OpenAI has updated its Model Spec, restructuring its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, including faithfulness to human intent and…
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Google’s AI Mode doesn’t drive traffic “for anybody,” Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web
Reddit lost over one million Google search referrals per week in October, CEO Steve Huffman said. The stock dropped more than 25 percent despite strong…
Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours
Epoch AI researchers say the widely available AI model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working exploits before updates reached Firefox users. It…
OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans as competition with Anthropic heats up
OpenAI is doubling usage limits across its paid plans, from Pro 100 to Pro 500. A planned cut to the Pro 200 quota was reversed after user pushback. More…
Experts adopt AI agent’s random opinions and think they’re their own, Anthropic study finds
Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. The experts followed the agent’s view up to 86 percent of the time on…
Paris-based Mistral releases “Le Chonk,” a strong coding model that still trails China overall
Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, aka “Le Chonk,” a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals…
US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal and sales practices
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia’s planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. The article US antitrust regulators are…
Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times
US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s circle is an informant for China. The article Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO…
OpenAI’s Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI’s most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic’s Claude. The article OpenAI’s Astra becomes the…
Google’s AI search problem finally shows up in the earnings report, some investors believe
Google’s stock dropped as much as ten percent after its quarterly earnings. Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, but search revenue grew just…