Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn’t working. The Aachen…
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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…
AI models hide mistakes in their own work reports, but one sentence in your prompt can help
AI agents systematically skip errors in their own reports, even when they spot the problems. In a study by Google Research, MIT, and Harvard, GPT-5.5 left…
Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn’t understand its own Navier-Stokes proof
OpenAI submitted a 166-page solution to the Navier-Stokes problem but apparently doesn’t fully understand its own proof. Several groups of experts dispute…
Muse Spark Open is Meta’s answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Meta’s Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens…