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Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni say their firing scares staff away from outside safety work. OpenAI says they broke clear information rules, and Signal chats became the flashpoint.
Anthropic's first usage policy rewrite in over a year takes effect Nov. 12. It bars sustained cruelty toward Claude and tightens rules on elections, surveillance and weapons.
The 19-year-old who sold Cal AI to MyFitnessPal is back with Persona, a screenless wristband that sends voice requests to an AI agent built to finish tasks for you.
Google's new Gemini agent takes a goal, picks the AI model, splits the job into steps and can get its own work email. What it does and who gets it.
A US mortgage takes about 40 days and $11,000 in mostly human labor to close. Vesta just raised $30 million to hand much of that work to AI agents.
GPT-6 now builds charts, maps, recipe widgets and bill splitters right inside ChatGPT answers. Paid plans got it on October 7, with Free and Go users following a day later.
OpenAI posted 722 papers tackling 372 famous open problems, made by an AI model nobody outside the company can use. Here's what's inside and why experts are wary.
Type an idea, get a playable browser game. Google's experiment is open to US adults now, with usage limits tied to your Google AI plan.
Mistral Large 4 packs about a trillion parameters, takes aim at cyber defense and coding agents, and promises downloadable weights by the end of October.
Tab is an AI assistant with its own phone number, computer and wallet. You text it on iMessage or WhatsApp, and it books, buys and calls for you.
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