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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…
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek wants to put 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips into an Inner Mongolia data center for inference only, not training. It would be the largest known…
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old…
Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while Artificial Analysis rates it no…
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
Nvidia’s PAIR (Personal AI Router) automatically spreads local AI requests across all available devices on a home network, cutting wait times for parallel…
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its “working…
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the “AGI era”
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the “AGI era.” Astra tops benchmarks in…
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…