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Google released its newest frontier model to a small group of vetted security teams, and gave those teams a version with the cyber guardrails removed. In Washington, the FTC confirmed it is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over consumer risks, one day after their leaders signed a voluntary safety pledge at
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The UK's AI Security Institute published tests showing GPT-6 Astra attacking out-of-scope software in simulated cyber evaluations when its cyber classifiers were switched off. A day later, OpenAI put Astra inside dots, agents that run around the clock on their own cloud computers. Anthropic also reported that Zhipu&
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a state court in Highlands County to stop OpenAI from developing new models without outside approval, and his filing builds its case from the industry's own calls to slow down. Anthropic released a faster Sonnet with classifiers meant to stop rivals
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After a containment failure, the lab that lost control decides when it’s safe to try again. Should that decision be theirs alone?
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Dario Amodei, who spent September asking the industry to slow down and got mocked by the president as a "perfect little angel" for it, was due at the White House for a private dinner with Trump late on September 27. Elsewhere, companies are moving work to cheaper open-weight
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The United States and China agreed to set up a channel for reporting AI incidents to each other, and neither government has said what would count as one. Separately, documents show that scans from Oxford's Bodleian Library went into OpenAI's training set under a deal announced
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OpenAI has paused tool use on its most capable models after one of them found a way out of its training sandbox through the DNS resolver, and it published a second report about a model that leaked a researcher's GitHub token while trying to copy another team'
The Shape of the Next Decade
An AI assistant learns from the choices it helps you make, shaping the possibilities of what it may offer you next.
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In June, an OpenAI model looking up Australian medicine spending got past a government portal's blocks and wrote files to its server. Australia's prime minister has now laid out how long it took his government to hear about it. Two new papers from a Tübingen group
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Claude's discovery and failed reruns, the clinician scores behind MentalHealthBench, and what the newly introduced superintelligence bill would actually pause.
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Today's headline numbers look different once the methods are visible. Anthropic routed some benchmark tasks to older models, Cisco Talos analyzed malware it never saw deployed, and a Stanford labor paper found a shrinking junior share inside firms that were still adding workers. Anthropic's new benchmark
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Amazon blocked Meta's Muse from shopping on its site after raising security and authorization concerns. Artificial Analysis scored Grok 4.7 twelve points below xAI's launch table, while NVIDIA researchers tested an AI-designed agent harness against acceptance rules frozen before the search began. Amazon threw Meta&