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OpenAI's leaked memo says new "Spud" model will make all its products "significantly better"

An internal memo from OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser outlines the company's Q2 strategic direction. The document covers five core priorities for the enterprise business and takes ...
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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - ...
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Claude Code routines let AI fix bugs and review code on autopilot

Anthropic has introduced "routines" for Claude Code - automated processes that can independently fix bugs, review pull requests, or respond to events without needing a user's local machine. Routines ...
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Claude Mythos is a wake-up call for Europe's AI safety apparatus

Anthropic is restricting access to Claude Mythos, an AI model it says can find security vulnerabilities better than most humans. European authorities have almost no visibility into the system, while ...
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Claude Mythos can autonomously compromise weakly defended enterprise networks end-to-end

The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has evaluated Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview for its cyber-attack capabilities, finding that the model achieved a 73 percent success rate in expert-level ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A study by Google Research and the Rochester Institute of Technology finds that the common practice of using just three to five human evaluators per test example is insufficient for reliable AI ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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"The winner takes it all!" - The US-China AI race explained

In the race for AI supremacy, there are two possible winners and the EU. An overview and assessment of the status quo. The global race to develop the best AI systems is in full swing. For years, the ...
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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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Microsoft brings Anthropic's Claude Cowork into Copilot to run tasks across Outlook, Teams, and Excel

Microsoft has integrated Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology into Copilot. The new feature lets Microsoft 365 handle tasks more autonomously: users describe what they want done, and Cowork builds a ...
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AI assistants fail basic fact-checking in BBC news study

A systematic evaluation of leading AI chatbots reveals widespread problems with accuracy and reliability when handling news content. The study, conducted by the BBC, tested ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, ...