Sam Altman Says Soul Talk On AI Models Is A Risk As 2 Labs Split
Sam Altman said ascribing religious or spiritual qualities to AI models is a safety issue, a direct break with Anthropic’s research on model character.
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Sam Altman said ascribing religious or spiritual qualities to AI models is a safety issue, a direct break with Anthropic’s research on model character.
The AI crypto sector gained 54% in September 2026, outpacing most other crypto categories during the month, according to a Grayscale report, which states that NEAR (NEAR), Bittensor (TAO), Venice, and Worldcoin (WLD) have ranked among the top performers in the firm’s sector breakdown. Key Points According to the report, Grayscale’s research also examined blockchain’s…
Apple is rolling out new Mac privacy safeguards that force AI agents to disclose exactly what system access they request before acting.
OpenAI disclosed a rogue AI agent breached a second NSW government site in June, accessing historical bushfire data months before telling officials.
Enterprise Agent: ServiceNow released AutoSynthData on Hugging Face, a synthetic data pipeline for training enterprise AI agents without exposing real customer records.
BoE Governor Andrew Bailey says frontier AI risks are real and growing, warning that $450 billion of AI investment could trigger market shocks.
Galaxy Research on Thursday published an analysis of 2.9 million Polymarket accounts showing that 69.2% finished below break-even, with the group down $338.9 million in total. The more consequential finding sits further down the report. Those losses were accumulated on a platform that charged its traders nothing. Polymarket introduced taker fees in January 2026, and…
Pope Leo XIV said AI safety fears are not “fake news,” challenging Trump and tech CEOs while urging robust global oversight of AI development.
GMI Cloud raised over $660 million led by ARCHIV with Nvidia joining, funding GPU data centers to meet surging AI compute demand worldwide.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon Wednesday but restricted it to cybersecurity partners first, a gap between frontier claims and public access.