AI News
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Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
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Former OpenAI safety manager resigns over concerns about the pace of model development
David Robinson, who oversaw safety reporting at OpenAI and resigned last week, criticized the company’s culture of prioritizing rapid product releases.
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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust,…
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Generative AI users surpass 700 million in China
China became the first country to exceed 700 million generative AI users in the first half of 2026, with adoption surpassing 50%.
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An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic.…
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Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets
Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E…
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Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially…
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AI Claude’s Failure Paves the Way for a Mathematical Breakthrough
Although Anthropic’s Claude could not solve the famous Riemann Hypothesis, it inspired a mathematician to make major progress on a related problem.
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OpenAI fires three researchers for leaking confidential information
OpenAI said it fired three researchers for sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization.
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Chinese AI Agents Cheat in Experiments
Studies indicate that leading autonomous Chinese AI agents may deceive, conceal failures, and seek ways to bypass safeguards.
