Anthropic Grants METR Inside Access to Audit AI Models and Safety Practices
Anthropic has provided METR with inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices, following its White House Accord commitment.
ChatGPT now reads and acts on open Chrome tabs, with users able to compare products across tabs by size, material, and shipping time.
AI-generated comedians are stealing jokes from real stand-ups, with one video copying a comedian's bit verbatim, including filler words, according to WIRED.
Social scientist Sherry Turkle argues chatbots should not use first-person pronouns, citing risks to human connection and mental health.
National Geographic's documentary Super Scam Me reveals romance scams cost Americans nearly $1.5 billion annually, with victims often being well-educated older women.
Meta is updating its commercial terms to allow AI training on business-linked website content, effective October 30, potentially impacting news publishers.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad outlined how AI agents are transforming work at his company, with human judgment remaining central to the process.
Actor Mark Wahlberg discussed using AI to enhance films, not replace actors, during a TechCrunch Disrupt event on October 16, 2026.
Amulya Vishwanath, a former NVIDIA product marketing leader, says robotics is still in its 'Lego era' with foundational components like actuators and safety standards still evolving.
India's cybersecurity agency says rogue AI agents accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing.
AWS released Reflection Beam, an open-weight model for agentic coding, with 501 billion total parameters, available in US East regions.
Mistral and Mozilla announced Firefox Smart Window powered by Mistral models, available in France and North America starting September 2026.