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Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours
Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully…
Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn’t working. The Aachen…
Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals
Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts…
AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it
A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the…
AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP’s office
Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit…
An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet
OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model…
Anthropics’ Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes
Anthropic’s AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST’s standard curves for digital signatures were…
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its…