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Curated stories and useful context from across the AI ecosystem.

AI News
Oct 04, 2026 13

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

AI News
Oct 04, 2026 19

Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

AI News
Oct 04, 2026 14

NJ’s lieutenant governor told PBS, AI says he didn’t commit sexual harassment

New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harass...

AI News
Oct 04, 2026 23

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude...

AI News
Oct 04, 2026 23

Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

Research
Oct 03, 2026 28

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

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AI News
Oct 03, 2026 33

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

AI News
Oct 03, 2026 26

Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Op...

AI News
Oct 03, 2026 26

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resi...

AI News
Oct 03, 2026 41

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations

Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled fr...

AI News
Oct 03, 2026 28

An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his pos...

AI News
Oct 03, 2026 26

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages 

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for famil...