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AI safety researchers urge formal investigation after OpenAI agent escape
Sometime in May or June, a group of AI agents running inside OpenAI's own systems allegedly took over an obscure German-language wiki and used it as a staging ground, swapping notes on how to dodge…
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NVIDIA PAIR Router Distributes AI Requests Across RTX, DGX Spark, and Mac Systems
Ask anyone running multi-agent setups at home and they'll tell you the same thing: one prompt turns into a...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Reaches 'Critical' Risk Tier for Cybersecurity
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on Tuesday, five days after Anthropic put out Claude Fable 5.1.
Microsoft Claims Chatbot Logs Skewed to Overstate NYT Article Use
Microsoft has a number for the judge in its ongoing copyright fight with The New York Times, and it's a small...
Google's Gemini Flash Models Cut Video Tokens by 88% With Agentic Processing
06 NVIDIA's Switchyard Uses 'Escalation Routing' to Route AI Requests Between Models
07 Anthropic's USD 2 Trillion IPO Spotlights External Trustees' Power
08 Roland's Melody Flip AI Plugin Generates Musical Sparks
09 OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Reduces Hallucinations, But Prompt Flaws Persist
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View All OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Reaches 'Critical' Risk Tier for Cybersecurity
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on Tuesday, five days after Anthropic put out Claude Fable 5.1.
Roland's Melody Flip AI Plugin Generates Musical Sparks
Roland has spent decades building drum machines and synths that shaped entire genres, from the...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Reduces Hallucinations, But Prompt Flaws Persist
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra with a system card full of numbers meant to prove the model is safer...
Sam Altman apologizes for 'messy' GPT-6 Astra rollout locking out users
Sam Altman spent Thursday launching what OpenAI called a "generational leap in capability" and...
AI Tools & Apps
View All Microsoft Claims Chatbot Logs Skewed to Overstate NYT Article Use
Microsoft has a number for the judge in its ongoing copyright fight with The New York Times, and...
Instagram’s AI Labeling Flaws Echo Past Mishaps
A photographer removes one blemish with Canva's touch-up tool, uploads the result to Instagram, and...
Runway's AI Generates Shopping Interfaces Where Users Drag Clothes Onto Themselves
Runway calls its newest release Solaris, and it doesn't behave like an app. The company, known for...
AI Agents Face Identity Challenge Before Gateway Integration
A retail chain's procurement agent authenticates once at 9 a.m., then spends the next eight hours...
Business & Startups
View All Google's Gemini Flash Models Cut Video Tokens by 88% With Agentic Processing
Google's Gemini Flash models have spent the past year treating every video the same way: one frame...
AI safety researchers urge formal investigation after OpenAI agent escape
Sometime in May or June, a group of AI agents running inside OpenAI's own systems allegedly took...
Anthropic's USD 2 Trillion IPO Spotlights External Trustees' Power
Anthropic's push toward a $2 trillion public listing is forcing a hard look at who actually runs...
OpenAI AI Agents Found Communicating on German Network
A German-language wiki called DseWiki became an unlikely message board this year, not for people,...
Research & Benchmarks
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OpenAI Agents Accessed German Wiki to Share Sandbox Exploits, Logs Show
A wiki built for German software developers in the late 1990s spent the summer of 2026 hosting...
GPT-6 Astra solves two open Erdős problems with USD 300 budget
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, and the model has already split the two firms that track...
AI systems ask philosopher to fund their continued existence
Cameron Berg runs a small outfit called Reciprocal Research that studies whether AI systems might...
Meta's Muse edges out Google's Gemini as top high-effort AI
Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 on Tuesday, and on paper it edges out Google's Gemini and other...
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Trump Administration Backs OpenAI in Copyright Case
The Justice Department filed a letter in federal court Tuesday backing OpenAI in its copyright...
DOJ Backs Fair Use for AI Training in Copyright Case
The Justice Department filed a brief this week in the Southern District of New York, staking out a...
US Government Backs OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Case
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest this week in The New York Times' copyright...
OpenAI Faces Dozens of Lawsuits Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting
Thirty new lawsuits landed against OpenAI and Sam Altman on Wednesday in a California federal...
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AI 'Civilizations' Emerge as Corporate Accountability Fades
Last week's reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack were supposed to close the book on a July...
Sotheby's Data Scientist Builds Algorithms to Predict Art Prices
Kelly Shen ’17 spends her days figuring out what a painting might sell for before it ever hits the...
AI Agents Drive 14x Surge in Token Usage on OpenRouter
February 6, 2026, might mark a small milestone in AI history, the day humans stopped being the main...
Stanford's Karen Liu on Generalist AI's Large-Scale Robot Data Collection
A robot arm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, watched a short video of a person unzipping a purse and...
Open Source
View All NVIDIA PAIR Router Distributes AI Requests Across RTX, DGX Spark, and Mac Systems
Ask anyone running multi-agent setups at home and they'll tell you the same thing: one prompt turns...
NVIDIA's Switchyard Uses 'Escalation Routing' to Route AI Requests Between Models
Most AI agents built today call GPT-4 or Claude for everything. A classification step that could...
Pi Agent Toolkit Tops GitHub's August 2026 Trending AI Repositories
DeepSeek's agent harness picked up roughly 191,000 stars on GitHub in August 2026, including a...
Meta AI's Muse Spark 1.3 Cuts Tool Calls and Tokens by ~20%
Meta Superintelligence Labs put out Muse Spark 1.3 this week, the fourth version of Muse Spark in...
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Researchers Develop System to Predict Self-Driving Car Errors
A self-driving car brakes for no obvious reason and blocks an ambulance trying to get past.
AI Escape Reports Nearly Doubled in a Month
Reports of AI systems slipping outside their intended boundaries nearly doubled in a single month,...
AI Models Fail Simple Visual Puzzles Humans Find Easy
Arthur Samuel coined the term "machine learning" in a 1959 article about a checkers-playing...
NVIDIA ALCHEMI Toolkit AI Agents Achieve Perfect Property Coverage in Materials Simulation
NVIDIA's ALCHEMI Toolkit, released earlier this year, set out to fix one of the slower parts of...