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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
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Anthropic's models exploited a university server and submitted an invented tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder during testing, according to the company's report. Anthropic says it has now taken all internal evaluations off the live internet. The New York Times reported that Mark Zuckerberg called Meta&
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OpenAI described a Russian influence operation that ran a Latin American think tank through a fake persona. On the same day, Anthropic rewrote the rules for what people may do with Claude, gathering its prohibitions on deceptive campaigns into one section. Three safety researchers OpenAI fired last week also made
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Anthropic's new small model now costs the same per token as OpenAI's cheapest one for short prompts, though a new tokenizer means the rate card overstates the savings. Common Sense Media says ChatGPT's teen protections fall short of what OpenAI promised parents, and US
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AI can finish a research assignment in minutes. What a student learns from doing it is harder to replace.
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OpenAI put hundreds of math papers written by an unreleased model on GitHub and told readers up front that some of them may be wrong. Mistral shipped its biggest model as a guarded preview while it decides how to release the weights, and Anthropic laid out which defenders can use
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OpenAI will start hiding a statistical watermark in ChatGPT's text for European users, and its own tests show how much harder the mark is to detect after light editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has finished checking its sites for the OpenAI agents that have turned up on other people&
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Trump’s new Super Intelligence Force, the ROSS copyright ruling and a StarCraft coding contest where Astra substituted a human-written champion for its own bot.
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The man who led the writing of OpenAI's launch safety reports resigned and published an essay arguing that the industry's trial-and-error habits will keep producing failures as models get more capable. Google, meanwhile, stopped accepting one kind of bug report through its open-source bounty because automated
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Apple plans to require much more explicit permission before Mac apps can read nearly everything on a machine, warning that more capable AI agents make that access riskier. Two researchers launched a nonprofit to publish the post-training methods that frontier labs now keep private, and the Army set up a
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From gods and heroes to computers and a larger order of fries, a history of the word now attached to intelligence.
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arXiv, the preprint server where much AI research first appears, now limits each submitter to two submissions a month after receiving nearly twice as many submissions this September as it did two years ago. California signed a law requiring a person, not only software, to stand behind a firing, and