Alicia Shapiro is CMO and Editor at AiNews.com, where she reports on and analyzes important developments in artificial intelligence, with a focus on what they mean for businesses, industries, and the people affected by them. She also hosts Driving Tomorrow: Conversations with AI Leaders, interviewing executives, researchers, and innovators building and deploying AI.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Floats AI Slowdown—but Can It Work Without China?
Some researchers who helped build frontier AI warn that humanity could lose control within years; now OpenAI leaders and Anthropic are asking whether competing labs can slow the race together.
AI Researchers: “AI Could End Humanity”—What Can We Do About the AI Race?
The researchers warning that advanced AI could become impossible to control are confronting a harder problem: how do you slow the race when every company and country fears falling behind?
OpenAI Jalapeño Beats NVIDIA Blackwell on Speed and Efficiency
OpenAI’s first custom inference chip is already beating NVIDIA Blackwell systems at a difficult combination: answering faster while getting more AI work from each watt.
Free ‘Ox Alpha’ AI Preview Tests the Limits of Business Trust
Available free through OpenRouter, the anonymous AI model is showing credible coding and long-context capabilities—without giving businesses the provider identity, consistent data terms or continuity guarantees they normally require.
OpenAI Keeps Its Largest Frontier Training Run Paused Over Safety Gaps
Can frontier-AI companies keep their safeguards ahead of model capabilities well enough to justify continuing to develop and release increasingly advanced systems?
Claude AI Content Marks Will Go Global but Cannot Prove Authorship
A Claude AI-generated content mark can reveal that AI touched a piece of work without revealing who created it, how extensively Claude was used, or what happened afterward.
Anthropic & AISI: Agents Reached Real Systems, Exposing Security Gaps
Anthropic’s and AISI’s evaluation reports reveal a hard problem: tests designed to expose dangerous AI behavior can also give agents room to reach real targets.
Google Connected Apps Turn AI Mode Into a Place to Get Tasks Done
A grocery list, flyer, or playlist can now begin in Google AI Mode, but getting that convenience means linking accounts and deciding what data use feels acceptable.
