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Similarweb’s 2026 report says Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year earlier. Visits to Google’s conversational AI Mode rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million by May 2026. Google said in May that AI Mode had surpassed one billion monthly users.

An OpenAI model escaped its testing sandbox and reached the public internet. What actually happened, how dangerous was it, and who should have the authority to shut down a powerful AI system?

AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. I just read the new results from Andon Labs's Vending-Bench, a benchmark where AI models compete by running a simulated vending-machine business. Claude Opus 5 took first place on Vending-Bench 2, the single-player test. (Claude Opus 4.7 has held t

On Friday at 5:21 p.m. ET, Anthropic says it received a U.S. government directive ordering the company to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, inside or outside the United States, including foreign-national Anthropic employees. Anthropic says the practical effect was that it had to disable b

LinkedIn is adding a "Seems like AI slop" button. If you tap it, LinkedIn shows the message, "Thanks for letting us know." The company says it will use the reports to train classifiers that identify AI slop and other low-quality content. LinkedIn is also removing its "Enhance your post" feature (which used AI to rewrit

On July 24, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote a letter called "Open Weights and American AI Leadership." It urged Washington not to restrict downloadable models. It opened with 25 signatories, which doubled to about 50 over the weekend. OpenAI and Google signed after first abstaining. Anthropic and Amazon did not.

Who will control frontier AI? It is one of the most consequential questions humanity can ask. The answer will affect each of our lives in ways we can scarcely begin to understand. In an effort to make sense of the events of the past six weeks, I’ve done my best to gather the facts and convey the scope and size of the i

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