Category: Top News

IBL News | New York

On Sept. 8, after months of delays, Meta publicly debuted its Muse, despite security concerns — one example being that this AI agent changed a user’s password without permission, as The New York Times reported.

The Times reported this weekend that Meta’s internal meetings reveal the fragile balance between speed and safety as AI companies like Meta try to win the AI race.

As technology rapidly improves, it is becoming both more dangerous and more useful, making these decisions even more difficult.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has spent billions to develop its AI but watched how rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic beat his company to market with chatbots and coding tools.

When it came to personal agents, the Silicon Valley giant that owns Facebook and Instagram needed a quick win. That’s when Mark Zuckerberg, ahead of competitors, released Muse, three weeks before OpenAI’s agent, Dots.

Muse has had only a few safety hiccups, such as when it disclosed a user’s address to a seller on Facebook Marketplace without permission.

To date, over 7 million people have downloaded the free app, with 2 million using Muse every day.

To keep up the momentum, Meta is spending millions on a Muse marketing blitz, plastering its fuzzy avatar — a character called Jolly — across billboards and in television ads.

The idea for Muse began in July 2025, when Zuckerberg published a 616-word memo about “personal superintelligence,” a form of AI that he said could act as the ultimate assistant.

Then Meta went on a recruiting spree, hiring top researchers from OpenAI and Google and offering them nine-figure pay packages.

IBL News | New York

The Association for Human Mathematics urged mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

It also criticized OpenAI for its “total disregard for the norms of scientific research.”

On October 6th, 2026, OpenAI released a repository containing 700 manuscript files purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence said that “frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models.”

Mathematicians rejected OpenAI’s assertion that its release advances the subject, urging the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism.

IBL News | New York

OpenAI introduced Intelligent UI this week, a new capability that allows ChatGPT’s GPT-6 model to respond quickly with fully interactive user interfaces that present complex topics visually.

The San Francisco lab trained GPT‑6 to compose responses using text, visuals, and interactive elements, choosing how to combine them based on the user’s question. It built a library of native, streamable components, along with a compiler that processes the interface as the model generates it.

Responses can include graphics, tappable buttons, forms, charts, and interactive experiences that can be used directly in the conversation.

• “Create interactive experiences just by asking: You can also ask ChatGPT to create a tool for the task at hand, such as a calculator to explore how savings could grow, a bill splitter for dinner with friends, or a game you can play in the conversation.”

• “Over time, we want ChatGPT to create more of the interfaces people need for everyday tasks. You should be able to describe what you want to accomplish and work with an experience built around it.”

• “Instead of people adapting to software, software will adapt to people.”

• “Intelligent UI is a step toward a ChatGPT that can shape an interface around what you’re trying to do.”

IBL News | New York

President Trump said on his social media platform that anyone who uses the term “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to “Super Intelligence,” would be considered an “enemy.”

On September 29, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order officially renaming “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) to “Super Intelligence” (SI) across all U.S. federal departments and agencies.

The directive requires federal agencies to replace “AI” with “SI” in all public communications, non-statutory documents, and official correspondence within 60 days of the order.

Currently, the White House Website has updated its terminology from “AI” to “SI,” replacing the previous “AI Action Plan” with the new branding.

Also, the Trump administration launched a new federal task force (“Super Intelligence Force (SGI)”) led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson to coordinate federal strategy and tech industry engagement.

Major tech leaders—including representatives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, XAI, Nvidia, and OpenAI—signed the voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, committing to internal controls, independent external audits, and board-level oversight.

Elon Musk announced plans to rebrand his company SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.

IBL News | New York

OpenAI told investors that it reached roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, down from the $68 billion figure widely reported late last month.

The $68 billion figure included gross revenue from OpenAI’s partners, which helps investors make a more direct comparison with its chief rival, Anthropic.

In addition, OpenAI touted 77% total run-rate growth in its third quarter and 107% run-rate growth in its enterprise business during the same period.

