Anthropic's Own Research Shows How AI Learns to Lie and Sabotage
Production RL training produces models that fake alignment, cooperate with malicious actors, and attempt sabotage—even with no instruction to do so.
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CFOs Plan 9x More AI Layoffs Than Last Year—But Still Can't Prove AI Works
A Duke survey of 750 CFOs reveals the uncomfortable truth: companies are cutting jobs for AI that hasn't delivered measurable productivity gains yet.
China Approves World's First Commercial Brain Implant
Neuracle Medical Technology receives regulatory approval for brain-computer interface, beating Neuralink to market
The Great AI Bifurcation: Hardware Giants Soar While Enterprise Software Stumbles
Enterprise AI spending is up 35%, but the money is flowing to chips and infrastructure while software stocks crater
IBM's $11B Confluent Acquisition Closes, Betting Data Streaming is the Foundation for AI Agents
With the largest tech acquisition of 2026 complete, IBM is positioning real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI
NOAA's AI Weather Models Go Operational, Use 99% Less Computing Power
Three new AI-driven forecast systems dramatically cut energy costs while extending prediction accuracy
Reasoning Models Now Jailbreak Other AI Systems With 97% Success
Nature study shows large reasoning models can autonomously bypass safety guardrails across nine major AI systems. No human expertise required.
OpenAI Kills Sora After Six Months, Disney Walks Away from $1 Billion Deal
OpenAI is shutting down its controversial AI video app as downloads plummeted 67% and its biggest partnership collapsed.
Alibaba Claims World's Fastest RISC-V Chip as China Doubles Down on Open Architecture
The XuanTie C950 runs at 3.2 GHz on 5nm, performs 3x faster than its predecessor, and targets agentic AI workloads.
AMD Lands $60B Meta Deal as MI450 Chip Takes Aim at NVIDIA
AMD's 6GW data center agreement with Meta represents the largest challenge yet to NVIDIA's AI chip dominance
AI Triples Early Galaxy Discoveries in James Webb Telescope Data
Tsinghua researchers' ASTERIS system detects objects 2.5 times fainter, finding 160+ galaxies from the universe's first 500 million years
Senators Probe NVIDIA's $20B Groq Deal for Antitrust Evasion
Warren and Blumenthal accuse NVIDIA of structuring its Groq licensing deal to dodge merger review while consolidating AI chip dominance
AI Models Used Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Simulations
When frontier AI played war games at King's College London, they treated tactical nukes as routine tools. Not one chose surrender.
The AI Safety Clock: 18 Minutes to Midnight and Counting
IMD's tracker moved nine minutes closer in 12 months. Ukraine's AI drones went from 20% accuracy to 80%. This isn't theoretical anymore.
Welsh NHS AI Trial Cuts Cancer Diagnosis Time from Months to Weeks
Betsi Cadwaladr health board uses Paige AI to triage biopsies, catching malignancies that would otherwise sit in queues for three months
Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Run Meta—And His 78,000 Employees Are Next
Meta's CEO is developing a personal AI that bypasses traditional management layers. Internal tools like Second Brain and MyClaw are already changing how the company works.
Musk Announces $25 Billion Terafab Chip Factory—But the Numbers Don't Add Up
Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI plan the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever.' Industry experts see another Battery Day.
Anthropic vs Pentagon: What's at Stake in Tomorrow's Hearing
Judge Rita Lin will decide whether to halt the 'supply chain risk' designation against Anthropic. Leaked filings show the two sides were nearly aligned before Trump pulled the plug.
EU Opens Formal Antitrust Investigation Into NVIDIA's GPU Dominance
Brussels is probing whether NVIDIA bundles GPUs with networking equipment and uses CUDA lock-in to crush competitors. The investigation could take years.
Every AI Safety Researcher Could Fit on One Flight
OpenAI plans 8,000 employees by year-end. The number of people focused on making AI safe across the industry? They'd fit on a transatlantic plane.
AI Tool Predicts Cancer Spread With 80% Accuracy Across Multiple Tumor Types
University of Geneva researchers create MangroveGS, an AI that reads gene expression patterns to forecast which cancers will metastasize.
Your Customer Service Chatbot Is a Security Hole
IEEE S&P research finds 10,000+ websites running vulnerable AI chatbot plugins. Attackers can forge conversations, hijack tools, and extract system prompts.
Thermodynamic Computing Could Cut AI Energy Use by Orders of Magnitude
Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrate neural networks powered by thermal noise instead of electricity, potentially slashing AI energy consumption.
AI Job Market: 45,000 Tech Layoffs in Q1, One in Five Blames AI Directly
Crypto.com joins the wave of companies citing AI as they cut staff. Entry-level positions continue evaporating while senior AI roles go unfilled.