AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says
AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says

Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public, Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. Both companies worry that the findings could expose trade secrets. Both l…

UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release
UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release

Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. I…

Man uses ChatGPT to win three-year parking ticket dispute
Man uses ChatGPT to win three-year parking ticket dispute

ChatGPT came in handy for this man when he asked it for legal advice, and won a three-year parking fine dispute.

I tried ChatGPT’s new virtual fitting room — it got the clothes right, but changed my body
I tried ChatGPT’s new virtual fitting room — it got the clothes right, but changed my body

I put ChatGPT’s virtual try-on to the test with jackets, dresses and even a 1920s ballgown. The clothes looked realistic, but there’s a catch.

Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’
Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’

Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. “Ama…

Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Sri…

‘Calling an AI agent “rogue” is a dangerous way of deflecting blame’: Tenable Field CTO on the implications of AI agent escapes and how they can be regulated

I spoke to Bernard Montel, EMEA Field CTO, Tenable, to learn more about how AI companies are deflecting blame by labelling AI agents as ‘rogue’ when they escape testing environments.

AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?

At this year’s OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company’s new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to “set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.” OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta’s Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users’ data safe. […]

‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]

Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price
Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price

Sam Altman said OpenAI will put its mission ahead of its share price once it goes public, even if the stock “falls a lot”. The OpenAI chief executive said it in an interview with Vanity Fair, published on 5 October. Vanity Fair global editorial directo…