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OpenAI says a new internal model solved more than 100 open math problems after just a month of training. Facing criticism from mathematicians, the company is backing an independent advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study. But OpenAI has…
Anthropic is building its own biology lab to push AI-driven drug development beyond computer simulations. The article Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments appeared first on The Decoder.
The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that…
xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each. The gap grows even wider…
Bytedance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline, from script to video preview. Demand for these videos is surging in China: In Q1 2026 alone, 128,000 short dramas were released there, 95 percent of…
SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI. The article SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake appeared first on The…
Researchers at the University of Bristol want to make medical AI systems safer by borrowing from how drugs get approved. Their "Learning Ensemble" framework defines three areas to check, including system limits, fairness across patient groups, and clinical fit. The…
The US and China have agreed to an official AI dialogue. US Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposed a notification mechanism for AI incidents at the national security level. The announcement comes just before Thursday's summit between Trump and Xi in…
Amazon has blocked Meta's new AI agent Muse from shopping on Amazon.com. The article Amazon blocks Meta's AI agent Muse from online shopping appeared first on The Decoder.
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a separate…
Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex work. Users can interrupt or change the task mid-conversation.…
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled between March and August 2026, rising from 8 percent to 19…
