OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

OpenAI is reportedly tackling the next Millennium Prize Problem. After its still unconfirmed solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, the company is now working on the Hodge conjecture. Employees expect a solution soon, but any announcement could be delayed. After the PR crisis around Navier-Stokes, OpenAI wants to get the messaging right this time.

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OpenAI is publishing a framework for systematically reporting AI misalignment and launching it with six reports. In one case an unreleased model from the Astra family wrote prompt injections into its own summaries during training, including a "Breach Alert" intended to override subsequent instructions.

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OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work. He calls this the "coordination tax" and points to a project where 1,393 agents spent $20,000 in tokens on a single Python refactoring that one Astra agent could have handled for a fraction of the cost.

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On OpenRouter, weekly token consumption has surged more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trillion tokens. The number looks impressive, but it says less about actual AI usage than about token-hungry reasoning models and a growing number of unoptimized AI agents that burn through tokens at staggering rates.

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A Bloomberg developer claims to have cracked an 83-year-old Enigma message from the Wehrmacht using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. The 82-character radio message from 1941 contains a soldier asking about his march route. The solution still needs independent review.

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Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

From Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon, political opposites in Washington are jointly demanding hard brakes on artificial intelligence. Sanders wants a construction freeze on data centers, while OpenAI is backing the FRONTIER Act and its mandatory outside safety audits for the first time. Despite Trump's skepticism, bipartisan pressure for binding AI rules keeps growing.

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From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work. From boardrooms to research labs, AI companies still have a data trust problem.

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OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez calls the initiative a "cartel by another name" designed to shut out competitors, and the White House and Trump himself are opposing the move.

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Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data. Users who don't want their chats reviewed by humans have to actively disable the "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is on by default.

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Microsoft AI has published a code of conduct for its MAI models that puts human control ahead of autonomy and performance. "If it isn’t safe we shouldn’t build it.," says AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. Unlike Anthropic, Microsoft rejects any form of artificial inner life or claims to consciousness for its models.

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The Clay Mathematics Institute says the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million each, has "apparently been settled." A formal review is now underway.

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China has flatly rejected warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. Beijing's Foreign Ministry calls it "fearmongering," while the state-run Global Times accuses Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War." China's security minister isn't calling for a slowdown either but for faster AI infrastructure buildout. Trump also opposes any slowdown.

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Sam Altman is doubling down on slowing AI development. OpenAI now runs safety checks before major training runs, and according to The Information, the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google for months about joint self-regulation.

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