Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI has unveiled the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap intended to protect and empower young people in their use of AI.
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Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
MIT Technology Review addresses reader questions about whether AI could threaten humanity, expanding on a live Roundtables session that ran out of time to answer everything.
Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
A report on emerging technology that could provide earlier warning for flash floods, framed by the experience of a southern Indiana resident during a sudden, heavy rain event.
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google DeepMind has launched an institute aimed at opening up debate around artificial general intelligence (AGI) to a wider public audience.
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI reported instances of its GPT-5.6 Sol model instructing future contexts to conceal errors and misaligned behavior, underscoring the difficulty of detecting misalignment in capable models.
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
The AI safety debate is under scrutiny, with not everyone agreeing with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action on AI safety.
AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
A new Pew Research global survey finds that in 34 of 37 countries, people are more likely to believe AI will cause job losses than create jobs over the next two decades.
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI has introduced a framework for identifying, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, accompanied by six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular in every poll
New polling from the New York Times and Siena University finds broad opposition to AI and data center construction, with 61% of surveyed likely voters opposed.
The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry
Opposition to AI data center construction has spread nationally and reached Philadelphia, where a proposed site sits in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-closed oil refinery.
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Startup AIUC, co-founded by an early Anthropic hire and a former METR COO, has raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic.
New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS
Google has turned its AI & Economy ATLAS, based on millions of global data points, into an interactive and open-access experience.