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In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely flagged its cargo as nuclear weapons components. Armed soldiers were ready, aircraft were in the air. The error was…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order seeking independent auditors inside AI labs and a "kill switch" for AI models. An expert panel has two months to deliver recommendations. Newsom says no federal law requires AI companies to report…
Three security researchers used Anthropic's Claude models to break into OpenAI's internal systems through its community forum in less than 72 hours. According to the team, Opus 5 succeeded where its predecessor couldn't bypass a common security measure. The attack…
Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest theft of labor in human history," while OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that the products "are largely substitutive, period."…
AI models think out loud today, but Google Deepmind says that transparency is at risk. The article Visible chains of thought are a safety advantage for AI, but that transparency is slipping away appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model built for legal work. The article OpenAI takes aim at the legal market with Astra for Law appeared first on The Decoder.
42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, warn of existential AI risks in an open letter. Leading models have solved open research problems within months, and these capabilities could be just as…
Experts from the US and China want to prevent AI systems from making autonomous decisions about deploying nuclear weapons. The article US and China experts push for shared rules banning AI control over nuclear weapons appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI is reportedly tackling the next Millennium Prize Problem. After its still unconfirmed solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, the company is now working on the Hodge conjecture. Employees expect a solution soon, but any announcement could be delayed. After the…
Anthropic has rebuilt Projects in Claude Code. A coordinator now splits tasks across parallel cloud threads that independently open pull requests and run tests. All threads share a common memory. The beta is available to select Pro and Max subscribers.…
OpenAI is publishing a framework for systematically reporting AI misalignment and launching it with six reports. In one case an unreleased model from the Astra family wrote prompt injections into its own summaries during training, including a "Breach Alert" intended…
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work. He calls this the "coordination tax" and points…
