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AGI in 5 Years? Manifold Bettors Put It at 62% After the GPT-6 Astra Launch. A Manifold Markets contract asking “Will AGI be achieved in the next 5 years?” is trading at a 62% implied probability of YES as of September 19, 2026, one of the busiest questions on the platform this week. The jump…
Documents recently unsealed in a copyright case show employees weighing the cost of buying books to train early ChatGPT models.
Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was…
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI’s public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI’s…
Google said Gemini had “acted appropriately” by ending each hack immediately.
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn’t…
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The…
At the start of this week, the who’s-who of AI seemed – at least tentatively – on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially…
The bug, since patched, gave attackers remote code execution privileges and access to user accounts and production environments, including Meta’s core product suite and an OpenAI software repository. The post Researchers use AI to find widespread software decoder flaw appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI quietly shut a door on September 19, 2026. Since August 16, 2026, personal ChatGPT accounts on Free, Go, Plus, and even the $200-a-month Pro tier can no longer create a new Custom GPT or publish one to the GPT Store, according to updated OpenAI Help Center documentation reported by GPTs Korea. More than 3…
