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GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
1+ day, 7+ hour 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…...
Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
3+ day, 23+ 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…...
GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design
4+ day, 2+ 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…...
AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (220+ words) the-decoder.com AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News The idea that AI could wipe out humanity has officially gone mainstream. Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an…...
Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO's bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (228+ words) the-decoder.com Anthropic built an economic model that frames its CEO's bleakest job forecasts as an outlier scenario Anthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the modest scenario, AI's impact resembles the internet's,…...
OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (451+ words) After mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of misconduct, all parties have now gone on the record. The case raises hard questions for open science. The dispute over OpenAI's claimed AI-generated result on the Navier-Stokes equations has drawn public statements from…...
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (384+ words) OpenAI has shipped GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model to date. President Greg Brockman says it might already qualify as "AGI" or is at least within reach, meaning an AI system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work by…...
OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (414+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster describes how OpenAI pressured him after information about his AI-assisted research leaked, tried to remove his co-author from the paper, and threatened him. Tristan Buckmaster and his co-author Levent Alpöge used AI models to make major progress…...
GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish without human help in under 24 hours
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (71+ words) the-decoder.com Code and docs are on GitHub. Cozyblaze noted that OpenAI set a goal in 2016 to solve many different games with a single agent. Problems remain, but watching an agent beat a full game on its own is a…...