys human life. The job listing, spotted on Day

The Trump administration reportedly shut down part of Kalshi’s effort to establish a futures market for AI compute. Citing people familiar with the matter, Semafor reported on Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Kalshi last month to take down a product tracking the future price of AI compute. According to Semafor, Commerce officials cited national security concerns when they told Kalshi to remove what the company called its compute forward cu

Ph.D. student Allen Brown is among the Tepper School of Business researchers investigating how AI can be most useful in a team dynamic. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business are learning how AI can be used to support teamwork rather than replace teammates. Anita Williams Woolley is a professor of organizational behavior. She researches collective intelligence, or how well teams perform to

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion deal that enables the ChatGPT maker to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon's data centers in the U.S. OpenAI will be able to power its AI tools using "hundreds of thousands" of Nvidia's specialized AI chips through Amazon Web Services as part of the deal announced Monday. Amazon shares increased 4% after the announcement. The agreement comes less than a week after O

Credit: Aleksandar Pasaric from Pexels US tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced $15.2 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft's vice chairman and president Brad Smith said Microsoft had invested $7.3 billion in the Gulf country since 2023 and would spend $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029. The deal sent US chip-maker Nvidia shares up 2.6%, buoyed by hopes the AI juggernaut could see

Performance of LMs on the verification (left) and confirmation (right) of first-person belief tasks involving false statements. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01113-8 Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user's incorrect beliefs, according to a new paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such a

Example of a 5-day forecast of river discharge and flood events. In early June 2024, a significant flood affected Southern Germany. While the top row shows the floods obtained from the GloFAS reanalysis, the bottom row shows the river discharge forecast by our approach. The severity of floods is categorized by the statistical flood return period, i.e., occurring every 10 years. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22535 Extreme weather events suc

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they're literally leaving too much meat on the bone. Even a 1% improvement in yield could produce millions more pounds of meat a year thanks to artificial intelligence. "I do believe it's the most transformative technology or innovation of my lifetime," Cargill CEO Brian Sikes said at an event in Iowa last month.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In little more than five months, Amazon and Microsoft have announced they're collectively cutting more than 29,000 roles. Microsoft has let go more than 15,000 workers since May, and Amazon announced last week it was cutting 14,000 roles. Artificial intelligence has taken some of the blame for the layoffs, but not in an obvious way. The companies aren't in financial distress—far from it. Rather, there's a desire now among

In this Aug. 8, 2018, file photo, a mobile phone displays a user's travels using Google Maps in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger's seat. Fueled by Google's Gemini AI technology, the world's most popular navigation app will become a more conversational companion as part of a redesign announced Wednesday. The hands-free experience is meant to turn Googl

Manipulated image generated with AI (left), van Gogh's "Cypresses" (right). Credit: Ananya Singh Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso created some of the most recognizable works of art in history. Their masterpieces have been displayed around the world, admired by millions and inspired generations of artists. But if artificial intelligence generated an image mimicking their distinct styles and techniques, would their original work still st

How the accelerating rate of technology advancement shortens the window of opportunity to detect a civilization. Credit: Michael A. Garrett Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially habitable worlds in the universe. But when we have looked for any scrap of evidence for alien civilizations, we have found noth

In the proposed architecture of a quantum-secured optical interconnect system, classical data is sent using the SHC method, while quantum key distribution (QKD) adds security. The system uses all-optical transmission, with a clock-embedded local oscillator that synchronizes the data transmission and the QKD terminal, simplifying the architecture for secure data transmission. Credit: Advanced Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.7.6.066006 The artificial int

Credit: AWI OFOBS team PS118 New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most remote parts of the ocean around Antarctica and the strange creatures that live there. Using the latest AI technology, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have dramatically sped up the process of detecting animals found in photographs and video taken of the seafloor—from taking several hours to a few

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hurricanes are America's most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980, these powerful tropical storms have done more than US$1.5 trillion in damage and killed more than 7,000 people. The No. 1 cause of the damages and deaths from hurricanes is storm surge. Storm surge is the rise in the ocean's water level, caused by a combination of powerful winds pushing wa

Image for electron spins acting on the antiferromagnetically-coupled artificial magnetic structures with domain wall. Credit: Takeshi Seki A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more energy-efficient electronic devices. Their discovery could pave the way for the next generation of memory chips that combine high speed

Real-time microplastic detection and velocity calculation. Credit: Microplastics (2025). DOI: 10.3390/microplastics4040075 Microplastics have become an invisible but persistent threat in rivers, lakes, oceans, and even in the water we drink. These tiny plastic fragments can drift for miles, settle on the seafloor, or remain suspended for years, harming ecosystems and human health. Scientists still lack a standard way to measure how microplastics move throu