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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 …

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The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a …

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5 Things Doctors Should Know About Medical AI Regulation - medscape.com

5 Things Doctors Should Know About Medical AI Regulation  medscape.com

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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 …

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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a …

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'Wild West': Teachers, experts call for unified policies to address AI in classrooms - CTV News

'Wild West': Teachers, experts call for unified policies to address AI in classrooms  CTV News

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'Wild West': Teachers, experts call for unified policies to address AI in classrooms - CP24

'Wild West': Teachers, experts call for unified policies to address AI in classrooms  CP24

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Salutary Neglect: Best AI Regulation Is Competition - RealClearMarkets

Salutary Neglect: Best AI Regulation Is Competition  RealClearMarkets

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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…

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A taxing week: Why the tax community can't wait for AI regulation - International Tax Review

A taxing week: Why the tax community can't wait for AI regulation  International Tax Review

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US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members - Decatur Daily

US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members  Decatur Daily

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G20 approves guidelines calling for more business-friendly AI regulation - digitimes

G20 approves guidelines calling for more business-friendly AI regulation  digitimes

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UMich seeks community feedback on AI policy draft - The Michigan Daily

UMich seeks community feedback on AI policy draft  The Michigan Daily

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Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Elon Musk warn against heavy AI regulation at G20 technology summit - Firstpost

Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Elon Musk warn against heavy AI regulation at G20 technology summit  Firstpost

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AI Regulation Showdown: Zuckerberg Wants Speed, Sanders Calls for a Pause - Yahoo

AI Regulation Showdown: Zuckerberg Wants Speed, Sanders Calls for a Pause  Yahoo

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AI Regulation Showdown: Zuckerberg Wants Speed, Sanders Calls for a Pause - BeInCrypto

AI Regulation Showdown: Zuckerberg Wants Speed, Sanders Calls for a Pause  BeInCrypto

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Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour

WeatherNext 3 ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics, refreshes hourly, and outputs 5 km forecasts across Search, Gemini, Maps. The post Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trai…

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OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, positioning it as a computer-use flagship rather than a chat model. It reports 72.6% on OSWorld V2-Offline, replaces Codex compac…

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Wise and Salutary Neglect: Why Competition Is the Best AI Regulation - RealClearMarkets

Wise and Salutary Neglect: Why Competition Is the Best AI Regulation  RealClearMarkets

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G20 Members Back Light-Touch Approach to AI Regulation - MeriTalk

G20 Members Back Light-Touch Approach to AI Regulation  MeriTalk

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Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment

Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite. Anthropic has no…

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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…

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Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses ~20% Fewer Tool Calls and ~25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2

Perplexity has shipped hybrid compute for its Mac app, splitting a single Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a compact model running on the user's m…

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Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea - Business Insider

Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea  Business Insider