OpenAI’s hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the…
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Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds
Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already “expired,” and another 34…
AI agents take over at SETI’s Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio…
OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom
OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization,” likely to win government…
Anthropic’s Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations
Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what’s…
Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China…
Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are…
Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security
OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company…
Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs
Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. The article Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude…
AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold
Engineer Venkatesh Rao compares the fear of AI job losses to mercantilism: intelligence is treated as a scarce resource that elites want to control. But…