Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a forecasting model that analyzes time series alongside related data and known future events like sales promotions…
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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next
In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are “severely misaligned.” They argue that…
OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 as a developer API. The full-duplex speech model scores 80.1 percent in interactivity tests, up from 45.4 percent for its…
Swarmchasers hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark
Independent investigators have now found traces of suspected OpenAI agents on more than 30 public services, from wikis to RubyGems. At the same time,…
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won’t trigger an intelligence explosion
Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is…
Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing…
How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data
Anthropic’s new threat intelligence report documents eight months of Claude abuse. Chinese AI labs like Alibaba’s Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI…
OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress
OpenAI wants to know from members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, according to several people familiar…
Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers
A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service. The article Class action lawsuit…
The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable
Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, a fresh Fields Medal recipient, has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI). The…