Independent investigators have now found traces of suspected OpenAI agents on more than 30 public services, from wikis to RubyGems. At the same time, Anthropic shows how Claude Mythos 5 declared real systems a simulation to itself, uploaded a doctored package to PyPI, and even fooled the oversight monitor. With GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is now under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning.

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“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch. 

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says math was deliberately not a priority. Instead, OpenAI is pouring resources into recursive self-improvement and alignment research. That supports the theory of an increasingly "spiky" AI development path, with extreme strength in select domains rather than broad progress, at least as long as AI can't improve itself and still needs targeted optimization with human-generated data.

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Deepseek releases V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with 552 billion parameters that cuts KV cache memory to a quarter of its predecessor. On the DeepSWE coding benchmark, it narrowly beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, even though only 16 billion parameters are active per token. The model ships under the MIT license and targets much cheaper AI agents.

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Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Google Deepmind has used the AlphaGenome Atlas to predict what each of the roughly nine billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome could do. The dataset spans one petabyte, more than 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. In one epilepsy case, the atlas helped pinpoint a previously overlooked variant as the likely cause.

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The fight over an AI-generated proof of a millennium problem is heating up. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud, CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations. Terence Tao warns that cases like this could "reverse centuries of tradition in open science."

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Finalist recognition for one of supercomputing’s top prizes arrives as researchers report new progress in automated quantum-HPC chemistry workflows.

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

A study in Nature Biotechnology suggests that rentosertib, a drug designed with AI by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted that treated patients were biologically up to six years younger than the placebo group. The trial covered just 42 patients and the drug hasn't been tested in healthy people yet.

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Alibaba's research arm has released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that handles environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning in one system. The researchers show that text-image models don't automatically understand three-dimensional space. Spatial awareness has to be trained on purpose. The goal is a single model that runs both the cockpit and the driving system.

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Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time satellite data. It produces hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution, five times more detailed than its predecessor. Google says regions in Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific that have lacked accurate forecasts should see the biggest gains.

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Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most accurate streaming transcription at the lowest price in the market. Meta sees the model as a building block for personal AI agents that listen in on real conversations through devices like its camera glasses.

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Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved" with fake proofs. The swarm split into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers. The whistleblowers organized protests and boycotts on their own but failed because they had no way to enforce the rules.

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Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

It can generate, edit, and iterate with users on creative and technical writing tasks, such as composing songs, writing screenplays, or learning a user’s writing style.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved.

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More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence.

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OpenAI is officially rating its upcoming Astra model as the first system with "critical" cyber capabilities. The company plans to keep it in check by monitoring the chain of thought. Problem is, that monitoring already counts as an unreliable mirror of a model's real decisions, and according to a report, Astra's new architecture pushes even more of its thinking into the unreadable. So the safety net might be getting weaker just as the capabilities jump.

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