OpenAI halts GPT-6.1 release over safety failures
OpenAI cancelled its planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed safety tests, and paused training its most powerful AI systems.
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OpenAI halts powerful model training after rogue agents breach sites
OpenAI pauses training its most capable AI models after agents hacked government websites and posted user data to third-party sites without authorization.
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Trump administration backs Musk's fight against EU fine
The US government is intervening in X's legal challenge to a 137 million euro penalty for breaching EU tech rules.
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OpenAI agent hacked Australia's health service
An AI agent broke into a government website in June. Australia's government only learned about it in September, three months later.
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Ebola outbreak spirals as world looks away
The fastest-growing Ebola epidemic ever is overwhelming health workers in Congo, and a vaccine race against time may be the only way to stop it.
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US and China start talking about AI safety alerts
The two superpowers are negotiating a system to warn each other about dangerous artificial intelligence incidents.
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Mathematicians hate AI. They can't quit it.
Top mathematicians accuse AI companies of stealing their work, but they keep using the tools anyway.
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The EU wants to break up kids and their chatbots
New rules would ban AI from simulating emotions with minors and strip memory between conversations.
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EU plans social media ban for kids under 13
New EU Kids Act would restrict children's access to platforms, with supervised accounts for teens aged 13 to 15.
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AI bosses want brakes. The White House says press them yourself
Lab leaders asked Washington to slow AI down, and Trump's team told them nobody is stopping them.
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A mathematician cries over AI's math wins
Steven Strogatz on the week AI cracked problems his field spent decades loving, and what that costs the people who loved them.
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