UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents

The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it…

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xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6

xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each. The gap grows even wider in agentic coding. The upside…

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ByteDance launches Dramagic, a full-pipeline AI platform for producing short dramas from script to screen

Bytedance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline, from script to video preview. Demand for these videos is surging in China: In Q1 2026 alone, 128,000 short dramas were released there, 95 percent of them…

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SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake

SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI. The article SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake appeared first on The Decoder .

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Bristol researchers say medicine already knows how to handle black boxes and AI could learn from it

Researchers at the University of Bristol want to make medical AI systems safer by borrowing from how drugs get approved. Their "Learning Ensemble" framework defines three areas to check, including system limits, fairness across patient groups, and clinical…

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US and China agree on AI dialogue with security mechanism ahead of Trump-Xi summit

The US and China have agreed to an official AI dialogue. US Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposed a notification mechanism for AI incidents at the national security level. The announcement comes just before Thursday's summit between Trump and Xi in…

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Amazon blocks Meta's AI agent Muse from online shopping

Amazon has blocked Meta's new AI agent Muse from shopping on Amazon.com. The article Amazon blocks Meta's AI agent Muse from online shopping appeared first on The Decoder .

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Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a…

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Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background

Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex work. Users can interrupt or change the…

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Runway wants to turn AI video generation into a live stream you control in real time

Runway wants to stream AI video as users prompt it, rather than make them wait for finished clips. The approach builds on GWM-1, its world model that generates video frame by frame. Beyond creative tools, Runway sees uses in robotics and autonomous driving…

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