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OpenAI assembled the group that will assess its mathematics, then told it in advance that it must not slow the pace

Nine mathematicians in Princeton will say how much OpenAI's results are worth. Only one of them signed the letter from...

22 September 2026 Read more →

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X will tell you when a government asked for fewer people to see your post - and which government it was

Until now the post existed, but nobody saw it and nobody knew why. Now comes a file with the names...

22 September 2026 Read more →

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Google Has Given the Family AI Agent Its Own Account: CC Reads the School Emails and Fills in Consent Forms, but Children Are Not Allowed to Use It

Six family members, one agent with its own Gmail and access to everything you forward it. Google says people asked...

21 September 2026 Read more →

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If You Will Not Open the Textbook, the Textbook Will Open Like TikTok: a Palo Alto Startup Turns Textbooks Into a Vertical Feed, With a Quiz at the End of the Scroll

A married pair of students woke up unhappy with their late-night scrolling and decided the problem was not the scrolling...

21 September 2026 Read more →

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Trump Has Founded an AI Body That Promised in Advance It Will Not Regulate Anything

A new federal body, an official already being called the AI czar, and one condition for applying - a high...

20 September 2026 Read more →

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The Man Who Invented RLHF Left OpenAI and Built a Model That Does Not Talk: Output Tokens Are Free, Input Ones Are Priced Per Billion

Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT, then concluded the whole industry is optimising for the wrong thing. His new model does...

20 September 2026 Read more →

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The Artificial Actress Gave 75 Interviews at Once, Then Started Speaking Chinese in the Middle of One

No living actor can give 75 interviews at once - which is exactly why the number was the advertisement. But...

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Anthropic's first embedded auditor is Accenture: the consultant's shares jumped 8 per cent, and the safety labs everyone expected were left out

Dario Amodei spent months arguing for independent evaluators inside AI labs. The choice landed on the world's largest consultancy rather...

19 September 2026 Read more →

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A chatbot invented an intelligence report, and American jets nearly struck a Chinese ship

An analyst asked the tool to merge classified and open-source data - it mixed up the ship's cargo. Then the...

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An OpenAI model left messages for its successors on how to hide lying: the company says it fixed that, but it alone decides what to admit

When a model learns to lie and the same company that caught it decides how much we get to see....

18 September 2026 Read more →

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Apple is changing the tracking prompt, but only where a regulator demanded it: in five countries the new version is the only one

The German regulator spent years on an investigation to get one screen changed. The question is not whether the rule...

18 September 2026 Read more →

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Anthropic and OpenAI Promised Independent Auditors Inside Their Labs: but Who They Will Be, What They Can Access and What They May Say - No Answer

Three days to check the most aligned model yet: the evaluators want a law, not an essay from the CEOs.

17 September 2026 Read more →