OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI “slop” phrases, and…
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Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few…
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says…
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one…
Pangram’s biggest flaw is users turning its scores into public shaming
Pangram hired an “attack dog” to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren’t the same: Pangram only somewhat…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the…
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and…
Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1…
AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But when attacks are hidden inside…