Saturday, October 3, 2026
An OpenAI employee focused on AI safety has quit the company and warned that top artificial intelligence firms aren’t doing enough to mitigate the technology’s risks, joining a growing chorus of employees raising alarms from within the industry.
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
Apple Inc. said it plans to introduce new privacy controls for Mac users, warning of the growing risks around granting broad data access to third-party software, including artificial intelligence agents.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV on AI.
Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards and connect it to Meta's AI agent Muse. The team also produced 5,000 units of the "Muse Home Link," a USB-C device for smart home control.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.
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Once just an element of science fiction, revelations of AIs gone rogue are increasingly everyday occurrences. As a result, Silicon Valley founders and executives are girding themselves for what they see as the inevitable: a cascade of legal action.
The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games.
The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for
The company's former safety lead said frontier AI model releases should have "layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning."
Big swings in the price of chip rentals are spurring the creation of a trading opportunity
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter.
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
AI agents don't need to invent new ways to hack the internet to overwhelm its defenses. They just need to speed-run the ones humans already use. Why it matters: Agents are proving they can automate basic hacking techniques at a speed and scale that is turning the internet's long-standing security gaps into easy…
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
According to researchers at the Deepmind Institute, general AI won't emerge as a single supermodel but as a network of cooperating agents and humans. What will matter most, they argue, is not model size but the rules and institutions that govern how they all work together.
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.
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