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- OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behaviorSep 17 – Sep 19 · rose for 3 daysClimbing2.7Climbing2.7 momentum
- A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developersSep 16 – Sep 19 · rose for 2 daysClimbing3.1Climbing3.1 momentum
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accountsSep 17 – Sep 19 · rose for 2 daysClimbing2.0Climbing2.0 momentum
- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attackSep 19Climbing1.7Climbing1.7 momentum
- AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievableSep 19Steady0.8Steady0.8 momentum
- Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?Sep 19Steady0.6Steady0.6 momentum
- OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behaviorSep 17 – Sep 18 · rose for 2 daysSurging6.0Surging6.0 momentum
- Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidentsSep 17 – Sep 18 · rose for 2 daysSurging6.0Surging6.0 momentum
- China's Huawei says AI chip demand outstrips supply as it steps up Nvidia challengeSep 17 – Sep 18 · rose for 2 daysSurging4.7Surging4.7 momentum
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”Sep 17 – Sep 18 · rose for 2 daysSurging4.7Surging4.7 momentum
- The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AISep 18Climbing3.1Climbing3.1 momentum
- A global AI safety strategy depends on U.S.-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problemSep 18Steady1.5Steady1.5 momentum
- A global AI safety strategy depends on U.S.-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problemSep 15 – Sep 17 · rose for 2 daysSurging4.7Surging4.7 momentum
- The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyesSep 16 – Sep 17 · rose for 2 daysSteady1.4Steady1.4 momentum
- An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting timeSep 16 – Sep 17 · rose for 2 daysSteady1.2Steady1.2 momentum
- Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worseSep 17Steady1.2Steady1.2 momentum
- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run leanSep 17Steady0.6Steady0.6 momentum
- Anthropic Just Asked the AI Industry to Slow Down. Nothing in It Asks Anyone to Buy Fewer Nvidia Chips.Sep 12 – Sep 16 · rose for 5 daysClimbing2.3Climbing2.3 momentum
- US military confirms it launched space weapons into Earth’s orbitSep 15 – Sep 16 · rose for 2 daysClimbing3.1Climbing3.1 momentum
- Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under disputeSep 15 – Sep 16 · rose for 2 daysClimbing1.7Climbing1.7 momentum
- Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWSSep 16Steady1.3Steady1.3 momentum
- Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’Sep 14 – Sep 15 · rose for 2 daysSurging6.0Surging6.0 momentum
- OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thoughtSep 14 – Sep 15 · rose for 2 daysSteady1.3Steady1.3 momentum
- Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinementsSep 15Climbing3.9Climbing3.9 momentum
- Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and modelsSep 15Climbing3.1Climbing3.1 momentum
- AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleaguesSep 15Steady1.0Steady1.0 momentum
- ‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AISep 9 – Sep 14 · rose for 6 daysSurging5.3Surging5.3 momentum
- AI Chip Stocks Diverge Ahead of Nvidia Earnings as AMD and Intel SurgeSep 10 – Sep 14 · rose for 4 daysClimbing3.9Climbing3.9 momentum
- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run leanSep 11 – Sep 14 · rose for 4 daysClimbing2.6Climbing2.6 momentum
- Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, tooSep 14Steady1.0Steady1.0 momentum
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