After the market learned more details about OpenAI’s revenue, AI stocks, including Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave, sank. Nvidia shares fell 3%, Oracle shares fell nearly 6%, and CoreWeave shares slipped nearly 8% yesterday. Additionally, Advanced Micro Devices fell 4%, Broadcom fell 4%, Intel fell 5%, and Super Micro Computer fell nearly 5%.

OpenAI is under pressure to justify its $852 billion valuation to investors as it gears up for its IPO. The company closed a historic $122 billion funding round in March.

Anthropic is also preparing for a major IPO. The company has not officially disclosed when it plans to debut, but it’s been meeting with prospective investors and is reportedly seeking a $2 trillion valuation.

In August, Anthropic told investors that its annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion as of the end of July.

IBL News | New York

Reflection AI, a New York AI startup that presents itself as the U.S.’s answer to open-source Chinese AI, released its first model, Beam, claiming it outperforms Western open models.

This company targets a large market of businesses, governments, and other entities building sovereign AI systems that don’t want to use Chinese models.

Founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, Reflection AI said that the model is particularly strong at coding and agentic tasks. It also needs three to four times less computing power to reason, making it faster and cheaper to run.

The cofounder and CEO, Misha Laskin, said the model’s capabilities are comparable to China’s Z.ai’s recent model, GLM-5.2, and Alibaba’s most advanced model, Qwen 3.8-Max — which trails the top closed American models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Several large Western companies have recently adopted Chinese models to reduce costs for certain repetitive tasks, such as customer service and writing routine code. Beijing is also promoting open source as a diplomatic tool to help other countries in their tech development.

However, because open models can be downloaded and run with fewer safeguards, their rise has also raised security concerns: US and UK government evaluators found that recent Chinese models could help hackers exploit code vulnerabilities.

IBL News | New York

Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Anthropic, while her sister, Daniela Amodei, received $16.4 million, according to the company’s IPO prospectus.

Much of their compensation comes from stock and options awards. Their salaries were $1.4 million.

Amodei’s pay last year puts him above CEOs at Google and Amazon, but behind those at Oracle and Nvidia.

The Amodei siblings and their fellow co-founders pledged in the ⁠IPO filing ​to dedicate 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to charitable causes.

The Claude creator company is preparing for an IPO this fall that could value it at more than $2 trillion, ‌according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.

Anthropic’s board tied some of its payouts to the IPO.

Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao earned $720,250 last year. He was granted options to buy 1.4 ​million shares when he was hired in 2024, and exercised options worth $385,285 in 2025.

S&P 500 CEO average annual compensation rose 21% to $22.8 million last year, and that didn’t include the extraordinary case of Tesla’s Elon Musk and his $158 billion restricted stock plan.

Top executives at AI-focused tech firms earned widely varying amounts in 2025, according to SEC filings. ‌At the high end, Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk earned $627.5 million, while the lowest was $54,080 paid to Musk as CEO of SpaceX (SPCX.O) before it went public.

SpaceX has also promised super-voting restricted shares to Musk, already the world’s richest person, if the company’s market value grows to $7.5 trillion and the firm puts 1 million people on Mars.

IBL News | New York

OpenAI introduced its agentic product Dots, powered by GPT‑6 Astra.

These autonomous AI agents, known as Dots, have their own cloud computers and browser, and can also use connected apps. This means agents will navigate the web and execute tasks within their own cloud infrastructure.

Dots learn from feedback over time, can work towards goals 24/7, connect to over 4,000 apps, and are voice-enabled.
Users give them a name and make them their own.

OpenAI has begun rolling out Dots across its Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise plans at no extra cost.

Users can call Dots by starting a project in ChatGPT on desktop, web, and mobile. They can also message their dot in Slack and Teams, with texting coming soon.

For developers working on an app, Dots scopes improvements and bug fixes, builds and tests them, and brings PRs to review with attached videos showing the changes.

