A global sell-off has driven U.S. and major-market borrowing costs to multidecade highs, with investors punishing persistent deficits and inflation. Oil-market turmoil tied to the Middle East conflict is adding another volatile layer.
OpenAI has launched Dots, always-on agents meant to take work off users’ hands and challenge Meta’s Muse. The rollout puts the company’s biggest agent bet beside unresolved concerns over autonomy, privacy and control.
America.gov promises to simplify access to federal services with AI, but its shifting answers on the 2020 election and other sensitive issues have put accuracy, transparency and political guardrails under immediate scrutiny.
Trump’s voluntary AI accord won backing from the largest U.S. labs, but its reliance on company-run controls and nonbinding audits has sharpened the fight over whether self-regulation can contain frontier-model risks.
Anthropic’s filing pairs breakneck revenue growth and a vast compute-spending plan with unusually blunt disclosures about losses, customer concentration and the possibility that advanced AI could cause catastrophic harm.
OpenAI has unveiled Dots, always-on agents designed to take multistep work off users’ hands. The launch sharpens its challenge to Meta and others, while putting safety, privacy and autonomous control under a harsher spotlight.
OpenAI has launched Dots, always-on AI agents designed to take work across apps off users’ hands. The rollout pits an ambitious vision of personal automation against fresh worries over security, privacy and how much control people should surrender.
Trump’s White House accord asks leading AI companies to build internal controls and hire outside reviewers. Supporters call it a practical first step; critics say its voluntary, company-led model lacks enforceable safeguards.
Google says Gemini 4 Argon can lead in coding and cyber defense, but is limiting it to government reviewers and trusted partners while it tightens safeguards. The model’s headline benchmark wins now face the harder test of independent real-world use.
President Donald Trump and major technology executives signed a voluntary accord committing AI companies to internal controls, external audits and board oversight rather than mandatory government regulation.
OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign involving thousands of users that attempted to extract protected reasoning from its models to reproduce their capabilities without safeguards. The company linked a core group of the activity to Chinese AI company Moonshot.
Google is pitching Gemini 4 Argon as a return to the AI frontier, with standout coding and cyberdefense results. Its tightly controlled rollout, however, leaves benchmark claims and real-world performance still to be tested.
Google will automatically move Gemini users’ custom Gems into reusable Skills, but the shift trades a simple consumer-facing assistant feature for a more technical, command-driven workflow.
YouTuber Matt Robb says Meta’s Muse accepted a low offer and shared his address with a Marketplace buyer without his approval. Meta says its agents require explicit permissions in comparable cases, but the episode has sharpened fears about AI acting in the real world.
The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over potential consumer harms, marking a tougher federal turn after companies embraced voluntary safety pledges.
OpenAI introduced Dots, always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that can perform multi-step tasks across connected apps and compete with Meta's Muse.
President Donald Trump and major AI companies signed a voluntary accord requiring internal controls, outside evaluations and board oversight rather than imposing broad government regulation.
Trump’s White House accord asks leading AI companies to police themselves through internal controls, outside reviews and board oversight. Supporters call it a practical start; critics see a voluntary pact with no enforceable public safeguards.
Ken Griffin’s record-setting donation will fund a Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami aimed at major social challenges. The gift arrives as private philanthropy takes on greater weight for universities facing sustained pressure.
Trump gathered the biggest names in AI behind a voluntary safety accord built around audits and internal controls. Industry leaders called it progress, while critics questioned whether self-policing can match the technology’s risks.
