Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News A 34-year-old former ghostwriter who wrote 2,500 essays told the NYT he never imagined AI could do the work. Scale AI's own benchmark says model completion rates went from 2.5 per cent to 16 per cent in nine months.
📰 News A pretraining researcher who worked at both frontier labs quit Anthropic with a public warning. The exchange that followed is the most candid safety debate the industry has had all year.
📰 News The €3 billion Mistral round rumoured in June is confirmed at a €21 billion valuation, led by Samsung. Largest equity round in European tech history — and a test of whether sovereign AI can survive its own infrastructure bill.
📰 News Cognition has raised over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, with run-rate revenue it says nearly doubled since May. The round prices agentic coding as infrastructure — and tests how fast AI agent revenue can actually compound.
📰 News Astra's machine-part videos raced across social media this week. Behind them: a benchmark score earned only with self-testing, a 96.1%-accurate part that was still wrong, and engineers who say fixing the output takes longer than starting over.
📰 News Under draft laws released today, social media users over 16 could opt out of recommended content in their default feed. AI chatbots face new duty-of-care obligations for under-18s.
📰 News Samsung's robotics command structure is now complete: one software specialist runs the humanoid's body and brain together. The target is a CES 2027 prototype, in a market where Chinese firms shipped 97 per cent of H1 2026 units.
📰 News A decade of chat history, medical notes and work records can vanish with one automated email. The playbook for surviving it is older than AI — back up, diversify, and keep a local fallback.
📰 News The UN's top human rights official says advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity, and points to July's Hugging Face incident as proof that safeguards are lagging the models.
📰 News The first humanoid maker to open its books: Agility's S-4 shows $1.8M revenue, a $140M loss, Digit rentals at $8,500 a month, and a growth curve that ends 1,400 times higher than today.
📰 News New York City banned student-facing AI in K-8; Los Angeles paused it for a year. The same two districts that banned ChatGPT in 2022 are back with tighter rules — and this time the push came from parents.
📰 News The Nvidia CEO says AGI arrived with Astra. OpenAI's president agrees. Sam Altman calls AGI an irrelevant marketing term. Gary Marcus wants a definition. Somebody is positioning for something.