OpenAI says it fired Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for mishandling sensitive information. The researchers say they were punished for doing safety work — and warn the firings will chill open debate about AI risks.
Mistral Large 4 is here in preview: a 1.05T-parameter multimodal MoE via API now, with open weights promised by end of October. Benchmarks inside.
The Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters v. Ross — the first appeals ruling rejecting fair use for AI training. Why its reach is narrower than it looks.
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on September 30 — its newest frontier model, with dramatically longer outputs and cybersecurity-first early access.
OpenAI discontinued ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, 2026, folding its agentic browsing features into the ChatGPT app and a Chrome extension instead.
OpenAI’s Dots is an always-on AI agent that keeps working after you close the laptop — and it’s racing Meta’s Muse in a new privacy battle. Here’s what Dots actually does, what it costs, and whether it’s worth your attention.
Korea’s ETRI built ReAcTree, which nearly doubled task success rates with hierarchical agent teams — a 7B model beat a 72B baseline at long-horizon planning.
JERA, Dell Technologies and RHAELM have signed an MOU for a 400MW AI data center at the Chiba Thermal Power Station, with capital deployment above $15B.
A preregistered experiment with 1,100 Google Search users found AI Overviews and AI Mode reduce clicks to publishers — without improving user experience.
Google’s Gemma 4 family spans 2.3B to 31B parameters, with an encoder-free 12B that reads raw audio — all Apache 2.0 licensed and phone-friendly.
