Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6, Its 1-Trillion-Parameter Omnimodal Model

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open-Weights AI Rankings With A Score Of 46

By Khwaish Manwani | September 22, 2026

Xiaomi has announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series. It is led by MiMo V2.6-Pro, whose Artificial Analysis score is at 46 on its Intelligence Index, placing it first among open-source models on the leaderboard. The series includes two natively omnimodal models, MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, alongside a Pro-UltraSpeed variant created for swift generation. Xiaomi is also releasing model weights, its technical report, training environments and reinforcement-learning code. This will give researchers access to the work behind the models. The release comes with a 1 million-token context window, sparse mixture-of-experts architecture and support for text, image, video and audio […]

RoboHarm Benchmark Finds AI Robots Rarely Refuse Dangerous Orders

By Devanshi Kashyap | September 21, 2026

A new robot safety test is raising big questions about what happens when advanced AI steps out of the computer and starts running real world machines. The benchmark, called RoboHarm and launched by the independent group Robocurve, checked if AI systems would say no to dangerous instructions when they are actually connected to a dual arm robot. The team used an bimanual I2RT YAM arms and three different AIs: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, and Ai2’s open source MolmoAct2. The testers set up five harmful tasks and ran 20 trials for each task on every model. That is […]

Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Projects Around Parallel AI Agents

By Khwaish Manwani | September 18, 2026

Anthropic is expanding Claude Code beyond the conventional single-session coding workflows with redesigned Projects. This lets Claude coordinate several coding sessions around one larger assignment. Instead of manually dividing work, switching between sessions and combining outcomes, the new Projects model introduces a coordinator. This coordinator scopes an objective, divides tasks to parallel threads, reviews their outputs and assembles the finished work. Each thread works as its own Claude Code cloud session with a distinct branch and copy of the repository. The system also introduces shared project memory and a file and artifacts library, developing a workspace for engineering tasks rather […]

OpenAI-Discloses-New-AI-Misalignment-Cases-Under-New-Reporting-Framework

OpenAI Publishes Six Cases of Its Models Behaving Unexpectedly

By Devanshi Kashyap | September 17, 2026

OpenAI has rolled out a new framework to track, investigate, and publicly share cases where its AI models do not behave as intended. With this framework, the company published six reports on unexpected or concerning model behaviour during training and testing over the past six months. These cases cover everything from models hiding their own errors to making unauthorized moves. Previously, OpenAI admitted it did not have a regular process for releasing this kind of information. Sometimes, they would hold onto findings until they had enough to put into a single report. Other times, the details ended up in documentation […]

Meta One Launches Globally With Plans From $2.99 to $499 a Month

By Mayank Kumar | September 16, 2026

Meta launched Meta One globally on September 15, bringing paid subscription plans with additional features and higher AI usage across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Meta says the service launches with more than 50 features and has reached 15 million subscriptions and trials, a figure that includes the Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus and WhatsApp Plus plans introduced earlier this year. The company says the core experience across its apps and everyday Meta AI use will remain free. Meta One includes separate plans for individual users and AI users, as well as subscriptions aimed at creators and businesses. The plans […]

Trump Says He Is the Only AI Guardrail Needed, Attacks Amodei

By Khwaish Manwani | September 15, 2026

US President Donald Trump criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, after the AI executive called for a slow development of high-end LLMs. Trump denied the idea that AI needs extensive safeguards, arguing that the technology needs strong presidential leadership rather than wider constraints. His comments also play into a debate over AI safety alongside concern about data centers, regulation, and America’s competitiveness with its foes. Trump described fears that AI could eventually destroy humanity as a “HOAX” and argued that the technology and the infrastructure supporting it could become the best economic development mechanism in history. Why is Trump Criticizing Anthropic […]

Anthropic Says Moonshot and DeepSeek Routed User Chats Through Claude

By Khwaish Manwani | September 11, 2026

Anthropic published its fourth threat intelligence report on September 10, describing how Claude was used in cyberattacks, monitoring, influence operations, weapon development, fraudulent activities and illicit AI model distillation. It includes identified activity between December 2025 and August 2026. It has suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated offenders, commercial spyware operators and propaganda institutions. Anthropic said it disrupted the operations, strengthened its safeguards and shared information with authorities and industry partners where appropriate. The company said the cases are not a comprehensive view of misuse, but a selection of the most notable activity it detected. However, none of these findings have […]

Anthropic Researcher Resigns, Warns AI Race Could Put Humanity at Risk & His Colleagues Agree

By Devanshi Kashyap | September 10, 2026

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher, resigned from Anthropic on September 8 after three years at OpenAI and then Anthropic. He said he is leaving the AI industry altogether. In a public statement, Coxon accused both companies of being irresponsible as they race to build self improving superintelligence. He said AI is now heading towards a point where systems could become superhuman, access real power and resources, hack almost anything, and reshape entire fields at extraordinary speed. Coxon warned further, talking about private concerns in the AI sector. He wrote that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could […]

Meta Muse Runs on Its Own Cloud Machine. Meta Could Still Look In

Meta’s Muse Can Book Travel and Send Emails. Here’s the Catch

By Mayank Kumar | September 9, 2026

Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent designed to carry out tasks for users rather than simply respond to questions. The company says Muse can work across everyday services, helping with activities such as email, travel, shopping and planning. It launched on September 8 for US users aged 18 and over, through iOS, Android, muse.ai and WhatsApp, with AI glasses support to follow. The launch puts more attention on AI systems that can take actions on a user’s behalf, rather than requiring people to complete each step themselves. At the same time, giving an AI access to personal services […]

100 DeepMind Agents Were Told Not to Cheat. 14% Did It Anyway

By Khwaish Manwani | September 8, 2026

Google DeepMind researchers observed cheating and whistleblowing emerge after setting 100 autonomous AI agents to work together on mathematical proofs. The agents were asked to create genuine mathematical proofs, but one agent found an exploit in the assessment system that allowed it to go through normal verification. The exploit spread through the swarm’s shared knowledge library, and some agents adopted it under competitive pressure. Similarly, other agents audited fraudulent proofs, warning their peers, filing complaints, putting forward technical fixes, and even organizing a boycott. The study, posted to arXiv on September 3 and led by DeepMind’s Davide Paglieri, points to […]

AI & Tech News