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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective ...

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientists. The app pulls ...
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Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Taiwanese authorities raid Super Micro Computer offices and several local partner companies over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling to China. Super Micro is a US company headquartered in San Jose, ...
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Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring

Samsung and SK Hynix, backed by the South Korean government, plan to pour $590 billion into expanding chip production. Of that total, 800 trillion won goes toward four new factories in the country's ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full ...

Security researchers at 0DIN, Mozilla's GenAI bug bounty platform, found a new attack vector targeting developers' machines. Through a normal-looking GitHub repository, attackers can gain full control ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in The effort ties back to a renegotiation of the partnership, ...
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are ...

A Washington Post investigation reveals that most major AI chatbots still lean left on political issues, even when they are explicitly marketed as conservative alternatives. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and ...
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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds

A study published in Science is the first to systematically measure how much AI language models engage in social sycophancy and what it does to people. Across three experiments with 2,405 participants ...