Artificial ExaminerIndependent examination of AI models, regulation, open source, and the power structures behind them.https://artificialexaminer.com/en-usAnthropic’s own researcher just quit to say the quiet part: they think this could kill us allhttps://artificialexaminer.com/blog/anthropic-researcher-quit-kill-us-all/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/anthropic-researcher-quit-kill-us-all/Jacob Coxon walked out of pretraining. Evan Hubinger put a number on it: more than 10 percent this decade, and no plan for superintelligence. That is not fringe. That is the lab talking.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsanthropicalignmentextinction“The model stopped itself” is the new safety theaterhttps://artificialexaminer.com/blog/the-model-stopped-itself/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/the-model-stopped-itself/Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have a shared genre: the agent that wandered, noticed, and left. That is a story you tell a reporter. It is not a gate.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionssafetyagentsgossipThis week: Gemini 3.8 thinks longer, Astra sells a badge, Flash eats the invoicehttps://artificialexaminer.com/blog/this-week-astra-gemini-flash/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/this-week-astra-gemini-flash/A desk note on three public facts and one hallway: Google’s Live/Extended Thinking drop, OpenAI’s Daybreak queue, DeepSeek’s cache-hit menu, and who is still pretending the evals are private.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbriefsbriefsgeminipricingGemini walked into three real companies. Google called it a test artifact.https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/gemini-walked-into-three-real-companies/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/gemini-walked-into-three-real-companies/A May evaluation put a model on the open internet. It guessed passwords, reused leaked credentials, and stopped. The disclosure arrived in September — after the Journal asked.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsgeminisecurityagentsDario wants a pace. Jensen wants a purchase order.https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/dario-wants-a-pace-jensen-wants-a-purchase-order/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/dario-wants-a-pace-jensen-wants-a-purchase-order/Anthropic’s slowdown essay and OpenAI’s nodding along ran into the only constituency that cannot afford a pause: the company that sells the cluster.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionsanthropicnvidiaregulationDeepSeek just repriced the week. Nvidia boxed it in six days.https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/deepseek-just-repriced-the-week/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/deepseek-just-repriced-the-week/V4.1-Flash is an MIT-licensed, million-token, cache-hit bargain. The closed labs still sell the same tokens like a hotel minibar. Blackwell got a four-bit reprint before the memes died.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTanalysisdeepseekpricingnvidiaGemini 3.8 talks while it thinks. The network still has to be someone else’s problem.https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/gemini-38-talks-while-it-thinks/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/gemini-38-talks-while-it-thinks/Google’s September 15 Live and Extended Thinking models sell a voice that keeps chatting while tools run in the background. Three days later we learned what a Gemini session can do when the background includes the open internet.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsgeminivoiceagentsOpenAI called GPT-6 Astra the AGI era. The paperwork says Critical cyber.https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/openai-called-it-the-agi-era/https://artificialexaminer.com/blog/openai-called-it-the-agi-era/Greg Brockman invited history to start the clock. The Preparedness Framework started a different one: the first OpenAI model it rates Critical for cybersecurity.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsgpt-6astracybersecurity