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OpenAI announced that it is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to be hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Continue Reading →

Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon. As of Sunday night, Muse users who try see a popup that says, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." Continue Reading →

Something strange happened this week. For the first time since Apple started making iPhones, they launched a flagship phone and, not only did I not order one, I didn’t even think about it. I watched the keynote on September 9. Yawned… thought about the iPhone Duo for about 10 seconds. But giving up camera capabilities for more screen real estate was a non-starter. And, after hearing about the marginally incremental feature improvements, I hardly even considered replacing my iPhone 17 Pro Max with an 18. I’m not surprised by my lack of interest. I’m surprised that Apple could not pique it. Let’s explore. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, Anthropic published three measurements of how fast AI is being built inside its own lab: how much of its AI R&D is performed by AI, how well its AI agents are overseen, and how its compute is allocated. Continue Reading →

On Wednesday, Anthropic began merging Claude Cowork and Claude chat into one Claude: “You don’t have to choose where a task goes.” Continue Reading →

The internet has a new favorite toy, and it is a flybrain scheme. Earlier this month, HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Google Research, and their collaborators published research describing the first complete wiring diagram of an entire male fruit fly central nervous system. Continue Reading →

Microsoft AI published its "Humanist AI Code of Conduct," a draft governing document for the models it builds. Continue Reading →

Frontier models are about to become the most powerful cyber weapons ever built. Governments around the world have figured this out, and their posture toward AI has changed accordingly. A model that can read code, find flaws, write exploits, and chain them together at machine speed is a weapon in every sense of the word. Continue Reading →

On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →

Two AI science stories broke yesterday. OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (which describe how fluids move, from blood circulation to weather) can develop a singularity in finite time. Continue Reading →