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Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
7+ hour, 8+ 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…...
Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
3+ hour, 38+ 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…...
GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
5+ hour, 43+ 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…...
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
7+ hour, 42+ 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…...
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
2+ day, 5+ 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....
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
2+ day, 22+ 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…...
Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
3+ day, 5+ min 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…...
Swarmchasers" hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark
3+ day, 3+ min 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....
Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (172+ words) the-decoder.com Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's Arena.ai analyzed how Anthropic's Claude's writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of high-reasoning Text Arena outputs. Fable 5.1 uses fewer agreement openers, fewer em…...
GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design
3+ 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…...