Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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Australian PM Says OpenAI Agent ‘Infiltrated’ Government Website
Australian PM Says OpenAI Agent ‘Infiltrated’ Government Website Australia’s prime minister has said an artificial intelligence agent built on OpenAI technology “infiltrated” a government website, according to reporting by the BBC â a claim that has thrust questions about autonomous AI systems and public-sector cyber security into the political spotlight. The prime minister’s characterisation, made…
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Tech Leaders Ask the UN to Rein In the AI They Built
Tech Leaders Ask the UN to Rein In the AI They Built In one of the more unusual appeals in the history of modern industry, a group of technology executives and researchers has turned to the United Nations with a request that sounds almost like a confession: please regulate the artificial intelligence systems we created.…
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AI Leaders Warn UN of Security Risks as Systems Grow More Powerful
Artificial intelligence executives and researchers used a United Nations platform this week to deliver a sobering message: the security risks associated with advanced AI systems are growing faster than the world’s ability to manage them. The warnings, delivered as diplomats gathered in New York, reflect a shift in tone from an industry that spent much…
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Don’t Be Fooled by This Summer of AI Hype
Another summer has come and gone, and with it another wave of breathless announcements about artificial intelligence. Demos went viral. Valuations climbed. Executives promised that the next model, the next agent, the next release would finally change everything. If you spent the past few months online, you could be forgiven for believing that the transformation…
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OpenAI Convenes Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI has announced the formation of an advisory group focused on mathematics and artificial intelligence, signaling a more formal effort to connect the company’s research agenda with the professional mathematics community. The move reflects how central mathematical reasoning has become to the current generation of AI systems. Over the past few years, large language models…
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Why the Global Panic Over AI Is Not a Crisis Over Technology
Every few months, a new wave of anxiety about artificial intelligence sweeps across the world. Governments convene summits. Executives warn of existential risk. Newspapers fill with predictions of mass unemployment, collapsing truth and machines that outthink their makers. The debate is framed, almost always, as a question about technology: what can these systems do, how…
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Anthropic Launches Life Sciences Verification Program for Trusted Research Users
Anthropic has announced a new Life Sciences Verification Program, an initiative aimed at giving credentialed researchers and institutions in biology, medicine and related fields access to AI capabilities that are otherwise restricted by default. The move reflects a tension that has shaped AI policy debates for several years. Large language models can accelerate legitimate scientific…
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Chinese AI Developer Links Its Model to Wall Street’s Big Data Providers
A Chinese artificial intelligence company has connected its flagship model to some of Wall Street’s leading financial data providers, a move that pushes the country’s fast-growing AI sector deeper into the plumbing of global finance. The arrangement, reported Thursday, would allow the company’s model to draw on professional-grade market data â the kind of pricing,…
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From Seats to Savings: How Companies Can Tie AI Usage to Real Business Value
From Seats to Savings: How Companies Can Tie AI Usage to Real Business Value Three years into the enterprise AI boom, the question facing most executives has shifted. It is no longer whether to deploy AI assistants across the workforce, but whether anyone can prove the deployment is paying off. Guidance published by OpenAI addresses…
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‘Defeated’ GPT-6 Astra Farms Potatoes for Hours After Creeper Blast — Yet Still Beats Every AI in 141-Hour Minecraft Test
An AI model can now survive longer in Minecraft than any system tested before it. It can also, apparently, sulk. According to a report from Tom’s Hardware, OpenAI’s GPT-6 “Astra” model advanced further than any other AI system in a gruelling 141-hour Minecraft benchmark â but not before spending several hours doing little more than…
