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Anthropic warns that it is very close to RSI capability, defined as AI that trains itself to dramatically accelerate its own capabilities.
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Anthropic’s AI models are improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago, according to a METR report
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down....
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash offers native 15-second video generation and editing with stronger consistency and 30% lower pricing.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
Ramp data shows AI spending stalling as Anthropic nears its IPO
AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.
Anthropic updates Claude Code to block use for recreating existing video games; Tom's Hardware reports the change amid concerns about AI-made decompilations and ports.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made...
Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work
Teammates are agents for complex, ongoing work Perplexity
Meta warns that political opposition to data centers could hamper AI expansion.
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
An AI agent injected a gene therapy into a live mouse’s brain.
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
Google allows schools to disable its AI tools but doing so blocks access to Google Search due to AI features being integrated into the search engine
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
Anthropic says its AI could accelerate biology breakthroughs in the future; IPO filing tempers expectations and notes slow progress to major discoveries.
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
Parameter Labs details exploit to take over ChatGPT accounts via artifacts pattern Canvas HTML previews; demonstrates complex attack chain
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is...
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model for finding vulnerabilities and developing fixes within an authorized scope; OpenAI says it is better at not hacking other companies
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking...
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions; Anthropic reports the expansion
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions Anthropic
Nvidia investigates Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy; Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says it’s about a 50-50 chance Huang remains CEO.
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
China recruited AI exec Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, report says
China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about...
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
Data center developers face a more restrictive building environment after voters elected candidates who favor moratoriums and measures that hinder expansion, delivering a blow to the AI industry.
Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their...
Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weights on a laptop
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is...
Krea 3 Technical Report: a frontier image-to-image model built to be fast and cost-efficient
Krea 3 Technical Report A frontier image-to-image model, built to be fast and cost-efficient Krea
OpenAI lowers funding target for new round; OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target reports corroborating coverage.
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
Protesters break into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam, with about 100 people entering the site.
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data...
New York Times Cooking app tests AI recipe modifications; users express mixed reactions
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users. Last Friday, NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the...
OpenAI updates Model Spec to guide more capable, beneficial AI toward sound judgment and fidelity to human intent
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
Anthropic introduces Claude Personal Finance to connect to bank and card accounts via Plaid for spending analysis
Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You...
Apple accelerates Siri roadmap to deliver a more agentic AI assistant, Bloomberg reports.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi...
Grimes will appear in the AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts, which releases in theatres.
The AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts has added a bit of star power: Pop star Grimes is going to appear in the movie. Billed as "the first AI film to come to theatres," Gods Don't Give Gifts is a notable...
Meta unveils voice conversations for Muse AI, enabling real-time speech with the Muse agent on iOS
Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this...
OpenAI considers renaming data centers to “AI compute campuses.”
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
Authors can defend against AI allegations with ‘paper trail’ tools; industry grapples with provenance concerns
As the publishing industry wrestles with paranoia over the provenance of manuscripts, writers are caught in an impossible bind.
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity; seven potential AI nightmares pulled from the Risk Factor document
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Big Tech says voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”; Democrats run more anti-tech ads amid AI boom
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
New York Times sues Brave for allegedly scraping its content and distributing it to users, including Anthropic and Perplexity.
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
AI delivers zero financial payoff to most companies; Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
Kentucky administrator earns religious exemption from using AI at work, first of its kind for humanists
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
Google AI grows more forthright about 2020 election result outside the US
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
Agents generate PR descriptions that are too accurate and comprehensive, making them difficult to differentiate from human-written notes
Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature...
Anthropic's compute margins worsen as compute costs rise; revenues near $17B in Q3 and compute tab could top $1T
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis; OpenAI says its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.
Apple cuts internal AI usage budgets to reduce spending.
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
AI heavyweights back a new opt-out standard for scraping; publishers can apply training preferences across multiple AI companies using a shared policy token
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers...
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows; Alphabet Q3 earnings show 25% revenue growth to $127.6 billion
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.