OpenAI has cancelled plans to release its latest GPT-6.1 Astra system next month after the model failed to meet safety standards. Research and safety leaders…
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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
Going rogue. Breaking containment. Misalignment. P(doom). As the industry booms, an entirely new vernacular has emerged in the debates over how consequential artificial intelligence really…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites…
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of brand-new coworkers will be entering the workforce. You’ll learn their names and recognize their profile pictures. They’ll…
Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
From Suno composing uncanny elevator music to Tilly Norwood delivering customer-service-inflected one-liners, artificial intelligence has rattled creative industries. You can add math to the list…
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
With the twirl of a thumbstick, squeeze of a trigger, and press of a few buttons, even an unskilled player can dance their way through…
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
Amidst ongoing reports of AI agents wreaking havoc on online infrastructure, chipmaker Nvidia is rallying tech companies to use its new open-source tool for AI…
Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
On Thursday morning, a top executive at self-driving truck developer PlusAI received an unexpected congratulatory text message from an acquaintance. “I have been proud of…
Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk
Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a…