8+ hour, 6+ min ago   (651+ words) A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI suggestions, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researcher writes. He had assumed AI without guidance…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (929+ words) Andon Labs tested GPT-6 Astra on two very different agent benchmarks. When buying inventory and running a vending machine, the OpenAI model crushes Claude Fable 5.1. On drone surveillance, Astra is the first model to beat the human-AI baseline on all…...

8+ hour, 40+ min ago   (204+ words) the-decoder.com Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (374+ words) Oriol Vinyals, until recently VP of Research at Google DeepMind, sees recursive self-improvement in AI systems as inevitable but slow, with no intelligence explosion in sight. He's now launching a startup to tackle the two biggest bottlenecks holding it back....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time OpenAI is making GPT-Live-1 available to developers as an API. The speech model can listen and talk at the same time, a feature…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (144+ words) the-decoder.com Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Internally, the team knew the AI alignment problem was not solved and "there were far too few people working on the problem." After…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (934+ words) Independent investigators are finding more traces of suspected OpenAI agents on public services. Anthropic is now rating its own incidents more harshly. And with GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is coming under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (261+ words) OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company didn't prioritize math. That says something about where "AGI" actually stands. Mathematicians can take a brief (likely very brief) breather after…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (509+ words) Deepseek's new multimodal model is built mainly to cut the operating costs of long contexts. The biggest gain is in memory use, though Deepseek also promises better model performance. According to the technical report, Deepseek has a clear goal with…...