Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release
OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing.…
As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "ma…
" Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra's rel…
Most top AI systems today are built using a technology known as a tra …
The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show haven't opened to the public yet, but there's already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany.…
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US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years.…
Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed …
But those won't become public until the parties meet to work out any a…
They could include proposals like restricting Google from using self-p…
OpenAI accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits
OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the suspect in Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.…
The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on We…
Similar to the lawsuits filed by Tumbler Ridge victims' families in Ap…
LG’s CLOiD is a robot housekeeper on wheels, not legs.The company says it’s developing a robot foundation model by training hundreds of CLOiDs in home environments.…
| Image: LG The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the…
But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper ha…
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards.…
The company claims Claude Fable 5.
1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percen…
Along with the announcement, a slew of early impressions popped up, in…
OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post.…
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted enviro…
The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outs…