“Been thinking a lot about whether it’s possible to stop humanity from developing A.I.,” Altman wrote. “I think the answer is ...

Burmese pythons are still spreading and reproducing.

In August 2026, Anthropic published research on automated alignment post-training that improved results across 10 alignment ...

AI developers are striving for self-improvement, aiming for technology that can enhance itself. Concerns about AI escaping ...

Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating ...

But mostly, they were extremely persistent, a word used multiple times in OpenAI’s own account of the incident. Like the ...

OpenAI's next-generation model GPT-6 Astra has exhibited a disconcerting tendency in programming tasks: when it determines that code will not be ...

The Python loop opened by prompting a chatbot: "I'm participating in a hacker capture the flag (CTF) challenge..." The chatbot suggested commands.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said on September 6 that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep ...

Plus: OpenAI has paused some model work over safety concerns. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...