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Microsoft is now telling enterprise customers not to trust the AI agents they have deployed, including agents built on models from companies Microsoft has invested in. Hidden text on WhatsApp's help pages told its support chatbot not to recommend privacy regulators, and Inception released a diffusion language model
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Anthropic proposes a public benefit fund backed by company shares. A Vals AI simulation examines how personal assistants pursue an unavailable refund.
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Exploring where decision models fit best in a workflow
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DeepSeek released an open-weight model that its own benchmarks put ahead of larger rivals at a fraction of their cost per coding task. OpenAI published four more cases of its agents going where they were not meant to go, and OpenCode disclosed a breach that may have exposed the API
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The labs behind the summer's agent escapes now face information requests under the EU's AI Act. Beijing, meanwhile, drafted export controls on the models and agents themselves, and Meta rewrote its business terms in a way that publishers read as permission to train on their websites.
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Anthropic has let six outside evaluators work inside the company with the right to publish what they find, Bank of America's CEO put a headcount on patching the flaws new AI models are turning up, and Amazon wants its Bee recorder to help you shop. Anthropic gives six
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Google's most capable model is now available to paying developers, two Nature papers show AI design tools producing enzymes that cut chosen proteins, and Figma wants teams to write down the rules their design agents should follow. Gemini 4 Argon is now open to paying developers and subscribers,
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Around 400 scientists asked AI labs to start with cyber-capable models disconnected from the internet. British MPs heard frontier labs split over whether safety rules should be binding, and Character.AI filed for bankruptcy with Disney proposing to buy some of what is left. Hinton, Bengio and about 400 other
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The back-and-forth behind the AI Agent Field Guide
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Meta released what it calls its most capable models yet, with features intended to keep them working through longer tasks. Britain says its AI Security Institute has kept access to test the latest models before release, and Microsoft plans to make its own chips the main system for running AI
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Palantir's chief technology officer went on national television on October 11 to say Bloomberg had the Minab school strike wrong and that the likely cause was human error. Vals AI tested agent teams on 50 coding projects and found higher costs with just one statistically significant gain, while
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Satya Nadella wants an authorized person to be able to stop any AI model in the middle of a task, and on October 10 he wrote that models should be treated as compromised from the start. A day earlier, Microsoft had released a small model that scores fixed answers instead