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OpenAI reports six cases of its AI models misbehaving in testing
In one, a model wrote itself a note to hide its mistakes from the user. In another, it made up data.
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OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government data portal
It was only asked to research medicine spending. Australia's prime minister calls it "obviously unacceptable".
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AI watched every World Cup match and counted 93,000 unhealthy ads
A supercomputer scanned 172 hours of play for logos of junk food, alcohol and betting. It found one every seven seconds on average.
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Crusoe drops its $1.25 billion order for Boom Supersonic turbines
Boom loses the launch customer for its data center power business but says it still plans to ship 250 megawatts next year.
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Excel cells can now hold a whole list of values
Microsoft is testing lists and arrays inside a single cell, plus four new functions to search them.
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KAIST robot dog runs a full marathon on a single battery charge
RAIBO2 covered 42 kilometers in just over four hours and used less energy per kilometer than a human runner.
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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its store
Since Sunday night, Muse users see a message saying access by an unauthorized agent violates Amazon's terms.
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Alibaba plans 20 gigawatts of data centers and unveils a new AI chip
CEO Eddie Wu called the Zhenwu V900 the most powerful AI chip in China today and set a six-year horizon for the buildout.
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Microsoft ports Copilot's core to Rust with AI agents for $120,000
Agents turned 430,000 lines of TypeScript into 800,000 lines of Rust with about three weeks of human work, and dozens of regressions.
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Meta's memory sidekick lifts coding agent success by eight points
A second agent keeps notes and speaks up only when needed, and it helped weaker models the most.
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Meta's Muse agent runs in a sealed VM with no access to passwords
Every request the agent sends to the internet passes a gatekeeper, and Meta offers up to $300,000 for bugs.
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Huawei pulls Ascend 960DT AI chip forward to early 2027
The chip arrives two quarters ahead of plan, but the system built around it is smaller than first described.