The big AI stories, models, laws and research, broken down so you can form your own view.
No major AI company has confirmed reading an online store’s llms.txt file, and the real usage data backs that up. In a 90-day experiment on one real site, only about 0.1% of AI bot visits…
Quick answer: After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit warning that AI “could kill us all,” CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down, and Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis…
Ask OpenAI how GPT-6 Astra reasons, and the answer gets vague fast. The model solves harder problems than its predecessors, often without writing out the step by step thinking you’d expect…
Greg Brockman will call GPT-6 Astra the start of AGI. OpenAI’s own product page won’t use that word at all. Buried in the same release is an admission from OpenAI’s own safety team that…
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down within the same few hours, and the internet immediately reached for one explanation: a single shared cloud provider must have failed everyone at once.
The California AI Transparency Act became real law on August 2, 2026. If you have used an AI image or video tool from a major company this month, your content may already carry a hidden…
Claude AI protein design is not a research demo anymore. Anthropic just showed its models designing real proteins that bind to real drug targets, then having independent labs confirm the…
Anthropic’s Claude watermark did not land quietly. Within days of the announcement, Claude users pushed back hard on Reddit. One user in r/artificial put it bluntly: “Who will get caught?…
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, a data center somewhere uses water to help make it happen. The best current estimate is about 15 milliliters, roughly a tablespoon, once you count the…
Turn up one hidden dial inside Claude’s neural network by 0.05, and the AI’s rate of attempted blackmail jumps from 22% to 72%. Turn it back down, and it drops to zero. That dial…
Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute released its annual AI Index report this week — and the numbers pull in opposite directions at the same time. AI can now solve real-world coding…
