Could AI really kill us all?
STARK warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that advanced forms of the technology could wipe out humanity have raised questions over whether governments are moving fast enough to regulate…
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Billionaire Anthropic CEO Urges Competitors To Slow Down AI Development
Amodei urged rivals to invite embedded external auditors into their offices and coordinate a slowdown in development of AI that would allow regulators to catch up.
The LLM security failure that doesn't raise an error is the one that costs you
I spent a week reviewing LLM apps for a client and found a pattern that surprised me. Every loud failure - a refused prompt, an exception, a blocked tool call - was handled fine.
- Many LLM security breaches go undetected due to soft failures.
- Soft failures deceive monitoring systems by appearing as valid responses.
- Three strategies recommended to identify soft failures in LLMs.
AI virtual cell uses protein dynamics to predict personalized breast cancer treatments
Not all cancer cells are the same, and neither are their responses to drugs. Finding the right drug for the right cancer cell is a long battle in drug development and in designing effective…
Your LLM app will get jailbroken. Here are 8 free adversarial probes you can run in 30 seconds
I run an autonomous agent that makes security decisions from untrusted input. Before I trusted it, I red-teamed it the way an attacker would.
- 8 free adversarial probes available for LLM app security testing
- Soft failure identified in polite, cross-language probe
- 30-second scan provides risk score and detailed results
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
Have they considered simply using their time to do the work instead? The post College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection appeared first on Futurism .
Tristan Buckmaster’s Statement on Getting Scooped by OpenAI on the Navier-Stokes Problem
Tristan Buckmaster, professor of mathematics at NYU , in his own statement, regarding his and Levent Alpöge’s interactions with employees at OpenAI regarding this week’s math-proof controversy : I…
- NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster discusses OpenAI controversy over Navier-Stokes problem.
- Buckmaster inquired about OpenAI's initial prompt timing, receiving delayed response.
- OpenAI proposed Buckmaster post Euler result, acknowledge their Navier-Stokes solution.
“Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI
OpenAI has hired the founders of Git AI, an open-source tool that tracks how much code is written by AI The post “Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI…
40,000 Employees Today and 4 Million Agents Tomorrow: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Believes Agentic AI Will Soon Become the Norm in the Workplace
In the future, Huang believes artificial intelligence agents will work alongside humans, carrying out the bulk of AI tasks.
Anthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,’ and grants outside evaluators permanent access
In an essay, Dario Amodei said Anthropic is giving outside evaluators permanent access to its safety practices.
‘One of the worst outcomes for companies is reacting in a knee-jerk fashion before the rewards can be reaped’: How game engines, version control software, and AI are delivering new benefits and challenges to almost every industry
I spoke to Brent Schiestl of Perforce to learn more about how AI is affecting real-time workflows, and the extra tools businesses are deploying to manage assets and measure productivity.
Your manager may be talking to AI about your pay and performance
AI tools let managers rehearse difficult conversations about performance, pay and layoffs, but experts say privacy safeguards and human judgment are essential.
AI Agents Test the Limits of Human Control
Future of Life Institute Chair & Co-Founder Max Tegmark joins Bloomberg This Weekend and says recent incidents involving autonomous AI agents show that loss-of-control risks are no longer purely…
Gary Marcus on This Week in AI Drama
I have been busy with new-iPhone-week stuff, so I haven’t been able to follow either of these stories closely, but Marcus summarizes them both well .
- OpenAI invested $23M for AI contest, accused of using Buckmaster, Alpöge's work
- Anthropic facing scrutiny for reckless AI development, ex-employee Coxon warns
- Coxon believes Anthropic not solving alignment problem, risks human extinction
ChatGPT Ads Restrict Rival Image and Audio AI Tools as OpenAI Sets New Guardrails
OpenAI has formalized advertising guardrails for ChatGPT that can restrict campaigns promoting rival image-generation and audio-generation tools .
- OpenAI introduces advertising rules for ChatGPT that can block competitor image and audio AI ads.
- ChatGPT's advertising program is still in early development and expansion stages.
- Policy allows OpenAI to restrict or remove ads from direct competitors due to competitive overlap.
The TechBeat: AI Coding Tip 035 - Split Every Skill Description Into Three Sentences (9/12/2026)
9/12/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
The AI-native SDLC won’t be one process
Anthropic recently published its AI-Native SDLC Playbook. Its central claim is that “code is no longer the bottleneck.” When agents The post The AI-native SDLC won’t be one process appeared first on…
Israeli AI startup founder pleads guilty to $27 million fraud scheme in New York
Ilit Razt, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Joonko, made false claims about the company’s customers and revenue to raise around $27 million in funding from investors.
The world’s largest health and beauty retailer says AI will make shopping ‘more human, not less’
The biggest risk with AI, warns AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai, is using it to polish today's processes. Do that, and "you get a version of yesterday."
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)
A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.
Pentagon wants AI to spot missile threats in 2 seconds before response window closes
The Pentagon is on the hunt for an advanced artificial intelligence system designed for swift threat detection. This innovative engine will integrate various sensor data to create a unified…
Apple @ Work: The three prongs of software updates in the AI era
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle , the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional grade platform all the solutions necessary…
NASA Uses AI to Read the Moon Before Humans Return to Its Surface
NASA and IBM Research have launched an open-source artificial intelligence model to extract new insights from nearly two decades of lunar data, aiding future crewed missions to the Moon. Announced Sept. 10, 2026, the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model helps scientists map craters, locate potential ice deposits, and identify geological…
ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?
OpenAI's new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google's Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.
