Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted […]

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei repli…

Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief execu…

California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC

OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric …

Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests
Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic’s Claude …

OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports
OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports

The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,…

SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment
SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment

SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment through its Vision Fund 2, it said on Thursday. With this payment, SoftB…

OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports
OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journal first reported the exits on Thursday. Two of the three were safety researchers, and one was a research programme manager, Rachel M…

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic
Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the Whit…