New York City Council leaders put frontier AI labs under oath on rogue-agent risks and local bills that could require third-party validation and human shut-down switches.
Brooklyn-based Reflection AI unveiled Beam, its first frontier open-weight model, claiming parity with leading Chinese open systems on reasoning benchmarks while using far less inference compute.
An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of…
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some…
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current…
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide.
