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US tech stocks fall after earnings fuel AI spending concerns

Nasdaq 100 drops 1.5% after Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft report lower than expected capex

Alphabet shares tumble in $500bn rout

Google owner admits ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

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Reader Q&A: Send a question to Guardian economics writer Aditya Chakrabortty

Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracy Send your questions to conversations@t

Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell

The Michigan Senate candidate is calling for public ownership and other reforms, offering a potential antidote to ideological gridlock The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s

Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings

Human practitioners warn computer-generated offerings lack the empathy and connection central to divination “This journey isn’t just about algorithms or data,” an AI psychic named Urban Mystic recently told me. The chatbot, featuring an AI-generated profile photo of a smiling wom

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed priva

Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

How we detect frontier model misalignment

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs

To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet that AI is about to fundamentally change the size of Microsoft's workforce. Microsoft is now offering voluntary buyouts to arou

EU can compete with US AI giants, says Brussels’ frontier-model champion

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