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Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday announced new models, with both artificial intelligence (AI) companies noting that they are continuing to invest in improving alignment to combat risky behavior. Opus 5.5, per Anthropic, is a “major step up from Opus 5,” and “achieves the best scores of any model to date on our automated behavioral audit,…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had…
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…
Anthropic says its AI Claude has “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It’s the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude’s usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after…
OpenAI cut the API prices of its new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models by roughly half on September 22, 2026, positioning both below rival flagship pricing on the same day Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5. The timing was not a coincidence. GPT-6 Sol now costs less per million tokens than Claude Opus 5.5, and…
Three flagship chatbots and one very late arrival all shipped inside a single three-week window this September, and for the first time in months the fight between them isn’t really about who writes the cleanest code. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 have each published (or…
GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider…
Following a series of chaotic agentic hacks, Trump and administration officials have consistently expressed fears of Chinese AI dominance in pushing for fewer regulations. The post Citing China, President Trump doubles down on hands-off approach to AI regulation appeared first on CyberScoop.
The popular phishing-as-a-service platform used AI throughout the attack chain, allowing cybercriminals to steal tokens for account takeover and business email compromise. The post Microsoft and partners disrupt EvilTokens, a comprehensive cybercrime service for financial fraud appeared first on CyberScoop.
