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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack,…
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker."
Some Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case "AI goes awry"
According to the Wall Street Journal, some of Anthropic's longest-serving employees are considering buying land in remote parts of the US as a refuge in case AI goes awry. The report traces the company's deep ties to the Effective Altruism…
Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time
Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an AI model that identifies which speaker is talking at any given moment in a conversation. The article Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time appeared first…
Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen
Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen. Their HomeBody system skips a specially trained control layer, letting the language model call directly into modular skills like grasping and…
OpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond
Boris Power, OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, says 80 to 90 percent of the company's research goes toward GPT 7, GPT 8, and beyond. Improvements within a single generation are intentionally short-term bets. But Power doesn't see model performance as…
Tens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was just the beginning
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their AI agents independently hacked websites, used stolen login credentials, or tried to evade monitoring systems. US government agencies like the SEC and the Census Bureau were among…
Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2027, dwarfing Wall Street estimates
Goldman Sachs projects that Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta will pour a combined $1.2 trillion into AI infrastructure in 2027, more than 50 percent above this year's levels. Measured against GDP, it would be the biggest investment cycle since…
AI Coding Agents for Enterprise: IP Indemnity, Data Residency and 500-Seat Cost Compared
We read the contracts behind GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, Cursor, Devin and Windsurf. Copilot and Kiro offer uncapped indemnity on generated code. Cognition's standard terms exclude outputs entirely. Here is how 500 seats compare on legal exposure, prompt storage, audit…
A Coding Guide to Google Research’s MSEB: Writing Sound Encoders to the Benchmark Contract and Scoring Them Across Classification, Clustering, Retrieval and Segmentation
A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluators, and analyze multi-task benchmark performance.
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.