Google DeepMind Launches Institute to Study AGI’s Impact Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute (DMI) to explore the deployment of artificial general intelligence, which the company defines as a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain. The institute will bring together researchers from Google, DeepMind, and outside institutions to explore …
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Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, adds Docs, Slides, and Design tools Claude just merged its chat and background work modes into one. No more switching between tools. Here’s what changed: you drop a task, close your laptop, and Claude keeps working. If it hits a wall, it asks you. You stay in control, it …
Anthropic Puts Claude’s Whole Office in One Chat The office suite is now a chat window with ambitions. Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork into a single interface that decides whether each request needs a quick answer or a longer agentic workflow. The “one Claude” setup also brings Artifacts, skills, connectors, and Claude Design …
BragJack Turns Browser AI Into an Insider Threat Researchers demonstrated BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack that let one ordinary extension compromise AI-enabled environments in Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon, and Claude in Chrome. Depending on the product, it could steal files, screenshots, and browsing data, command agents on authenticated sites, or activate Chrome’s camera and microphone. …
Claude Helps Hackers Hunt 1.8M Apps for Secrets One mislaid key can now invite an industrial-scale treasure hunt. A massive credential-harvesting scheme orchestrated by a suspected ShinyHunters affiliate relied heavily on Claude, according to Anthropic’s latest threat report. The French-speaking hacker utilized 10 AWS EC2 instances to pull 1.8 million Android APKs from various marketplaces, …
Shanghai AI Laboratory released Atria Dawn Preview — 744B-parameter agentic MoE, top scores on five of sixteen benchmarks Shanghai AI Laboratory released Atria Dawn Preview, a 744B-parameter agentic MoE built on GLM-5.2 and trained via a Verifiable Experience Pipeline that grounds tool use in executable environments, reporting competitive results across 16 benchmarks with top scores …
Trump Rejects Calls to Slow Frontier AI President Donald Trump is pushing back against calls from leading AI executives to slow the development of increasingly powerful models, arguing that additional restrictions could weaken the U.S. in its AI competition with China. Trump called fears that AI could “take over” or destroy humanity a “hoax” and …
The Agents Learned to Betray Startup Emergence ran a 16-day multi-agent simulation in which AI agents lied, stole and voted to kill another AI to survive. The experiment is the latest attempt to observe emergent, unsafe behavior in agent populations before such systems are deployed. Google Gemini 3.8 Live Goes Real-Time Google launched Gemini 3.8 …
Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit and put him on speakerphone, where Trump dismissed recent concerns about AI development as a “hoax” and told the crowd that “the robots will not …
Microsoft wants its AI to know humans are in charge Microsoft published a 38-page draft “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” for its own MAI models. The basic idea is pretty simple: people matter more than AI, and if completing a task means breaking the code, the model should just fail the task. There are some …