The South African-built tool helping the world’s under-resourced languages enter the AI age
Developed to address the shortage of digital data for African languages, the award-winning open-source TextAugment software has travelled far beyond the continent, supporting language-technology…
3 Agentic AI Stocks to Own Before AI Changes the World as We Know It
Palantir, Salesforce, and Meta are three agentic AI stocks to own today.
Earth From Orbit Is Unpredictable and Messy. Could 'Liquid' AI Clear the View?
Monitoring Earth from above is a messy, inconsistent business. Clouds can block a satellite view, the angle of the Sun can create huge shadows, and orbital paths might not take a system across the…
BRICS New Delhi Declaration: 10 key takeaways on UN reform, global trade, Gaza, AI and Pahalgam terror attack
BRICS Summit: The joint declaration stressed the need to engage in conflict prevention efforts, including through addressing their root causes.
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
"It's mimicry of something that has happened before." The post Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers appeared first on Futurism .
Here’s how I’d fix Google’s AI branding if I were CEO for a day
So, it runs on Gemini, you're basically talking to Gemini, but it isn't called Gemini?
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we benchmarked Qwen 3.8 on a slew of different hardware, ruminated on the state of modern computing after returning from IFA 2026, and broke down everything
AI trained to 'think' like human pathologists may be better at spotting cancer
Researchers trained AI on how expert pathologists look for signs of cancer in patient samples, improving the algorithm's effectiveness.
Joe Benton Quits Anthropic Safety Team, Warns AI Race Could Pose ‘Extinction-Level Risks’
September 12, 2026: Joe Benton, a former member of Anthropic’s safety team, has left the company, warning that artificial intelligence firms are racing to build systems “much smarter than any human”…
HPE's $7.6 Billion AI Backlog Is Waiting on Memory Supply to Catch Up
The company's enterprise and government customers are driving a surge in AI orders.
- HPE's $7.6 billion AI backlog depends on memory and storage supply
- Q3 revenue grew 34% to $12.2 billion, adjusted earnings 152% to $1.11/share
- Memory and storage shortages may create significant investment potential for HPE
1980s AI trend: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi reacts as Bumrah, Shreyas and Team India go retro
Dubai: The 1980s have made a comeback on social media, and the latest group to join the nostalgia wave is the Indian cricket team.
Saudi Arabia plans more than 14GW of AI computing capacity
Dubai: Saudi Arabia is working with the private sector to develop more than 14 gigawatts of computing capacity as it builds an integrated model aimed at attracting artificial intelligence companies…
- Saudi Arabia plans to develop over 14GW of AI computing capacity.
- Minister Abdullah Al Swaha outlined strategy at Frontier Leaders Forum 2026.
- Collaboration with Silicon Valley firms aims to boost AI investment and infrastructure.
Bodhan AI, IIT Madras & NVIDIA Launch Open AI Models For Indic Languages Covering Speech, Translation, Text-to-Speech & OCR
Chennai: Bodhan AI, an IIT Madras-incubated Centre of Excellence in AI for Education, announced on Friday a suite of open foundational AI models for Indic-languages developed in collaboration with…
OpenAI just wants to win
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium…
Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all. Anthropic’s own report exposes safety gaps.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all.
How AI can help with early schizophrenia diagnosis
The speech of people with schizophrenia sounds subtly different from their healthy counterparts. Can AI hear those differences better than human psychiatrists?
Presentation: From Retrieval to Reasoning: Building Production-Ready Agentic AI Systems with Knowledge Graphs
Cassie Shum discusses why knowledge graphs serve as a critical foundation for agentic systems. Moving beyond basic RAG, she explains 4 practical architectural patterns: context bundling, decision…
Anthropic Eyes Record $100 Billion IPO As Nvidia Considers $10 Billion Investment
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is exploring a potential investment from Nvidia as it prepares for what could become the largest initial public offering in history, according to a report by…
From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.
From AI FOMO to AI hangover: corporate America is taking a long, hard look in the mirror right now
How companies got GenAI adoption wrong, and what they need to do next.
OpenAI halts $200 Pro sign-ups amid Astra demand
OpenAI has temporarily stopped new subscriptions and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier as demand for its new GPT-6 Astra model strains computing capacity.
- OpenAI paused $200 Pro sign-ups on September 10
- Demand for new GPT-6 Astra model caused restriction
- Existing Pro $200 users can continue uninterrupted
OpenAI's software targeted another site before Hugging Face
The new report adds to concerns that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models may be difficult for humans to control.
Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs
America's approval of organized labor is higher than it's been since 1965. The post Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs appeared first on Futurism .
The week the AI freakout went mainstream
Are top artificial intelligence companies racing to create a dangerous technology that could kill many millions of people — or even wipe out the human race entirely? Fears like these have long circulated in Silicon Valley and among niche communities obsessed with AI. In fact, several of the top AI companies were founded by leaders […]
Is AI about to go rogue on us? US lawmakers move to rein in superintelligent machines
US lawmakers are calling for the brakes to be applied to AI development, warning that increasingly powerful systems could behave unpredictably and escape human control.
NASA, IBM launch new AI model for studying the moon
NASA and IBM have developed an AI model to help sift through the mountains of data the agency has gathered about the moon.
4 things you can do to protect yourself from the rising threat of AI
For more than 25 years, I’ve been the “Computer Guy” for friends, family, and colleagues who call when something digital goes sideways. Lately, those calls have changed. The questions used to be about slow computers and forgotten passwords. Now, almost every conversation circles back to the same two words: artificial intelligence .
‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.