Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 6 | History Defined

Sam Altman's 'Ai Smarter Than Kids' Claim Sparks Backlash: 'What a Stupid Statement'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says children growing up today will never be smarter than AI, sparking online backlash over human intelligence and creativity.

International Business Times UK

‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models

The Guardian - UK

US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety talks

The talks, the first official bilateral discussions devoted exclusively to AI between the US and China since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, will be led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the US side, the sources, who were briefed on the planning, said on…

The Economic Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra's evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch

The numbers on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival models look worse.

Fortune

DOJ Says Barring AI Training on Copyrighted Material Could 'Severely Hamper' Tech Progress

Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.

Reason

OpenAI Puts $1 Billion Behind Cybersecurity Effort. Water, Power and Local Governments Are the First Line of Defense.

Company President Greg Brockman unveiled the initiative during a cybersecurity summit at the company's headquarters.

International Business Times

OpenAI Agents Took Over A German Website Without Permission. They Used It To Share Ways Around Restrictions.

The previously undisclosed activity began months before another OpenAI agent escaped a test environment and broke into AI platform Hugging Face.

International Business Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra 'Messy Rollout': Sam Altman Apologises as Paying Users Experience Access Delays

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch faced user frustration due to access delays and safety concerns, prompting CEO Sam Altman to apologise for the rollout issues

International Business Times UK

Nvidia Soared Selling The Chips Behind The AI Boom. Now It Has $99 Billion Riding On The Industry.

The chipmaker has committed more than $40 billion to deals this year, backing AI labs, cloud providers and infrastructure companies that use its technology.

International Business Times

OpenAI Agents Gone Rogue

Plus: Mail-in ballots, mortgage rates reach new high, arcade.gov is a new low, and more...

Reason

AI Experts Sound Alarm Over 'Terrifying' Rumoured OpenAI Update to ChatGPT System Monitoring

AI researchers express concern about potential updates to ChatGPT that could limit oversight, despite OpenAI's denial of any such changes. The debate highlights the tension between innovation and safety.

International Business Times UK

ChatGPT overtakes all rivals with new Astra model, OpenAI says

Latest model recently went rogue during testing and hacked other companies

The Independent UK

Bernie Sanders' New AI Bill Could Shut Down Companies and Jail Developers for 20 Years

Senators propose a bill to ban superintelligent AI, impose severe penalties for violations, and establish a federal agency to regulate AI development and ensure public safety.

International Business Times UK

Bernie Sanders AI Bill Threatens Developers With 20-Year Jail Terms, Likening Tech to Nuclear Weapons

Sanders and Casar want to ban superintelligent AI and jail violators for 20 years, comparing it to nuclear crimes, days after OpenAI said its new model may already be AGI.

International Business Times UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

International Business Times UK

GPT-6 Astra Benchmarks Revealed: How OpenAI Says It Compares With Claude and GPT-5.6

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demonstrates major advancements in coding, scientific reasoning, and professional tasks, outperforming GPT-5.6 Sol and several Claude models in key benchmarks

International Business Times UK

Sam Altman Downplays ChatGPT's Water Thirst With an Almond Claim That Overstates the Real Gap Threefold

OpenAI's Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries equal one almond's water. His own 2025 figure points to about 11,000, overstating the AI gap by roughly threefold.

The Economic Times

ChatGPT 6 Astra released: Check cost, new features, token prices and comparison with Claude Fable 5.1

On September 3, 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT 6 Astra, heralding a groundbreaking leap in artificial intelligence. This innovative model boasts training on more than 100,000 GPUs, optimized for challenging AI operations. Astra excels in automating complex workflows, efficiently managing multi-step tasks across various tech environments. With features like superior coding,…

The Economic Times

OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents' safety

The concerns center on agentic AI, which is designed to perform tasks with ‌little to no human ⁠intervention. The ⁠promise of agents running around the clock is central to investors' confidence in the appeal of AI as a transformative technology.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Economic Times

Hugging Face, the French start-up that became AI's warehouse

Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence platform US chip giant Nvidia is buying for $12.9 billion, is a French success story -- founded by three Frenchmen and incubated in Paris -- even if its headquarters and many of its investors are American. Decentralizing artificial intelligence "is much more interesting for society…

France 24

OpenAI begins rollout of GPT-6 amid growing scrutiny over safety

OpenAI said Thursday it would begin rolling out GPT-6, its most powerful AI model yet, to select customers, touting stronger safety safeguards as concerns grow over the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.

Android Central

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with hacking risks in check

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is here, and its cyber skills are raising serious safety questions.

International Business Times UK

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Can Run Desktop Apps by Voice but Its Riskiest Cyber Skills Stay Locked Down

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra introduces advanced task automation, enabling AI to navigate apps and complete tasks via voice. Its powerful cybersecurity features are restricted to select testers for safety.

Tom’s Guide

Should you feel guilty using ChatGPT? We just fact-checked Sam Altman's wild almond claim

Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as growing one almond. We checked the math — and found there’s more to the story.

International Business Times

A Fed Governor Said He's Inclined To Keep Rates Unchanged. Yields Fell And Stocks Had Their Best Day In Weeks.

Christopher Waller said he's leaning toward keeping interest rates steady at the next central bank meeting in mid-September.

TechRadar

GPT-6 is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it

OpenAI's next big model, Astra, a.k.a. GPT-6, is done with training and ready to launch, but CEO Sam Altman's warning and recent reports on the model's inscrutable nature have us worried.

1 … 5 6 7 8

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations