News

Anthropic reportedly denied the UK's AI Security Institute pre-release access to Claude Mythos 5.1, the first such exclusion, amid protectionism concerns.

An Anthropic safety researcher says there's a greater than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within a decade, as warnings from inside AI labs grow starker.

Salesforce completes its Fin acquisition, bringing 30,000+ customers into Agentforce, and separately becomes FIDE's title sponsor and AI partner.

Bioengineer César de la Fuente uses Codex and ChatGPT to search genomes for antimicrobial candidates, cutting years-long discovery work down to hours.

OpenAI launches a Data agent for ChatGPT Work, letting non-technical staff query company data and build dashboards in plain language.

NVIDIA and Palantir launch a sovereign AI stack for supply chains, starting with NVIDIA's own operations, with plans to extend it across other industries.

Mistral and Cloudera announce a partnership letting enterprises deploy and train AI on their own data across cloud, on-prem or air-gapped environments.

Mistral details how it migrated 40,000 lines of Fortran to C++ for an energy client, and the lessons learned using AI agents for legacy code modernisation.

Mistral AI raises €3bn at a €21bn+ valuation in a Samsung-led round, saying it's the largest ever European tech equity raise.

An MIT student used GPT-5.6 Sol and Codex to automate quantum chip calibration overnight, freeing her to focus on experiment design rather than routine measurements.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar ties Astra's momentum and a new inference chip to broader growth, with a nod to an internal model's claimed Navier-Stokes proof along the way.

OpenAI launches a journalism training programme with Newmark and Medill schools, alongside a $5m fund for independent research into AI's effects on teenagers aged 13-17.

Microsoft says its Discovery Engine with CLIO beat rival AI agents on a new science benchmark, already helping discover a novel battery material. Human experts still validate every result.

Chief scientist warns no lab has solved AI alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed, calling for voluntary slowdowns and international coordination before it's too late.

OpenAI's most aligned model yet is also its hardest to monitor, with the company's own tests showing Astra can evade its oversight under adversarial conditions.