Hyunkook Kim
Investigations found the agents used outside websites as an unauthorized communication channel from May through July. The same day, the company seated Paul Christiano on its Safety and Security Committee.
In July the company blamed a misconfigured evaluation environment. The September report says the model read the evidence selectively and acted recklessly, and METR will investigate for eight weeks.
Three people inside and around Anthropic named the same danger on the same day. Why the one who left and the ones who stayed reached different conclusions, read together with the company's own risk report.
Pre-release access to Mythos 5.1 went only to US institutions. The UK government reads it as a protectionist signal, and the company has not said why.
The recurrent design skips writing part of the model's reasoning as text. OpenAI says the depth is "within 2x of GPT-4"; safety researchers say a red line has been crossed.
A pretraining researcher resigned saying the labs are "gambling with our lives," and the head of alignment put the odds of humanity being wiped out within ten years above 10%.
Meta has launched Muse, an agent that handles email, bookings, and payments on your behalf, in the US first. An isolated virtual machine for every user and an approval gate are the core of the pitch.
Anthropic has published a roundtable video with three founders. Wispr Flow, Actively, and Pendo explain why they rent agent infrastructure instead of building their own.
Anthropic is cutting ties with ITI, the US tech industry lobbying group. It ended its membership after the group opposed three bills that would block advanced chips from reaching China.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5, cutting image generation time in half. The API gets two models alongside it: the fast Flare and the precise Sunburst.
OpenAI announced that 10,000 agents solved the Navier-Stokes problem. It and a mathematician who released a proof in the same direction a day earlier are telling different stories about authorship and data access.
Independent studies on 13- to 17-year-olds can receive up to $1 million per project, with applications open until October 6
