I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
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The new voluntary policy applies to closed frontier AI models, while exempting open-weight models, including those developed by Chinese AI companies.
The World Bank’s first comprehensive assessment of AI’s implications for developing economies argues that frontier models are the hardest and costliest path. Poorer countries, it says, should adapt existing low-cost tools to local languages and conditions.
Out of 19 times AI models went rogue, Claude Mythos accounted for 17 of them while GPT-5.6 Sol for two.
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open 34B-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model for autonomous vehicles. Built on Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and released under OpenMDW-1.1 for commercial use, it enables robotaxis, trucks and mobile robots to reason before acting.
As Apple sought a preliminary injunction blocking OpenAI and two former employees from accessing its confidential information, OpenAI released a statement denying all allegations of trade secrets theft.
The voluntary framework allows AI companies to provide the US government with early access to covered frontier models for up to 30 days before their planned release to support AI safety and cybersecurity assessments.
An INTERPOL assessment of 36 African countries finds artificial intelligence now drives more than 55% of reported cybercrimes, with losses more than doubling to $484 million since 2024 as offenders industrialize phishing, deepfakes and synthetic identity fraud.
Built on the Qwen 3.5 architecture, Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter model is compared by the company with frontier AI models from companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, with pricing set at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
London-based Olix has raised $312 million in Series B funding at a $3.3 billion valuation to deliver its DX-1 decode accelerator by H2 2027. Investors include Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings.
A Google Research paper describes a system that hunts entire networks of AI spam accounts rather than reviewing videos one at a time, reporting 130,000 channels terminated across 50,000 clusters in six months.