AI & Machine Learning

Anthropic has shipped two new models in the space of six days, and the pattern it is following points to a third. Claude Opus 5.5 landed on September…

Sam Altman has drawn a public line around how much harm he thinks AI should be allowed to cause on its way to delivering its benefits. In an…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said this week that the world should tolerate a certain amount of harm from artificial intelligence in exchange for the technology’s upside, a…

Google spent September 30, 2026 showing off Gemini 4 Argon, the frontier model it says beats rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic on most of its internal benchmarks. Nine…

Google spent the last week of September showing off its best AI model. It spent the first week of October taking models away from everyone else. That split-screen…

Google spent the last week of September 2026 talking up Gemini 4 Argon’s climb up the AI benchmark charts. By October 1, that story had turned into something…

Meta said this week that its Muse Spark model helped mathematicians crack six open research problems, then followed the announcement with an open-source hardware push called Muse Gadgets.…

Google is about to make its free Gemini tier a lot less useful. Starting October 9, 2026, anyone using the Gemini app without a paid Google AI subscription…

A senior safety researcher at OpenAI has walked out the door, and he isn’t staying quiet about why. David Robinson, who spent three and a half years inside…

OpenAI has dismissed three employees after an internal investigation concluded they mishandled confidential company information, the company confirmed this week. The news, first reported by The Wall Street…