The Future of Life Institute has released its Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, an independent scorecard grading nine major AI developers on safety and governance practices. Anthropic finished first for the second consecutive edition of the report, leading five of six evaluated domains. Its overall grade was a C+ the highest score any company achieved,…
Every major AI company now wants its agents talking to your tools, your data, and each other. What’s unusual is that the plumbing making that possible isn’t a competitive battleground the way most foundational tech infrastructure has been it’s converging into a shared, jointly governed standards stack faster than almost any comparable technology shift in…
Generative AI is set to touch the working lives of nearly 80 million people across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, according to a new International Labour Organization study released this week, but the report’s central finding cuts against the more alarmist predictions that have circulated around AI and employment. According to ILO estimates for…
Defense planners across major militaries are rethinking what a soldier’s job actually looks like. For most of the past century, technology sped up how quickly a human could act better rifles, faster jets, more precise artillery. Artificial intelligence changes the more basic question of who, or what, does the acting in the first place. AI…