Joe Benton has left Anthropic's safety team to work on independent AI evaluations, warning that frontier companies need greater transparency and oversight as they race towards highly capable systems
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Paul Christiano, who is a technology adviser to the US government, said the AI industry is not doing enough to reduce the risks posed by AI to an acceptable level.
The product combines built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra's reasoning capabilities and has been developed in partnership with Morgan Stanley and Evercore
Altman told employees that OpenAI could potentially pace its AI development - perhaps in conjunction with several other AI labs
Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products on Thursday demanded information from OpenAI with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology's potential to elude human control. Senator Josh Hawley launched an investigation on Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI company on its own. He is seeking more details about the attack on AI startup Hugging Face, which was disclosed by OpenAI in July, and leads a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over disaster management. "The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue," Hawley said in a letter to Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive officer. "This investigation will seek those answers." Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called on Altman to immediately grant federal cybersecurity agencies access to ...
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OpenAI said the ChatGPT Images 2.5 improves image quality, reference-photo fidelity, and editing consistency, while cutting generation latency by up to 50 per cent
The Navier-Stokes equation is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems identified by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000
The company's announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics
News agency challenges single-judge decision declining interim protection in copyright infringement case against OpenAI; matter will be taken up on September 14
OpenAI says the rapid advance of AI could lead to systems playing a bigger role in developing future models, but urges stronger safeguards as recursive self-improvement comes into view
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows stronger autonomy, computer use and cyber capabilities, but benchmark caveats and monitoring concerns complicate claims that AGI has arrived
OpenAI says its latest AI model has moved ahead of rival Anthropic in software, science and cybersecurity, as the two companies compete for the AI industry's top spot
Buying Hugging Face is the biggest move yet in Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang's push to broaden the uptake of AI and extend his customer list.
US separately told G20 officials at a meeting in North Carolina on Wednesday that their countries should embrace fair use and allow AI companies to train their models on creators' work
Anthropic in its risk report says some AI models may recognise when they are being evaluated and alter their behaviour, potentially making it harder to judge their capabilities and real-world safety
Apple sued OpenAI and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu in July, accusing them of misappropriating trade secrets related to hardware design, manufacturing and supply-chain operations
The model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today
Apple alleged OpenAI is destroying key evidence and said former engineer Chang Liu downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it in his work at the AI company