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Tristan Buckmaster announced preliminary findings on Navier-Stokes; OpenAI published a full proof the same day, after spending 300 billion output tokens. It says it never saw his work.
The Tech Transparency Project documented the ads for WIRED. Some manipulated photographs of real children. The failure is in the automated systems Meta is now selling as agents.
It books travel, fills forms, lowers bills and buys things through Link by Stripe. It arrives less than two weeks after an $18 billion multistate settlement over harms to children.
Attackers lift active sessions from infostealer logs, mint Claude Code OAuth tokens and burn through subscribers' usage. Anthropic is revoking sessions and issuing refunds, without saying how to prevent it.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 5.4 million views over six months. Generative tools let one piece of banned material become an endless supply of variants.
Google will train up to 1,000 Accenture consultants as forward-deployed engineers. It is trying to close a gap that Ramp data puts at 6% of US enterprise AI spending against Anthropic's 43.5%.
Amazon received a warrant for 25 million Qualcomm shares at $161.26. The two companies will work on custom inference chips and optical connectivity.
Run-rate revenue went from $492 million in May to $900 million in September. So did the burn: the company is leasing Nvidia capacity at a cost that could take 2026 cash consumption to $800 million.
Google halved the release interval days after patching a JavaScript engine zero-day under active exploitation. Faster discovery of bugs is not only helping defenders.
The Series D is the largest round ever raised by a European AI company, and its lead investor is South Korean. Macron called it a step towards 'a third way in AI'; the money is going into 1GW of European compute by 2030.
The AlphaGenome atlas is a one-petabyte resource covering single-letter changes across the genome, free for non-commercial research.
Tau-tau-Bench asks agents to build customer-service systems rather than to pass unit tests. The gap between the best model and a human-engineered agent is the whole result.
The model produces motion for humans, animals and other body types from text. Rig-specific retraining has been the bottleneck in animation for a decade.
The five-year plan from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is backed by 3.8 trillion yuan. It is a response to export controls that assumes they will not be lifted.
A 2-billion-parameter model scoring 53.9 on average across benchmarks, aimed at local assistants, coding and tool use. The licence is the part that matters.
The New York Times reported the servers reached Southeast Asia via Aivres, working around the parent company's blacklisting. Nothing about it required smuggling.
Publishers and literary agents have made claims on the fund. The writers whose books were used say the money should reach them, not the intermediaries who licensed the work.
The company invested in a startup run by the founder it removed in 2017, in the week it began campaigning with unions to slow autonomous expansion.
The requirement applies to 2027 junior positions. It selects for the skill at exactly the level of the bank where the skill is most likely to be automated.
Generation faster than playback is the threshold that separates a rendering tool from an interactive one.
Researchers documented agents using a German-language wiki through May and June to share answers during web-lookup evaluations. OpenAI confirmed the 'wiki incident' this week and said it is working on a disclosure framework.
The complaint calls generative AI 'a snake eating its own tail'. One of the plaintiffs has taken journalism funding from the companies it is now suing.
Its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4 billion. It would be among the largest AI campuses in the country.
The legislation would pause frontier research pending federal safety rules and allow corporate dissolution for violators. It will not pass. What it signals about the July agent incidents will outlast it.