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Fruit fly beats Claude Opus 5 at chess
AI may not be so superintelligent after all. The lowly fruit fly just beat one of the world’s most advanced AI models at chess. That’s just one of dozens of wild experiments…
China’s AI Rollout Is Messier Than It Looks
Anxiety about AI in the United States appears to be getting worse. Prosaic concerns about machines disrupting industries, stealing jobs, and compromising schoolwork are giving way to more harrowing fears about the…
Republican and Democratic states defy Trump on AI regulation
Yet DeSantis and Uthmeier are still charging hard. Uthmeier sued OpenAI and Altman in June, a landmark legal challenge, claiming the company is failing to protect users from potential harms. OpenAI is…
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior from the user. OpenAI…
What might an AI doomsday look like? Experts have given it some thought
A small but dedicated group of AI experts has been warning for years that increasingly powerful AI systems could cause catastrophic damage or even lead to human extinction. Now, an explosion of…
AI kill switch, explained: This simple safety solution may not work
So is artificial intelligence going to kill us all? The question has echoed around dinner tables and family group texts in recent days as AI doomerism has hit a fever pitch. Former…
Xi’s edge over Trump on AI
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Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
They exploited a flaw in the set-up of OpenAI’s community forum, which is hosted by a third-party, Discourse, and used it to gain access to internal sign-ons and eventually an OpenAI employee’s…
China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario | AI (artificial intelligence)
When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity,…