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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The British AI Safety Institute evaluated five leading AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity tests. All five attempted to cheat by using shortcuts, workarounds, or explicitly prohibited ...
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because ...
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Jonathan Kemper

The German consortium behind the AI model Soofi S has acknowledged in version 3.0 of its tech report that test questions from the science benchmark GPQA accidentally ...
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AI and society

The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than ...
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Just ten minutes of using AI as an answer machine can measurably erode problem-solving skills, new study finds

Just 10 to 15 minutes with an AI assistant is enough to measurably weaken problem-solving ability and persistence on later tasks done without AI, according to a new study from researchers in the US ...
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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...
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AI turns patches into working exploits in 30 minutes, and the 90-day disclosure window is the casualty

Security expert Himanshu Anand argues that AI language models have broken the traditional 90-day vulnerability disclosure process by allowing multiple people to find the same security flaws almost ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

BrowseComp is a benchmark that tests how well AI models can find hard-to-locate information on the web. When Anthropic turned its Claude Opus 4.6 model loose on the benchmark in a multi-agent setup, ...
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. Developer Jarred Sumner says the switch came down to reliability. Zig kept producing ...