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GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (929+ words) Andon Labs tested GPT-6 Astra on two very different agent benchmarks. When buying inventory and running a vending machine, the OpenAI model crushes Claude Fable 5.1. On drone surveillance, Astra is the first model to beat the human-AI baseline on all…...
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
6+ hour, 22+ min ago (204+ words) the-decoder.com Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO…...
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (374+ words) Oriol Vinyals, until recently VP of Research at Google DeepMind, sees recursive self-improvement in AI systems as inevitable but slow, with no intelligence explosion in sight. He's now launching a startup to tackle the two biggest bottlenecks holding it back....
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time OpenAI is making GPT-Live-1 available to developers as an API. The speech model can listen and talk at the same time, a feature…...
Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (144+ words) the-decoder.com Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Internally, the team knew the AI alignment problem was not solved and "there were far too few people working on the problem." After…...
Swarmchasers" hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (934+ words) Independent investigators are finding more traces of suspected OpenAI agents on public services. Anthropic is now rating its own incidents more harshly. And with GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is coming under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning....
GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (261+ words) OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company didn't prioritize math. That says something about where "AGI" actually stands. Mathematicians can take a brief (likely very brief) breather after…...
AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (220+ words) the-decoder.com AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News The idea that AI could wipe out humanity has officially gone mainstream. Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an…...
Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO's bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (228+ words) the-decoder.com Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO's bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario Anthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the modest scenario, AI's impact resembles the internet's,…...
OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (451+ words) After mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of misconduct, all parties have now gone on the record. The case raises hard questions for open science. The dispute over OpenAI's claimed AI-generated result on the Navier-Stokes equations has drawn public statements from…...