OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has spent weeks in discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind about managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. The disclosure follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's public essay urging industry-wide cooperation to slow frontier AI development, which drew support from Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Lehane said the firms don't need a government waiver to coordinate, despite antitrust concerns raised by some executives.
Apple has released iOS 27 to the public, with the redesigned Siri AI chatbot as its marquee feature. Alongside the update, users have discovered a hidden Easter egg referencing Apple's early Mac operating system history from the 1980s.
Asus is selling its ROG Edition 20 anniversary bundle—including the ROG Astral RTX 5090, a Crosshair X870E motherboard, a 3000W Thor Titanium PSU, and an open-frame case—for $10,849.96 on Newegg. With standalone RTX 5090 stock nearly gone in the US and third-party resellers charging close to $10,000 just for the card, this fully-loaded bundle now works out to be one of the least expensive ways to obtain the GPU.
At the All-in Summit in Los Angeles, Elon Musk suggested that leading AI developers—including his own xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and several major Chinese firms—allow competitors to run safety evaluations, or a 'test harness,' on each other's models before public release. The idea follows a weekend of warnings from AI executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei about the risks of unchecked model development, with Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman backing calls for a slowdown.
OpenShell published research on using formal methods, including the Z3 solver, to verify that permission changes proposed by autonomous AI agents remain within the bounds originally approved by a human operator. The team argues that as organizations scale from a handful of coding agents to hundreds or thousands running long, open-ended tasks, manual permission review becomes impossible to sustain. Their approach aims to mathematically prove that scoped agent policies never exceed the intent of the overall system's charter.
Copyright lawsuits by The New York Times, Ziff Davis and other publishers against OpenAI are moving into a new legal phase after discovery concluded, with both sides asking a federal court to rule on whether OpenAI's use of published material qualifies as fair use. Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah publicly criticized a Trump administration filing arguing licensing requirements would burden AI firms, contrasting the U.S. music industry's roughly $20 billion in annual royalties with OpenAI's projected $750 billion computing spend through 2030.
Leaker Jaykihn reports that Intel has cancelled a Nova Lake-S desktop chip variant pairing 4 P-cores, 8 E-cores, 4 LPE-cores with a 12 Xe3P integrated GPU. Instead, that high-graphics APU configuration is said to be delayed and reintroduced with Razor Lake, the architecture succeeding Nova Lake.
Researchers and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other leading AI labs issued a wave of stark warnings this week about the technology's catastrophic potential. Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio backed an Anthropic researcher's resignation over safety fears, saying frontier lab scientists see risks months before the public does. He also cautioned that current AI systems already possess hacking and persuasion capabilities that could be weaponized against humans.
A hardware tinkerer combined a cheap unlocked 4G wireless hotspot, a spare Clicks iPhone keyboard, and an Adafruit Sharp memory display to build a standalone texting device. The project relies on the open-source Openstick effort, which lets Linux replace the Android software running on these budget modems, exposing GPIO and other hardware features needed for the build.
JDK 27, the reference implementation of Java 27, has reached General Availability after build 35 passed as the second release candidate with no critical bugs found. The release bundles nine JDK Enhancement Proposals, including G1 as the default garbage collector everywhere, post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, compact object headers by default, and further previews of structured concurrency and pattern matching features. Oracle's GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds are already available for download, with other vendors expected to follow.
Uber has updated its senior accounts feature to let older riders manage their own accounts without needing a linked family member, an option that was previously required. The update also introduces a new settings page letting seniors customize arrival signals, enable a simplified interface, and flag mobility aids like canes or walkers to drivers. Separately, Uber is piloting an 'Easy Entry Vehicle' option in nine unnamed markets for riders who need cars without a high step to enter.
OpenAI and Anthropic executives have begun publicly urging caution about AI's risks even as their companies pursue trillion-dollar valuations, prompting MIT Technology Review to examine what a real slowdown would look like and whether the industry's own calls for restraint can be trusted. The publication is also hosting a subscriber roundtable discussing the credibility of AI extinction fears, once considered fringe but now voiced by researchers within top labs.
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