AI News
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OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
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Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
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OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
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Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document…
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Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On…
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ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On…
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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
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Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.












