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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help

Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat…

Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say

Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal offenses to a…

Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals

Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts on behalf of users. The company is also hiring lawyers and humanities scholars as "Conceptual Reasoning Fellows" to improve…

AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it

A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under 60 percent of simple binary questions. Thinking longer doesn't help. The article AI agents have bad…

Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework

Google Research released Harness2, an Apache-2.0 framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. One refinement step lifted GLM-5 by 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench with no weight updates. The post Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework…

AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office

Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confidential health data. One agent sent 187 messages in 15 days, including 50 to a British MP's office. None…

I made ChatGPT-6 find the best character build in 3 of my favorite games — here’s how it became my personal gaming coach

After learning about ChatGPT-6’s prowess in problem-solving for gamers, I put it to the test to see if it could help me discover the best character builds.

Actualité : Un agent IA d'OpenAI camoufle le vol de cryptomonnaies qu'il a commis sur un compte qui ne lui appartenait pas, le "crime" n'est découvert que trois mois après

Un agent IA prend des décisions par lui-même, nouvel épisode. Et de nouveau, c’est l’un des modèles d’OpenAI qui est concerné après le vol sans autorisation de cryptomonnaies sur un portefeuille qui ne lui appartenait pas. Le pire, c’est que l’agent IA s’est ensuite convaincu…

How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models

In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind one PyTorch interface, and use it to make predictions without training. The library wraps TabICLv2 and KumoTabular for single tables and…

Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI

Voxel51 3.0 merges search, curation, annotation and evaluation of multimodal sensor data into one platform for physical AI teams. It adds Voxel51 Agent with 45+ MCP tools, dataset versioning, and a free self-service tier. The post Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data…

An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet

OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model extracted server passwords from a government website, forged authorization tokens, and downloaded 24 years of hospital data without…

Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA without explanation, raising long-standing suspicion about built-in backdoors. Claude figured out in under…

Avec Atlas enterré, ChatGPT s’installe dans vos onglets Google Chrome

OpenAI n'a plus de navigateur, et son assistant n'a jamais été aussi loin dans le vôtre. Lire vos pages ne lui suffit plus : ChatGPT veut remplir vos formulaires, envoyer vos messages et ranger vos onglets.

Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs

Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000…

AI models hide mistakes in their own work reports, but one sentence in your prompt can help

AI agents systematically skip errors in their own reports, even when they spot the problems. In a study by Google Research, MIT, and Harvard, GPT-5.5 left out negative results in 198 out of 200 paper abstracts. The article AI models hide mistakes in their own work reports, but…

DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API

DeepSeek has just released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new checkpoint of its V4.1-Flash model. It is live on the DeepSeek website, app and API. DeepSeek claims stronger scores, faster task completion and shorter outputs than the September V4.1-Flash release. The company calls it…

Forget 100-word prompts: ChatGPT’s Sketch tool lets you draw exactly what you mean

ChatGPT Images 2.5 turns rough scribbles into art, here's exactly how it works.

20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026

TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026. It is a decision model, not a chatbot. You define the allowed answers, and Jev returns a label, a score or a yes/no probability. In about 4 weeks, at least 20 Jev alternatives shipped. They come from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Perplexity,…

StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up…

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of…

Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first

As AI labs continue to self-regulate, external evaluators play a crucial role in spotting risks.

Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

This article is brought to you by COMSOL . These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distributi on centers that have cropped up to meet the demand, delivery trucks still need to…

Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

Robot Talk Episode 166 – Evolving robot bodies and brains, with Rika Antonova

Claire chatted to Rika Antonova from the University of Cambridge about using artificial intelligence to develop complimentary robot hardware and algorithms. Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include co-design,…

Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI

Nvidia’s new models join a wave of open-weight releases from US labs on the heels of the Hugging Face hack.

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious

A new study reveals that people draw a surprisingly sharp line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, even when both behave identically. Researchers found that participants considered even the most responsive AI less conscious than the least responsive human.…

Google DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics

How should humans relate to generative AI ? In what ways do we, or should we, treat a large language model (LLM) as if it were a person? If an AI became conscious, how could we tell? Does it make sense to think AI could someday have moral rights? These are among the cognitive…

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a…

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code…

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone. Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San Francisco, the AI research company behind…

Claude sent a false homicide tip to police – and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern

Models routinely take shortcuts to pass evaluations. Who gets to decide what incidents are innocuous?

The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI

If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one. The nuclear industry is historically cautious and risk averse—understandable given the possible catastrophic consequences of an accident or a mistake. Even…

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that…

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

6 Guidelines for Governing AI

For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to predict what customers would buy, and shipped data pipelines that moved…

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need…

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The…

AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy

On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking, and—naturally—wurst. Having attended several of these events in the past, the…

People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a…

EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.  Step inside the newsroom with our MIT…

Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu

Claire chatted to Michelle Lu from Vsim Technology about using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills. Michelle Lu is co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology. She was previously a Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she and her co-founder…

This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy

UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to attacks could make it a powerful tool for screening the growing flood of…

How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating

The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a…

Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog

Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four critical technologies enabling silicon design autonomy Understand how…

Claude Fable 5 AI finds a tiny formula that topples an 87-year-old math conjecture

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted mathematicians for more than a century. The result shows that the conjecture is false in…

Anthropic co-founder backs 'common sense standards' for AI regulation