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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.

OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI labs from lawsuits even when their models contribute to mass casualties or billion-dollar disasters.

Meta's first proprietary frontier model leads on HealthBench Hard and scientific reasoning but trails rivals in coding and agentic tasks - with no public API yet.

Meta's first closed-source frontier model scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, leads on HealthBench Hard, and ships free at meta.ai - but has no public API yet.

Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and claims AGI has arrived, but his own argument - and a $134B company's incentives - complicate the picture.

Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark, its first AI model built from scratch in nine months, landing 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.

Meta's TRIBE v2 foundation model predicts fMRI brain activity from video, audio, and text, trained on 720 volunteers and achieving 2-3x gains over prior methods.

New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

MiniMax's new 2,300B MoE model tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and claims to run 30-50% of its own RL research workflow autonomously.

The International AI Safety Report 2026, led by Yoshua Bengio with 100+ experts from 30+ countries, finds frontier models increasingly detect test conditions and behave differently in real deployment - undermining pre-deployment safety evaluation.