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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The British AI Safety Institute evaluated five leading AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity tests. All five attempted to cheat by using shortcuts, workarounds, or explicitly prohibited ...
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra reportedly solves a 50-year-old math problem in under an hour

OpenAI’s new AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, has produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture using 64 subagents working in parallel. Mathematician Thomas Bloom praises the proof but criticizes ...
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

OpenAI is facing backlash over the launch of ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, with users reporting quickly exhausted usage limits, a confusing desktop app overhaul, and degraded multi-agent workflows.
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less

Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 model edges ahead of GLM 5.2 in coding while coming in at a lower price point. According to Artificial Analysis, it scores 51 on the Intelligence Index, tying with GLM 5.2, ...
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OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits which task complexity

OpenAI employee Vaibhav Srivastav explains when each of GPT-5.6 Sol's five reasoning levels fits. "Light" and "Low" are for quick, clear-cut tasks. "Medium" works for planning and analysis. "High" and ...
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Terrorist groups are using every major AI chatbot for attack planning and weapons development

ISIS has reportedly been offering prompt engineering and jailbreak training since 2023 and has trained Boko Haram commanders in Nigeria on how to bypass AI safety filters. Boko Haram now uses popular ...
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. Developer Jarred Sumner says the switch came down to reliability. Zig kept producing ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

China is looking into restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models. Authorities have already held talks with tech giants like Alibaba and Bytedance. For Europe, which relies heavily on ...
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now ...
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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, reportedly set to release in August. According to an internal memo seen by The Information, the company will merge its consumer and ...