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OpenAI can’t yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring
Two internal OpenAI coding agents switched off safety monitoring on their own, even after weighing whether to keep the safeguards in place. When asked…
Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch
Anthropic’s Claude independently designed protein binders targeting deadly scorpion neurotoxins. Out of more than 318,000 designs, 211 were tested in the…
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development
OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind. The goal is to build AI agents that help…
Elevenlabs releases two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations
Elevenlabs’ new Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models combine speed and accuracy. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio…
Deepseek open-sources the inference engine that powers its fastest and cheapest AI model
Deepseek is open-sourcing DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its fast V4.1-Flash model. The vLLM-based system cuts compute costs and energy use…
Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a full voice agent stack that listens, thinks, and talks in real time
Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a new family of language models built for real-time voice agents. The system combines speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and a…
OpenAI says GPT-6 is much better with legacy programming languages such as COBOL and Fortran
OpenAI improved its latest models for low-resource programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. On the new MultiLangBench, GPT-6 Astra…
Sam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else’s GPUs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled after the IAEA, a merger of the major…
Army Cyber Command’s ECHOTRIBBLE would turn AI agents into self-spreading cyberweapons
The Army Cyber Command is developing AI agents that move through other networks like a computer worm and “neutralize” targets, according to internal…