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Sakana AI bets AI that improves itself can break the compute arms race of frontier labs

Japanese startup Sakana AI has founded the "Sakana AI RSI Lab," a research group focused on recursive self-improvement (RSI). The goal is to explore how AI can speed up and improve the development of ...
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Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data"

Like other AI companies scraping the web, Microsoft is likely relying on fair use. The paper describes the data as a "mixture of publicly available and licensed human-generated data." For web data, ...
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OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers

OpenAI has shipped a batch of new features for Codex, including role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, product design, and investment banking; 62 apps and 110 capabilities in total. Legal and ...
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OpenAI's Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own

OpenAI has expanded its Codex app to Windows 11, adding "Computer Use" and mobile access. The AI can now use apps, files, and other resources on a PC, even when the user isn't at the computer. That ...
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ChatGPT now saves narrative dossiers about you sorted by work, hobbies, and travel preferences

OpenAI updates its "Dreaming" memory system for ChatGPT. Instead of saving individual facts as bullet points in a list, ChatGPT now builds a coherent prose profile, split into categories like work, ...
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Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware

Attackers are exploiting shared chat links in ChatGPT and Claude to push malware. Both platforms let users share conversations publicly via URL. Victims stumble onto these chats through paid search ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI says "chat is dead" and plans to rebuild ChatGPT as a full-blown agent app "Chat is dead," a senior OpenAI employee told the Financial Times. The company is shifting ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Meta's Hatch AI agent could cost up to $200 a month and marks its first paid AI product Internal documents show a free version and a "Hatch Plus" subscription with five to ten ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Google unveiled the new Coral Board at Google I/O - a compact single-board computer for on-device AI. The board features the Coral NPU, an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V ...
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500 investment bankers review AI outputs and find none ready for client delivery

A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day. Not a single output was deemed ready to send to a client.
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...