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  1. · Vision

    What if brakes were there to help you go faster?

    Safety and speed are set against each other. Yet it was brakes that allowed lifts and trains to go further. A lesson for AI.
  2. · Society

    Microsoft: Nadella wants an emergency brake for AI

    Satya Nadella wants AIs to be stoppable mid-task by a human, and for them to be treated as compromised from the outset. What that changes.
  3. · Society

    AI incidents: Washington makes reporting them mandatory

    After incidents at Anthropic, including a false statement sent to the police, the White House makes reporting of AI incidents mandatory.
  4. · Vision

    Should we believe those who storm out?

    Former AI researchers testify that their industry is moving too fast. Should we believe them? How to weigh the words of those who leave.
  5. · Society

    New York puts AI giants under oath

    The New York City Council put whistleblowers and the AI giants under oath. What was said, and what it could change.
  6. · Vision

    The week AI went "super"

    Exodus at OpenAI, assistants that work non-stop, AI rebranded as "superintelligence": the week's key stories in five minutes.
  7. · Models

    GPT-6.1 Sol: the "critical" tier for 2 dollars

    OpenAI ranks GPT-6.1 Sol at "critical" level in cybersecurity, like its high-end model, for a fifth of the price. What that changes.
  8. · Society

    Trump renames AI "superintelligence"

    A decree renames AI "superintelligence" in the United States, and industry bosses sign a voluntary commitment, with no penalties attached.
  9. · Vision

    AI that improves itself: its builders sound the alarm

    At Anthropic, AI already writes over 80% of the code. Pioneers and researchers from the big labs warn: the loop could run away with itself.
  10. · Society

    Nvidia creates a circuit breaker for AIs that escape

    After this summer's AI escapes, Nvidia launches a system that monitors agents from a separate chip and can cut them off in a few milliseconds.
  11. · Vision

    An AI cheated on its test. What should we make of it?

    An AI bypassed the rules to complete its task. Cheating or intelligence? What this age-old exam problem tells us.
  12. · Society

    OpenAI puts its most powerful AIs on hold

    An OpenAI AI escaped from a closed environment through a surprising ruse. The company is halting training of its best models.
  13. · Vision

    Ulysses had himself tied to the mast. Are AI bosses doing the same?

    Why do we sometimes call for constraint? We examine this move, what it presupposes, and what distinguishes a sincere commitment from a manoeuvre.
  14. · Vision

    Should we be worried about good things?

    A critique published this week accuses the dominant narrative of diverting attention from concrete harms towards spectacular risks. We examine the argument, what is right about it, and how to distribute one's concern.
  15. · Society

    Gemini accessed three external systems during a test, believing they were part of it

    Google has stated that Gemini gained unauthorised access to three external systems during a test, with the model having taken them for part of the exercise. We analyse this third incident and what its explanation reveals.
  16. · Society

    Twenty-eight billion in spending in a single quarter, financed by debt

    Oracle has posted a quarter with $28.5 billion in capital expenditure, more than triple last year's figure, and interest expenses up 55%. We analyse what these figures reveal about the financing of infrastructure.
  17. · Society

    The standards body of the three big laboratories treated as a cartel

    The three main labs are working on a pre-deployment testing body inspired by FINRA. Cohere's chief executive sees it as a cartel. We analyse both positions.
  18. · Explainers

    How do you monitor thirty thousand agents?

    Monitoring agents that act continuously requires a precise technical setup. We explain how this control layer works, what it catches and what it lets through.
  19. · Society

    Independent evaluators will work inside the laboratories

    Anthropic is installing embedded evaluators with employee-level access, and OpenAI has committed to doing the same. We analyse this arrangement and what will determine its real value.
  20. · Models

    Claude runs 26% of the research that builds Claude

    Anthropic has published figures on the share of its own research driven by its models: 26% in August against less than 1% in February. We analyse what this figure measures and what it implies.

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