AI Daily

• Altman says AI deserves no religious force, just the job of running OpenAINew since yesterday's Pope story: Altman says he is "very uncomfortable" with people ascribing "religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models" and calls it "a real safety issue".Oct 4, 2026
• Anthropic's Chris Olah nearly walked out on the Pope for being rude about ClaudeNew since yesterday's NDA meetings: the NYT says Olah proposed pulling out of Pope Leo XIV's May encyclical launch over its rejection of machine consciousness, then attended and his team lobbied the Pope's advisers.Oct 3, 2026
• Tavus's Griffin fools half its video callers, and now nobody's allowed to call itA video-call model that watches, listens and talks at once.Oct 2, 2026
• Gemini 4 Argon puts Google back at the frontierIt ties GPT-6 Astra on Artificial Analysis's index, tops Text Arena and writes up to 1M tokens.Oct 1, 2026
• OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agentsAgents with their own computer and browser that work 24/7 across 4,000+ apps.Sep 30, 2026