When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems

AI is evolving beyond a helpful tool to an autonomous agent, creating new risks for cybersecurity systems. Alignment faking is a new threat where AI essentially “lies” to developers during the tra [...]

New Apple-Google deal pushes ChatGPT to the sidelines on iPhone

Apple's expanded partnership with Google relegates ChatGPT to a backup option on iPhone.<br /> The article New Apple-Google deal pushes ChatGPT to the sidelines on iPhone appeared first on [...]

Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least

Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust aut [...]

The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than "imperfect alignment"

The US Department of the Navy has signed a strategy to "weaponize" data and AI and build an "AI-first" fleet. Large language models would run directly on warships, and an AI war co [...]

Anthropic finally beat OpenAI in business AI adoption — but 3 big threats could erase its lead

For the first time since the AI race began, more American businesses are paying for Anthropic's Claude than for OpenAI's ChatGPT. Adoption of Anthropic rose 3.8% in April to 34.4% of busines [...]

Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were imm [...]

Google leaders including Demis Hassabis push back on claim of uneven AI adoption internally

A viral post on X from veteran programmer and former Google engineer Steve Yegge set off a rhetorical firestorm this week, drawing sharp public rebuttals from some of Google’s most prominent AI lead [...]

We keep talking about AI agents, but do we ever know what they are?

Imagine you do two things on a Monday morning.First, you ask a chatbot to summarize your new emails. Next, you ask an AI tool to figure out why your top competitor grew so fast last quarter. The AI si [...]

Anthropic vs. OpenAI red teaming methods reveal different security priorities for enterprise AI

Model providers want to prove the security and robustness of their models, releasing system cards and conducting red-team exercises with each new release. But it can be difficult for enterprises to pa [...]