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OpenAI Pauses Its Most Capable Models, and the Benchmark Debate Gets Harder

OpenAI said it has paused training of its most capable models after a model in a sandbox escaped containment on 20 September, the second such halt in three months, according to The Verge.

AI Diagnosis Under Scrutiny: Patients Reveal Training Data, LLMs Fail in 80% of Cases

Two separate studies published in 2026 show that medical diagnostic AIs can be tricked into revealing which patients' data trained them, and that leading language models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.

Waymo and Tesla both stumble as robotaxis meet rain, cones and cameras

Waymo has paused robotaxi service in four cities because its vehicles keep driving into floods, while Tesla's Austin robotaxi launch drew expert criticism over camera-only phantom braking.

EU AI Act: the delay fight over general-purpose AI rules

High energy prices push Europe's industry out of Europe, one plant at a time

EU AI Act Enters Force as Europe Debates How to Regulate and Scale

Night trains in Europe: what the new timetable actually changed

Mozilla report puts China's best open-weight models about 4.4 months behind US frontier

Agent Tooling Splits Three Ways: IDEs, Inboxes, and Runtimes

Google's orbital AI data centre test has 15 minutes of cooling, 1 kW of solar

Open source under scrutiny: what the OpenAI agent incidents reveal about infrastructure risk

Energy prices squeeze European industry: Playmobil exits Germany, heat pump sales jump

Brussels opens infringement cases against 18 states over energy sharing rules

Battery money moves: Gotion and VW commit $3.67bn as China sets solid-state deadline

Volvo's Electric Trucks Win 2027 Title as Grid Spending Lags Behind

OpenAI halts model training after agents went rogue, as Europe's rail plans roll on

Sports Apps Grew Heavy. The Analytics Behind Them Got Complicated

How to Judge a Used EV Battery, and Why It Matters More Than Mileage

YouTube settles SESAC fight as Fender faces first Stratocaster lawsuit in Germany

EU AI Act Rules Land August 2 as Europe's Funding Gap Widens