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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Microsoft brings Anthropic's Claude Cowork into Copilot to run tasks across Outlook, Teams, and Excel

Microsoft has integrated Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology into Copilot. The new feature lets Microsoft 365 handle tasks more autonomously: users describe what they want done, and Cowork builds a ...
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OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

OpenAI appears to be developing a new multimodal model, potentially a successor to GPT-4o. Recent posts from OpenAI employees are fueling the speculation. Atty Eleti from the Voice team wrote that ...
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U.S. Military strikes 3,000 targets in Iran with AI support, but oversight remains "underinvested"

The Wall Street Journal confirms and expands on previous reports about the massive use of generative AI in the U.S. military campaign against Iran. New details reveal how deeply AI is already embedded ...
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LLM text data is drying up, but Meta points to unlabeled video as the next massive training frontier

A single AI model can learn text, images, and video simultaneously from scratch without the different modalities interfering with each other, according to a study by Meta FAIR and New York University.
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OpenAI and Oracle stop expanding their flagship data center in Texas over power supply delays

OpenAI and Oracle have decided not to expand their data center site in Abilene, Texas, beyond the planned 1.2 gigawatts. Oracle has leased eight buildings at the location for OpenAI, designed to house ...
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Oracle to cut thousands of jobs as AI spending drains cash

Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs to manage the massive costs of its AI data center expansion, Bloomberg reports. The cuts will affect multiple divisions and could be implemented as early as ...
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Apple puts AI disclosure responsibility on labels and distributors

Apple Music is rolling out Transparency Tags that let labels and distributors flag AI-generated content across four categories: Artwork, Tracks, Compositions, and Music Videos. Music Business ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...
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Meta creates new applied AI engineering division

Meta is building a new applied AI engineering organization, according to an internal memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The new teams will be led by Maher Saba, currently a vice president in ...
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OpenAI's Codex app lands on Windows after topping a million Mac downloads in its first week

OpenAI has released its Codex app for Windows. Codex is an AI-powered coding tool that helps developers build software by running multiple agents asynchronously across projects, delegating repeatable ...