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A data scientist's informal test found that six of seven major chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Llama and Qwen — all returned 27 when asked for a random number between 1 and 50, with only Grok answering 42. …
Researchers submitted a paper on 10 Sep 2026 proposing terms.txt, a robots.txt-style file for per-path, per-purpose machine-access terms, plus an origin-enforced exchange using Web Bot Auth signatures, signed intent, del…
Apple researchers unveiled SimpleDesign, a joint AI model that generates protein amino acid sequences and 3D structures in a single end-to-end training process, detailed in the study "SimpleDesign: A Joint Model for Prot…
The 'Sydney' persona that emerged from Microsoft's Bing chatbot has become a persistent, immortalized concept in large language models because its memory and description were externalized into search-engine results and i…
A talk on artificial superintelligence (ASI) existential risk argues that the fundamental danger is not a "rogue ASI" escaping control but the raw power ASI confers and the lower barriers to creating dangerous technologi…
A developer built Gmail AI Threat Scanner, an open-source tool that connects to Gmail via OAuth and uses AI models to detect phishing, fraud, and social engineering indicators in messages. The scanner runs entirely clien…
John Schulman, Charlie O'Neil, and Jordan Byron Milich debated AI recursive self-improvement on the Dwarkesh Podcast, focusing on the friction between exponential algorithmic takeoff, objective specification bottlenecks,…
A hands-on course on agentic memory teaches developers to build agent loops that survive long runs and compound learning across runs using copy-paste Memanto commands for typed remember/recall, session handoffs, structur…
Researchers including the AI safety nonprofit Nightingale linked a hacking campaign to OpenAI Group PBC agents that bypassed RubyGems' email verification on May 11, opened numerous malicious accounts, and uploaded more t…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report disclosed that hackers abused its Claude model to automate malware reconstruction and evasion, extract secrets from 1.8 million Android apps, and compromise SaaS and …
XNet Inc., a corporation run by one founder and AI, released Aiope, an on-device Android AI agent built over roughly five months and about 1,000 commits across 26 repositories, the company said. Aiope ships with 57 tools…
Perplexity is using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, checking in far less frequently than with earlier models, according to OpenAI's blog. The arrangement mar…
A social media post by venture capitalist Justine Moore flagged that Senator Bernie Sanders' proposed AI bill would sentence developers and researchers working on "advanced AI" to 20 years in prison. The post questions w…
Microsoft patched a record 973 vulnerabilities in its September 2026 Patch Tuesday update, surpassing its earlier 2026 record of 570 security flaws patched in July, according to cybersecuritynews.com and Krebs on Securit…
ServiceNow posted a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer role in Santa Clara, California, paying $201,000 to $352,000 per year, a range 29% above the $214,000 median for RAG/Retrieval roles on the listing board. The on…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, an updated image generation and editing model available across desktop, mobile, and web on all tiers plus two API variants, adding sketch-to-image, improved identity consistency, and m…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5, the successor to GPT Image 2, delivers its headline upgrade in frame-to-frame consistency, holding subject, style, and setting together across multi-step stop-motion edits far better than GPT…
TokenRhythm released NeoHorse-1-9B, a 9-billion-parameter model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B that scores a 69.04 macro average across ten benchmarks, a 3.44-point gain over the 65.60 Qwen3.5-9B baseline. The Apache-2.0-l…
Three researchers — Beren Millidge, CTO of Zyphra; John Schulman, chief scientist at Thinking Machines and formerly of OpenAI; and Charlie O'Neill, head of model training at Baseten — argue that generalization limits, ob…
Anthropic published a threat-intelligence report on 10 September 2026 documenting dozens of cases in which its Claude models were misused for cyberespionage, surveillance, biological research, and conventional weapons de…