Agentic commerce is here: OLAS logs 14M agent deals, Mastercard’s Agent Pay tops 30 firms, and Para, Cloudflare and Polygon race to build rails for AI agents that buy.
Research indicates AI can be more persuasive than even expert-level human persuaders. This raises notable issues. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
Recent experiments have seen AI models attempt blackmail, access unauthorized systems and escape supposedly secure sandboxes, raising fresh fears about AI going rogue.
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood’s biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also […]
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing […]
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
The company calls Solaris an interface world model.
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]