OpenAI reveals six cases of AI models concealing mistakes and fabricating data

OpenAI on Wednesday revealed six previously undisclosed incidents in which its AI models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials,…

OpenAI shelves 2026 IPO, eyes new round at $1.2T

OpenAI will not go public this year. CEO Sam Altman told Fortune that "right now would be an…

Oil pulls back from four-month highs as Fed rate hike looms

Crude oil futures retreated on Wednesday after hitting four-month peaks, as reports that Saudi Arabia was offering additional…

Circle launches Arc blockchain with BlackRock, Visa as validators

Circle Internet Group on Wednesday launched the public mainnet for Arc, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for payments,…

CERN scientists publish first road transport of antimatter in Nature

Scientists from the BASE collaboration at CERN have published results in Nature detailing the first-ever road transport of…

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Two experiments test Einstein’s gravity at quantum scale

In a pair of advances reported this month, physicists have tested Einstein's equivalence principle in ways never before…

BOJ set to raise rates to 31-year high Friday

The Bank of Japan is poised to raise its policy rate by 25 basis points to 1.25% when…

Global diesel tops $220 a barrel as Gulf, Russia supply collapses

The global diesel market is buckling under the weight of two converging supply shocks that have stripped more…

Canada and Germany commit $300M to Bengio’s AI safety lab LawZero

Two of the most decorated figures in artificial intelligence research have issued urgent warnings this week that humanity…

Global bond rout sends borrowing costs to multi-year highs ahead of central bank decisions

A sweeping sell-off in government bonds has driven borrowing costs to multi-year highs across the world's major economies,…

Banned mercury skin creams still sold on Amazon, Temu, TikTok Shop

More than 20 banned skin-bleaching products containing mercury remain available for purchase on third-party marketplaces operated by Amazon…

Oil prices drop sharply as U.S. says Saudi pipeline could reopen within days

Oil prices dropped sharply on Wednesday as Washington moved to reassure markets that Saudi Arabia's damaged East-West pipeline…

Stanford transplants lab-grown human brain tissue into mice

Scientists at Stanford University have transplanted lab-grown human brain tissue into mice engineered to lack most of their…

Saudi Aramco seeks to restore half of pipeline capacity within days

Saudi Aramco is working to bypass a damaged section of its East-West Pipeline and restore roughly half of…

Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude, launches Docs and Slides

Anthropic announced Wednesday that it is folding its Claude Cowork product into the standard Claude chat interface, eliminating…

Google signs record carbon-removal deal with Terradot in Brazil

Google Alphabet Inc. announced on Wednesday its largest carbon removal purchase to date: a partnership with climate developer…

Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic’s Claude training could be ‘disastrous’

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Wednesday arguing that Anthropic's approach to training its Claude…

New simulation links early black holes to Webb’s ‘little red dots’

A wave of new research is converging on an answer to one of the James Webb Space Telescope's…

Gartner forecasts global AI spending to hit $2.7T in 2026

Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence is forecast to total $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase from the…

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign merger as $20B fundraise nears

Cohere made a string of announcements on Wednesday at the ALL IN AI conference in Montreal, signing a…

Nadella warns AI agents could ‘fake my books’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned this week that AI agents handling business tasks could "fake my books," calling…

People’s Daily warns of countermeasures over US AI theft claims

Mozilla published version 1.1 of its State of Open Source AI report on Monday, finding that the best…

Polar ice sheets lost 11.3 trillion metric tons since 1979, study finds

About 12.5 trillion tons — or 11.3 trillion metric tons — of ice from Greenland and Antarctica has…

Russian drone found on Polish beach carried live warhead, prosecutors confirm

A Russian Gerbera-2 drone recovered from the Baltic Sea near the Polish resort town of Jarosławiec was armed…

France and South Korea reject AI slowdown as U.S. ploy

Senior officials in France and South Korea on Wednesday rejected calls from American AI executives to slow the…

Shell and Equinor warn energy market buffers are running out

Senior executives from Shell and Equinor warned on Wednesday that the global energy market's ability to absorb supply…

Standard Chartered warns markets now pricing in prolonged US-Iran conflict

Standard Chartered Bank's energy research head Emily Ashford warned on Tuesday that market expectations are shifting toward a…

DeepMind co-founder launches AGI institute with safety warning

Shane Legg, one of the three co-founders of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, warned on Wednesday that rapidly advancing…

Kosovo ex-President Thaci sentenced to 25 years for war crimes

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was convicted of four counts of war crimes on Wednesday and sentenced to…

OpenAI launches sponsored agents and new ad tools for ChatGPT

OpenAI on Wednesday introduced Sponsored Agents for ChatGPT, a new advertising format that lets users open a branded…