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OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting cod…
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. …
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new ty…
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly ha…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But when attacks are hidden inside documents the AI reads, the mo…
Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge laun…
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek wants to put 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips into an Inner Mongolia data center for inference only, not training. It would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. But…
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in an old German wiki between May and July …
Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while Artificial Analysis rates it no better than its predecessor …
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
Nvidia's PAIR (Personal AI Router) automatically spreads local AI requests across all available devices on a home network, cutting wait times for parallel agent tasks. The article…
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecu…
Pangram's biggest flaw is users turning its scores into public shaming
Pangram hired an "attack dog" to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren't the same: Pangram only somewhat reliably measures whether AI…
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. …
Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royal…
AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it u…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails …
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda …
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as fair use. The filing directl…
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applicat…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns abou…
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government. The article US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform Gen…
Protests against AI data centers play into China's hands, Trump says
President Trump has pushed back hard against growing opposition to AI data centers across the US. The article Protests against AI data centers play into China's hands, Trump says …