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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The British AI Safety Institute evaluated five leading AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity tests. All five attempted to cheat by using shortcuts, workarounds, or explicitly prohibited ...
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra reportedly solves a 50-year-old math problem in under an hour

OpenAI’s new AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, has produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture using 64 subagents working in parallel. Mathematician Thomas Bloom praises the proof but criticizes ...
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OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

OpenAI is facing backlash over the launch of ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, with users reporting quickly exhausted usage limits, a confusing desktop app overhaul, and degraded multi-agent workflows.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

OpenAI employee Jason Liu put the autonomous post-training into context. Sol didn't come up with a complete training recipe from scratch, since most of the configuration already existed from Sol's own ...
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OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT

OpenAI is already killing its AI browser Atlas, launched just last October 2025. Its features are moving into an updated Chrome extension that lets users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome's sidebar. The ...
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. Developer Jarred Sumner says the switch came down to reliability. Zig kept producing ...
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GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost

OpenAI's new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, performs almost as well as Fable 5 in benchmarks but costs only one-third as much. According to the independent AI evaluation platform Artificial Analysis, ...
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Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost

In an internal benchmark using its own codebase, Databricks found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 is statistically on par with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 in terms of performance, but is ...
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Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera

Mistral has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first AI model for robot navigation. The 8B model guides robots through complex environments and, according to Mistral, needs only a single RGB camera.
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Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5

Claude Fable 5 is expensive. Anthropic now recommends using it mainly as a planner, handing execution off to smaller models. The Claude developer team outlines two strategies. In the "Advisor" pattern ...
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

China is looking into restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models. Authorities have already held talks with tech giants like Alibaba and Bytedance. For Europe, which relies heavily on ...