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More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an intelligence explosion. They include OpenAIs chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are [] This story continues at The Next Web

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UKs AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must harden their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Partys annual conference. Fortunes Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic ends enterprise customers discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies. When Anthropic customers hit their contracted token volume, they must [] This story continues at The Next Web

A YouTuber says Metas Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasnt. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price, Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse [] This story continues at The Next Web

Floridas attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidias board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share repurchase authorisation in history. This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan CJ Desai will run it. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, Zuckerberg wrote. The unit will first offer Metas full technology stack to businesses [] This story continues at The Next Web

Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell them they are dealing with [] This story continues at The Next Web

Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and plans its first clinical trials [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousands. The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes and hijacking websites. Models also prompted themselves or tried to [] This story continues at The Next Web

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinpings state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology super intelligence rather than artificial intelligence. The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web

Modulate, a Boston company that builds AI models to analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts, has raised $25M in a round led by Future Ventures. Hyperplane and Lakestar also took part, bringing the companys total funding to $60M. The company was founded by Mike Pappas and Carter Huffman, who first met at [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAIs AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. This is not an appropriate use of this data, OpenAI said. The images came from accounts [] This story continues at The Next Web

YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibneys documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on Friday. Bleecker Street, the films US distributor, opens it in cinemas on [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, the Chief of the Air Staff, announced it at the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazils Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between 8bn and 10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to Sky News. Monzo has hired Morgan Stanley and Qatalyst [] This story continues at The Next Web

China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it tracked worked in China and 34% in the US. Three years earlier [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google wants to release Gemini 4 much earlier than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it out inside its Antigravity coding tool. Kavukcuoglu spoke on stage at The [] This story continues at The Next Web

On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference design to help keep AI agents within the boundaries set by their operators. Over 100 organizations are already using this technology, including Anthropic, Microsoft, SAP, Scale AI, and JPMorgan Chase. This launch comes after several incidents where AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

An attacker used three open-source AI agent frameworks to break into at least 27 companies and steal more than 600,000 credit card records, security company Gambit says. The victims include a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, a large private US industrial supplies distributor and a US online fashion retailer. Eyal Sela, Gambits [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027. They tentatively plan to call it the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, according to people familiar [] This story continues at The Next Web