本周精选（近 7 天）
OpenAI 宣布暂停旗舰模型训练，称安全审查“进展不及预期”
OpenAI 发言人表示已暂停对其最先进模型的进一步训练，将在确认落实额外安全保障措施后才恢复。CEO 在社交平台表示相关审查进展慢于预期，Anthropic 同期也委托第三方机构审查自家模型行为。
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with…
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.
OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.
Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out
America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks…
Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since Apri…
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including cur…
OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" acr…
Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay
On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spell…
OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements
It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, and during a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman, it revealed several notable updates, i…
Meta’s Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing great emphasis on the s…
Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers
As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both…
Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "…
The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet near…
Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal…
Making AI an asset, not an expense
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. Bu…
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."
OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
Anthropic 发布 Claude Opus 5.5：百万 Token 上下文，标准调用成本降低约 40%
Claude Opus 5.5 支持 100 万 Token 上下文，标准 API 输入/输出价格降至 4/20 美元每百万 Token。案例显示模型可在跨 6 个代码库的工程任务中连续工作 18 小时，编程任务耗时与交互轮次约减半，能力边界进一步向 3D 场景构建拓展。
Anthropic 组织约 950 个智能体协同工作，21 小时完成 DNA 数据筛查
Anthropic 披露其调度约 950 个智能体在 21 小时内完成大规模 DNA 数据分析，筛选出新酶系统的候选线索并移交实验室验证。Claude Science 也已参与特定理论物理领域的复杂计算任务，AI for Science 的应用范围持续扩大。
Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border cross…
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molec…
The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyber…
Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cy…
阿里云栖大会：平头哥发布训推一体 AI 芯片“真武 V900”，Qwen4 进入训练阶段
本周阿里云栖大会集中释放全栈进展：平头哥发布新一代训推一体 AI 芯片真武 V900；Qwen4 已进入训练阶段，后续 Qwen4.5、Qwen5 将进一步扩展模型规模；阿里方面首次明确 Qwen 团队正在探索 RSI（自我改进）路径。
小米开源 MiMo-V2.6-Pro / MiMo-V2.6-Flash，API 价格稳定下性能进一步提升
小米发布并开源 MiMo-V2.6-Pro 与 MiMo-V2.6-Flash 两款模型，在 API 价格基本保持稳定的情况下，进一步提升了性能、速度与成本效率，延续国产大模型开源集体登顶的趋势。
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
多家大模型厂商被曝已就 AI 安全标准秘密协调数周
有报道称 OpenAI、Anthropic、Google DeepMind 已就 AI 安全标准秘密协调数周，试图在技术加速的同时建立起某种程度的行业共识，这一动向与同期各家密集发布新模型形成鲜明对照，技术加速与治理分歧同时被推上台面。
The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US governme…
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will foc…
Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s…
AI 竞争三条主线浮现：推理能力标配化、Agent 从工具变“同事”、基础设施军备竞赛
本周被认为是年内 AI 产品发布密度最高的一周：Google、OpenAI、Anthropic、Sakana AI 相继亮出下半年底牌，行业观察认为推理能力正在变成标配、AI 正从工具进化为“数字同事”，基础设施投入竞赛进入新阶段。
Cursor 3 发布：统一工作台整合本地与云端 Agent，告别多窗口切换
Cursor 3 将本地与云端 Agent 整合进单一工作台，开发者无需再在多个终端和窗口之间来回切换即可管理并行运行的智能体；云端 Agent 支持在关闭笔记本后继续运行长任务并保留上下文。
Google 将 NotebookLM 深度整合进 Gemini，笔记本双向同步
Google 把 NotebookLM 能力接入 Gemini App，用户可在 Gemini 侧边栏上传 PDF、文档、URL 与 YouTube 视频，内容会自动出现在 NotebookLM 中并双向同步，视频概览与信息图等产出也可在 Gemini 内直接访问。