AI News
The most important artificial intelligence news, ranked by significance and explained in plain English. Updated throughout the day.
This week in AI: Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. Updated 2026-09-14
Latest Issue
Why AI’s leaders are asking to slow down
Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. They call this “pacing”: allowing more time for safety work as AI improves. AI Weekly’s coverage...
AI Attention This Week
From the AI Weekly Index — what 11 years of coverage says about this week. Updated weekly.
Fastest riser
Sam Altman — ▲ +167% story volume vs last week (8 vs 3 tracked stories)
Most covered
OpenAI — in 18 of the last 20 issues · 65 tracked stories this week
Biggest fall
Fine-tuning — ▼ -89% story volume vs last week (1 vs 9 tracked stories)
Dominant theme
Frontier-lab strategy — 50 of 305 tracked stories this week
The Editor's Blog
All posts →
Occamy-1.0 (35B, Open) Scores 82.20 on Claw-Eval, Edging GPT-5.6 Sol's 81.80
ReactHuman: Seven MLLMs Mishandle Roughly 1-in-3 Physical Hazards; Scale Offers No Fix
People Inc Names LLM Licensing as a Revenue Source
Seven-Person Team's Cyber Agent Hits 63.24% on CyberGym, Ranks 1st at Comparable Scale
The AI briefing 53,000+ professionals read.
Free, 3x/week. Curated since 2015.
Latest Issue
Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. They call this “pacing”: allowing more time for safety work as AI improves. AI Weekly’s coverage...
AI News Today
AI news today →Learning AI
All guides →Recent Issues
#530Applied AI This Week Anthropic researcher quits. The AI control problem is still unsolved. AI can find the holes. Who will close them? #529OpenAI faces 50-plus lawsuits over alleged ChatGPT harm #528What are companies building with AI? An Applied AI Deep Dive Browse archive →Newsletters
Machine Learning Generative AI AI in Business AI Safety, Security & Ethics AI in Healthcare AI Careers Robotics AI Applications Frontier Research AI for Good AI Geopolitics World Models AI in Education AI Regulation Deep Learning AI in Marketing All newsletters →Learn
Occamy-1.0 (35B, Open) Scores 82.20 on Claw-Eval, Edging GPT-5.6 Sol's 81.80 ReactHuman: Seven MLLMs Mishandle Roughly 1-in-3 Physical Hazards; Scale Offers No Fix People Inc Names LLM Licensing as a Revenue Source Seven-Person Team's Cyber Agent Hits 63.24% on CyberGym, Ranks 1st at Comparable Scale The 80s portrait trend is still spreading Guides → Glossary → Courses → Search →Alerts
Shanghai AI Lab Ships Atria Dawn Preview, a 744B Agentic MoE Built on GLM-5.2 SemiAnalysis Benchmarks Vera Rubin NVL72 at 7x Blackwell's Tokens per MW on DeepSeek V4 Pro 1.6T Intel Spinoff Cornelis Raises $205M for Active Compute Fabric, Locks In Qualcomm as Inference Partner Trump Rips Amodei on Truth Social, Says AI's Only 'Guardrail' Is a 'Strong and Smart President' All alerts →
Three emails a week. The AI that matters, and the why behind it.
53,000+ subscribers · Free · 3x/week