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Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction

The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.

Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists computationally search a space far larger than intuition allows and prioritize hypotheses before they reach the lab. Experimental results provide important feedback, helping researchers sharpen future research directions. The post Introducing Quine: An AI research

Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.

Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev

Ahead of AI published a technical article reviewing the history of language models for text classification, from bag-of-words methods to transformer-based approaches, to contextualize the recently released Jev AI model. The author states no affiliation with Jev and describes it as essentially a text classifier that is also not "just" a text classifier.

Making AI an asset, not an expense

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves from experimentation to production, model choice is only…

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

MIT researchers Brian Hedden and Manish Raghavan systematically evaluated objections to algorithmic monoculture and argue many either fail or are not decisive, while mathematically proving monoculture tends to create informational echo chambers that hinder exploration. Their paper appears in Philosophical Perspectives.

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more

Congrats team!

[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

a rare feature of a capability

Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who…

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, offering a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh. It is served on the bedrock-runtime endpoint through cross-Region inference profiles and supports the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles . Sonnet 5.5 suffered from the same bug as Opus 5.5 : the "max" thinking effort pelican thought for 128,000 tokens (at a cost of $1.28) before running out of tokens and failing to produce an SVG. Here's the pelican it gave me for thinkin

Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact

Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value. The post One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."