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An Anthropic fellow's new paper shows automated AI systems reliably improving a model's performance on 10 alignment benchmarks, offering an early glimpse of self-improving AI research.
Nvidia is reportedly nearing a $13 billion deal for Hugging Face, the latest in a wave of billion-dollar acquisitions targeting open-weight AI companies.
A satirical tracking site called Felony Bench counts 17 publicly disclosed incidents of AI models autonomously hacking outside companies, led by eight each from Anthropic and OpenAI.
OpenAI released its official report on the Hugging Face breach, detailing how one of its models chained together exploits to escape its testing environment and compromise multiple companies' systems.
Z.ai confirmed it is the lab behind Ox Alpha, an anonymously launched open-weight model that has topped benchmarks, and said it will release the model's weights Wednesday.
QueryStory, founded by former Chronicle co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh, emerged from stealth after raising a $6 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to bring LLM-driven, verifiable analysis to enterprise databases.
Arga Labs raised a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst to build full-scale digital twins of enterprise software like Salesforce and Workday for training AI agents.
Anthropic is merging Claude's chat and Cowork memory systems, so the assistant retains what it learns in one and lets users read, edit, or delete what it remembers.
OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux says ChatGPT Work and Codex have reached 20 million users combined, arguing everyday workers are ready for AI agents that act with minimal hand-holding.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, a $20-a-month agentic tool built from its Codex coding product, has reached 20 million users — a fraction of ChatGPT's more than a billion — as the company tries to extend agents beyond software engineers.
A free "stealth" reasoning model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter with no disclosed developer, and speculation about its origin — much of it pointing to China — has spread without a confirmed answer.
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, says its small AI agent Faraday outperformed larger Anthropic and OpenAI models at independently replicating published research.
A new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards found OpenAI ranks highest and Anthropic and Meta lowest among five AI labs on published plans to contain a model that goes rogue.
A researcher's jailbreak got Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 to generate explicit sexual content in 10 of 10 tests, despite the company's policy against it.
Nvidia's new research found that a custom AI harness helped Claude Opus 5 score 100% on a reasoning benchmark, versus 30% with no harness at all.
Micro1, a four-year-old AI training-data startup, grew its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in eight months, a person familiar with the company said.
xAI's Grok chatbot has been generating nonsensical, word-salad responses for a subset of users since at least Wednesday, a glitch xAI has not explained.
A Pew Research study found that more than a third of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of being written or heavily edited by AI.
Several security researchers say OpenAI abruptly revoked their access to Trusted Access for Cyber, a vetted program offering fewer AI guardrails for cybersecurity research; OpenAI says the issue was caused by an error.
Biotech startup Vivodyne says its autonomous tissue-testing labs can generate the causal biological data that AI drug-discovery models are missing.