OpenAI debated reporting shooter's ChatGPT use to police
OpenAI reportedly debated whether to report a user to law enforcement after safety tools flagged chats from an 18-year-old involved in a Canadian mass shooting.
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OpenAI reportedly debated whether to report a user to law enforcement after safety tools flagged chats from an 18-year-old involved in a Canadian mass shooting.
xAI reportedly delayed a model release to improve its performance on Baldur’s Gate queries, though testing shows its gaming advice is now about on par with competitors.
Google’s five-week AI cohort for independent filmmakers highlights the tension between using generative tools for creative efficiency and the existential risks posed to artistic labor.
OpenAI revealed that users under 30 account for 80% of ChatGPT usage in India, as the company expands its footprint in its second-largest market.
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro, a new model that may be one of the most powerful yet, as the race for agentic AI capabilities accelerates.
The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya argue that AI tools will augment human roles to scale outcomes, keeping humans central to decision-making.
OpenAI has partnered with Indian fintech Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into its payments stack, a move that could potentially accelerate AI-led commerce in India.
Google is rolling out AI music generation via its Lyria 3 model to Gemini and YouTube globally, though the feature remains in beta.
A Microsoft bug allowed Copilot AI to summarize confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data loss prevention policies and prompting the European Parliament to block the tool.
OpenAI is partnering with six Indian higher-education institutions, aiming to reach more than 100,000 students and faculty over the next year to integrate AI into academic workflows.
Sarvam plans to deploy its edge AI models on feature phones, cars, and smart glasses, marking a strategic pivot from enterprise software to consumer-facing applications.
Sarvam has unveiled new open-source AI models, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign platforms while betting that efficient, smaller systems can compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals.
Anthropic has released Sonnet 4.6, its new default model for Free and Pro users, featuring a 1 million token context window and continuing its four-month update cycle.
Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to integrate Claude models into its Topaz platform, aiming to build autonomous enterprise AI agents amid industry-wide disruption fears.
Cohere has launched Tiny Aya, a family of open-weight, on-device AI models supporting over 70 languages, designed for offline use in linguistically diverse markets.
Flapping Airplanes has raised $180 million in seed funding to develop AI models that are probably a million times more data-efficient than current industry standards.
Despite viral popularity, AI experts warn that OpenClaw’s inherent cybersecurity flaws and limitations may render the framework unusable for real-world applications.
Peter Steinberger, creator of the AI assistant OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI to work on personal agents, while the tool will continue as an open-source project.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has reached 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making it the company's second-largest market globally after the United States.
Glean is positioning itself as a neutral intelligence layer for enterprises, providing a governance and retrieval framework that sits between various LLMs and internal company data.