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AILettering artist Jessica Hische designed the M logo for Meta's new AI assistant Muse, a two-day freelance sprint she says paid about $12,500. She said she took the job to cover payroll for her Oakland shops, and the decision drew heavy criticism from fellow designers on Threads.
AICatch Alex Bie at the @COLM_conf Google booth (#107) today, at 2:00 PM PT for an encore presentation of ContinuousBench, evaluating knowledge transfer and data contamination in DP synthesis.@GoogleDeepMind Join the conversation at #COLM2026!
AIGoogle proposed FlowAgent, a ReAct-style agent that generates and validates fixes for pre-submit test failures and shows them in its code review tools. Two abstention filters, before and after execution, suppress weak suggestions; in a manual review of 195 real failures, 67.18% of fixes were correct. After the Google-wide launch, it suggested fixes on 295,508 changes, with developers previewing 65,069 and applying 28,554.
AI…ultimagenomics, @Cellanome, @PrimeIntellect, and @boltz_bio. Registration is open now. Competition starts spring 2027:
AITop teams will be shortlisted, and their experimental hypotheses tested in Prima Mente's wet lab.
AI…backgrounds under combinatorial perturbations, with multi-modal readouts. The data will be made available through the AD workbench and Prima Mente's modeling platform.
AIToday we're taking the next step by opening a global AI competition to discover new treatments. Introducing the Alzheimer’s Translation Challenge, led by @PrimaMente and @AlzData. 🧵
AIAnthropic has updated Claude's usage policy for the first time in over a year, banning sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude. The company says ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, and model testing are not covered, and that the rule applies only in extreme cases. Violations can lead to warnings, throttling, restriction, suspension, or termination of access.
AIThree OpenAI safety and alignment employees, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni, were fired last week and have published an open letter to OpenAI's safety and governance committees. The letter argues that OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own, calls for open debate, third-party collaboration, and clear internal procedures, and says the firing and its handling bear directly on safety oversight.
AIMicrosoft will replace per-user OneDrive allowances on Microsoft 365 Family and Premium plans with a shared 2 TB storage pool, down from 6 TB across six accounts. Heavy users could face bills that double or triple, since each extra 1 TB adds $10 a month, while family members will be able to share a single AI usage allowance. New and upgraded subscriptions get shared storage starting Oct. 8, 2026, and existing subscribers move at their first renewal on or after May 2, 2027.
AIRobot Entertainment Kombat, founded by Cix Liv, hosted a September 18 San Francisco event where a human fought a remotely controlled robot and lost each match, leaving with a hand injury. The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist, saying the fights were unsanctioned and require approval before any bout involving a human. REK plans a robot deathmatch later this month with remotely controlled bots equipped with weapons.
AIGoogle's recently announced Gemini Agent for Gemini Business is reportedly set to offer Gemini Argon 4, Gemini Flash 3.8, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Sonnet 5.5. If accurate, it would mark the first time Claude models appear on Google's platform alongside Google's own models, which the post frames as a way for Google to compete for enterprise customers.
AIThe U.S. Department of Labor said it suspended Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program, citing multiple active federal investigations. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling also said no new applications will be accepted for Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL. Microsoft said the vast majority of its U.S. employees are Americans and that 80% of its roughly 6,000 H-1B petitions last fiscal year were to extend or change the status of existing employees.
AIExplore the full results: See Harvey's commentary on the evaluation and human expert preferences:
AICost per Task: GPT-6 Luna (max), GPT-6.1 Sol (max), Muse Spark 1.3 (max) and Grok 4.7 (xhigh). Grok 4.7 (xhigh) leads at ~$9.50 per task and Muse Spark 1.3 (max) comes second at ~$4.20, while the three Claude models cost ~$18 to ~$22 per task. GPT-6 Luna (max) is the cheapest at ~$0.22 per task, scoring 3.3%.
AII'm humbled to stand alongside so many giants of American innovation and looking forward for what we can continue to do together to advance technology and drive American prosperity.
AIActor Ben Affleck drew attention this week for explaining machine learning concepts, including convolutional neural networks, tensors, and transformers, in several recent interviews. He said he fine-tuned open video models by unfreezing weights and training only the last cinematic layer, using a dataset he built over about eight months for his startup. Affleck said he worries about students and learned helplessness more than Skynet, and predicted AI will be additive to the movie business.
AIArena, the crowdsourced AI model leaderboard that started as a UC Berkeley research project, raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures. The company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue in June, up from $30 million when it raised its $150 million Series A in January at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation.
AIOpenAI has reportedly told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, about $20 billion below a previously reported $70 billion figure. The Financial Times reports the earlier number came from investor attempts to compare OpenAI with Anthropic, which counts cloud partners' sales differently. OpenAI's IPO has reportedly been pushed to early 2027.
AIA group of mathematicians led by Terence Tao has called for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released more than 700 AI-generated proof files at once. Tao and other Fields Medalists argue that mass-produced solutions undermine the discipline's focus on conceptual understanding, while Scott Aaronson contrasts this batch release with Anthropic's collaborative approach. The article reports that the internal model tested about 8,000 problems with roughly a five percent success rate.
AITrump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in Meta stock and up to $5 million in SpaceX senior unsecured notes. The filing, which reports trades in value ranges, shows total activity of roughly $74.3 million to $273.3 million according to a CNBC analysis. The SpaceX notes were bought two days before Trump signed a national space transportation policy, and the White House says the portfolio is independently managed.
AIOpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to hard math problems but did not fully meet guidelines from the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Only 10 of 719 manuscripts included chain-of-thought releases, and just 42% of proofs were formalized. A Cambridge and King's College paper found discrepancies between a natural language proof and its Lean code for a Navier-Stokes-derived problem.
AIAutomation Anywhere Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice AI company, from Nordic Capital, to extend its autonomous enterprise platform into customer experience. Boost.ai supports more than 36 languages, serves hundreds of customers in regulated industries and Europe, and maintains more than 650 deployments and about 600 live AI agents. The deal follows Automation Anywhere's late 2025 acquisition of Aisera Inc.
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AIUSA Today Co. and several local newspapers it owns sued OpenAI, alleging the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models without permission. The publisher seeks damages of more than $250 million, arguing the unauthorized use has caused real and continuing harm. OpenAI did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment.
AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.
AIAccording to investor materials cited in the post, OpenAI's annualized revenue was $50B at the end of September, up from $30B in July and below the $70B previously reported. The post also notes Anthropic was at $65B annualized at the end of July.
AISemiAnalysis argues China's AI safety regime is speed-first, with rules covering content and public-facing services but no frontier-risk duties tied to training compute or capability. Its dataset of 857 releases from nine leading Chinese developers found only 31 (3.6%) ever had a published safety result, and just 9 at launch. The analysis also finds that technical experts favor binding frontier rules while the top leadership's development-first preference settled the policy debate.
AIPresident Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence," instead of "Super Intelligence," to be "THE ENEMY." The article reports that Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos have adopted the "super intelligence" term, and that ai.gov was changed to read "SI" while si.gov appears dormant.
AIFirmus Grid Ltd., a Nvidia-backed data center company, abandoned one of Australia's biggest-ever initial public offerings after failing to attract global investors wary of frothy AI valuations. The source provides no further details on offering size or valuation.