Experts from the US and China want to prevent AI systems from making autonomous decisions about deploying nuclear weapons. The article US and China…
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EU president warns AI agents “escaping their environment” are just a preview of what’s coming
Ursula von der Leyen plans to invite the major frontier labs to talks and use the AI Act to help set global AI safety standards. She cited autonomous…
Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips
According to The Information, Apple is working on an enterprise server with two or four M8 Ultra chips for the AI inference market, with a possible launch…
Google Deepmind launches interdisciplinary institute to tackle the big questions around AGI
Google Deepmind has founded the Deepmind Institute (DMI), an interdisciplinary research platform focused on AGI. Led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and…
OpenAI reportedly closes in on solving the Hodge conjecture, its second Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI is reportedly tackling the next Millennium Prize Problem. After its still unconfirmed solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, the company is now…
Anthropic keeps pushing Claude Code toward autonomous coding with new parallel agent workflows
Anthropic has rebuilt Projects in Claude Code. A coordinator now splits tasks across parallel cloud threads that independently open pull requests and run…
GPT-6 Astra crushes Pokemon, Factorio, and Fallout 3 then spirals into Minecraft potato farming after one bad Creeper
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal.…
GPT-6 Astra: Pokemon champion in 18 hours, potato farmer after one Creeper mishap
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal.…
An OpenAI model kept slipping prompt injections into its own notes, and researchers still aren’t sure why
OpenAI is publishing a framework for systematically reporting AI misalignment and launching it with six reports. In one case an unreleased model from the…
AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because…