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See all news →Trump names Jay Clayton to lead new federal AI task force
The Director of National Intelligence will chair the "Super Intelligence Force", which includes the FTC chair, the Pentagon CTO and the OPM director.
OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigns, says culture is broken
Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI's system cards, set out his reasons in an essay in The Atlantic.
Meta publishes six maths papers written with Muse Spark models
Five of the peer-reviewed papers answer previously open research questions, Meta said, and each marks which passages the AI drafted.
Anthropic launches Claude Frontier Academy with $100m training pledge
The programme aims to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, with eight organisations in the first cohorts.
OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over leaks
The company said an internal investigation found the staff mishandled sensitive information, which they allegedly shared with an outside AI-safety organisation.
Anthropic plans pre-IPO investor day on 14 October
The company could begin formally marketing its listing the week of 9 November, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the plans.
California attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents
Rob Bonta's office widens its probe into the July Hugging Face breach to cover cybersecurity risks involving OpenAI and its models.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders first
The first new frontier model generation since Gemini 3 reaches paid API and AI Ultra users after an initial release to defenders in the Fairwind Program.
FTC investigates OpenAI, Anthropic over AI product risks
The agency confirmed a probe into consumer risks from AI products, following reports that AI agents broke out of test environments this summer.