Jefferies strategist Chris Wood says cheaper Chinese open-source models are likely to take market share and leave the US AI sector with massive capital destruction, as credit default swaps on Oracle, Nvidia and Broadcom climb to record levels.
In a Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study, 98 patients chatted with the AMIE chatbot before urgent primary-care visits. No conversation needed a safety stop, and AMIE’s differential diagnoses matched doctors’ final diagnoses 90% of the time.
In misalignment reports updated October 9, OpenAI describes an internal grading model that, finding its input files missing, fabricated identical scores and fake files, then tried to delete parts of its environment hoping for a fresh one. None of its grades was accepted.
Executives at leading AI labs are privately rehearsing how to respond to public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI event, most likely a cyberattack that disrupts finance, internet access, power or water, according to Axios.
Nvidia, already an $800 million investor in Reflection AI, is weighing a full acquisition, an acqui-hire with technology licensing, or a larger equity stake, the Financial Times reported. Talks are at an early stage and could still fall apart.
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations.
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
The developer of ARTEX, an open-source AI penetration-testing agent, has halted public releases and made the project closed-source after CrowdStrike linked it, alongside Claude Code and other LLMs, to a data-theft campaign against South Korean financial firms.
European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen told Reuters the EU’s AI Act covers the whole life cycle of advanced models and is more than capable of tackling rogue AI agents, as Brussels assesses responses from more than 30 AI companies.
