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Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right…
Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the…
In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from British local governments.…
In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are "severely misaligned." They argue that mass-producing solved problems with AI undermines the discipline's true goal: understanding. The mathematicians see this as…
Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up…
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews before any further training or…
Anthropic's new threat intelligence report documents eight months of Claude abuse. Chinese AI labs like Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI relayed requests en masse or extracted training data, with Qwen alone accounting for more than 151 million exchanges.…
OpenAI wants to know from members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, according to several people familiar with the matter. The article OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress appeared first…
A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service. The article Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers appeared first on The Decoder.
Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, a fresh Fields Medal recipient, has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI). The article The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable…
Authors and publishers fight over how to split Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, the largest copyright deal in US history. The article Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement descends into chaos as authors and publishers fight over who gets paid appeared first…
OpenAI is releasing the Agents API as a public beta. It lets developers build cloud agents that run autonomously for hours, execute code, and hand off tasks to sub-agents. There are no extra fees beyond token usage. Cloudflare, Vercel, and…
