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OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

OpenAI's "Plugins" failed because the AI models weren't good enough. Plugins launched in 2023 to add web search and third-party apps like Gmail to ChatGPT. "That didn't work. It didn't work at all ...
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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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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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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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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: How easily can Russian propaganda fool AI models? A new benchmark finds out The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI ...
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OpenAI says old prompts are holding GPT-5.5 back and developers need a fresh baseline

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for GPT-5.5 with one major takeaway: don't reuse your old prompts. Start fresh with minimal, result-focused instructions. And role definitions, once dismissed as ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...
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Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to peak-hour caps and ballooning contexts

Anthropic has looked into complaints from users who were hitting their Claude Code usage limits much faster than expected. According to Anthropic's Lydia Hallie, tighter limits during peak hours and ...
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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...