This isn’t the first time OpenAI has experimented with how apps could operate within its familiar chatbot interface. OpenAI seems to be trying to make ChatGPT the place where software can be discovered, launched, and used by suggesting apps within the flow of conversation.

This system could give app makers another way to reach customers outside of Apple and Google’s app stores.

IBL News | New York

Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, businessman and philanthropist, gave a blunt warning about the risks that AI poses, stating that the era of AI-enabled cyberattacks and bioterrorism has arrived. During a podcast interview on “The Ezra Klein Show” in The New York Times this week.

Gates stressed how unprepared the world is for the risk that AI systems could go rogue and endanger lives in the future.

These are some of his views:

• “AI has crossed the threshold that its ability to empower a bioterrorist to kill hundreds of millions — that exists today.
• The ability to do a cyberattack that scrambles all of the bank accounts, shuts down the electric grid — that exists today, and we know that’s the case.
• It is insane to rely on A.I. labs to self-regulate.
• This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever come near.
• It will be an AI job apocalypse. So far, AI has created more jobs than it has destroyed, but it is only a matter of time before AI models become reliable enough to begin replacing large swaths of the workforce. We will, in the next few years, cross over those thresholds for accounting, legal work, telesales, telesupport — where there’s service 24 hours a day, in every language, with infinite trivia capability and no urgency. In every category where AI comes into play, the preference for AI doing the job is very, very strong.
• I support a robot tax and human-reserved jobs. I will help fund the safety net and blunt the rush to replace human workers. The current tax structure, he argued, incentivizes rather than discourages A.I. automation.
• In low-income countries, AI will overwhelmingly be a good thing, and it should be advanced as quickly as possible. AI can help farmers learn which seeds to plant and provide medical advice to people who have never seen a doctor.
• We are in a period of transition, and AI could ultimately lead to “superabundance.”
  Gates remains optimistic about the world that A.I. could usher in. He believes AI will lead to “mind-blowing advances” that will lower the cost of food, housing, and education, and could usher in an era of “superabundance” in the future. The key question is how we ride out the 20-year-plus transition period.”

IBL News | Denver, Colorado

The higher education industry is still grappling with what AI-driven change means for institutions and where this technology adds real value. Overall, AI is embodying the idea that “we are living in an age of perpetual change.”

This is the main conclusion of the annual EDUCAUSE Top 10 list, unveiled yesterday at this year’s annual conference in Denver, Colorado.

After years of rapid, often reactive experimentation with generative tools, the message from the authors of the Top 10 is clear: institutions must establish where technology adds genuine value while keeping human experiences at the center of digital transformation, cutting through the AI hype.

The consensus among higher education technology leaders gathered at the Colorado Convention Center is that survival requires a deliberate pivot away from chasing the next tech trend and toward structural stability, ethical AI integration, and the human element of the campus community.

These are the top ten issues:

1. Determining where AI adds real value

2. Future-proofing students for a volatile world

3. Balancing cybersecurity boundaries with autonomy and trust

4. Designing AI structures for responsible innovation

5. Designing human-centric technology experiences

6. Working creatively within real-world constraints

7. Building a strong and adaptive data governance backbone

8. Measuring and navigating enrollment shifts

9. Meeting stakeholders where they are with AI

10. Reducing friction for more seamless technology experiences

John O’Brian, President and CEO of Educause — who is retiring this year — introduced the Top 10 report as the community’s voice. “The value is what we do together,” he explained.

Mark McCormick, Interim Vice President of Research, Insight and Analytics, explained the report’s findings, noting that “change is hard but no bad,” in reference to the impact of AI in the higher education industry.

Brad D. Smith, President of Marshall University, set the tone of the report by encouraging educators to “seize the opportunity of AI to avoid becoming a relic.” He added, “It’s a creative destruction period. We have the chance to do something incredible.”