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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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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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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
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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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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