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Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data

Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and ...
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Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive ...
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Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists

Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a ...
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OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly ...
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Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model

Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and ...
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Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening

Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in ...
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OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words

OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, ...
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But when ...
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OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki

OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old ...
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Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while ...
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GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era.
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 ...