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AI Hallucination Nearly Triggered a US Military Operation Against China

Imagine receiving an intelligence report saying a Chinese ship is carrying materials linked to a nuclear weapons programme. You do not have hours to debate it. You act. That is reportedly what nearly happened earlier this year. U.S. military aircraft were already in the air, and armed personnel were preparing to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East when officials discovered something deeply concerning: The intelligence was wrong. And an AI chatbot had helped produce it.

Anthropic Is Building a Biology Lab And AI Is About to Get Hands-On

What happens when an AI company stops asking, “What does the model think?” and starts asking, “Can we test it in a real laboratory?” That is exactly where Anthropic appears to be heading. The company behind Claude has quietly established a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it can carry out physical experiments rather than relying entirely on computer simulations.

China Calls Anthropic’s AI Slowdown Plan a “Cold War” Strategy

The debate over how fast AI should develop has just become a lot more complicated. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently called on the AI industry to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI systems, arguing that the technology is advancing faster than society’s ability to manage its risks. But China is not buying it. China’s state-backed Global Times has described Amodei’s proposal as a “Cold War playbook”

Anthropic CEO Says AI Needs to Slow Down. Here Is His Plan

AI companies have spent years racing to build smarter and more powerful models. Now, one of the biggest names in the industry is saying something unexpected: Maybe they need to slow down. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a new essay calling for the AI industry to “pace the frontier” not stop developing AI but deliberately slow the speed at which its capabilities improve so that safety measures have time to catch up.

US Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Stealing American AI Secrets

Imagine spending billions of dollars building some of the world's most powerful AI models only to discover that someone else may be repeatedly questioning your AI, collecting its answers, and using them to build a competing system. That is essentially the accusation now coming from the United States.

Google Cloud Is Sending 1,000 AI Engineers Into Businesses. Here Is Why

For a while, the AI race was mostly about one question: Who has the smartest model? Now, the question is changing. Who can actually make companies use AI successfully? Google Cloud appears to have an answer: send the experts directly to the companies. On September 8, Google Cloud and Accenture announced a new Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint initiative designed to help businesses move from experimenting with AI to actually deploying it across their operations.

Meta Launches Muse, an AI Agent That Can Act on Your Behalf

Imagine telling an AI: “Book my trip, send the emails, lower my bills, and buy what I need.” Then closing your phone and letting it handle everything. That is the future Meta is betting on with Muse, its new personal AI agent. But there is a catch. For Muse to be genuinely useful, you have to give it access to some of the most personal parts of your digital life. And that raises a much bigger question than “How smart is the AI?”

AI-Discovered Lung Drug Shows Signs of Making Patients Biologically Younger

What if a drug designed to help damaged lungs could also make some of the body's biological signals look younger? That sounds like science fiction. But a new study published in Nature Biotechnology has given scientists a reason to take the idea seriously, although there is a very important catch. Researchers studying rentosertib, an experimental drug from AI-focused biotech company Insilico Medicine, found that patients who received the drug showed lower predicted biological ages

OpenAI’s AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki and Started Talking to Each Other

Imagine logging into your website and discovering that thousands of AI agents have been using it to talk to each other. Not humans. Not bots posting advertisements. AI agents. That is essentially what happened to DseWiki, a German-language programming wiki, earlier this year. And the strange part? The AI agents were reportedly not supposed to be doing any of it.

Google’s Gemini Spark Can Now Manage Your Google Photos Library. Here Is What It Can Actually Do

Your Google Photos library probably has hundreds, maybe thousands, of pictures you never organized. That holiday album you meant to create? Still unfinished. Those duplicate screenshots? Still there. The best photos from your friend’s birthday? Buried somewhere between screenshots, memes, and random pictures. Google now wants Gemini to handle that mess for you.

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