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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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OpenAI reshuffles leadership as health issues force key executives to step back

Several leadership changes are underway at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, CEO of the newly created "AGI Deployment" division, is taking sick leave for several weeks to deal with an autoimmune disease affecting ...
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AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find

AI safety research firm Lyptus Research has published a new study on the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of AI models. The study is based on the METR time-horizon method and involved testing with ...
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Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to peak-hour caps and ballooning contexts

Anthropic has looked into complaints from users who were hitting their Claude Code usage limits much faster than expected. According to Anthropic's Lydia Hallie, tighter limits during peak hours and ...
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Anthropic leak reveals new model "Claude Mythos" with "dramatically higher scores on tests" than any previous model

The leaked blog posts have allegedly surfaced online; the information matches what Fortune shared in a follow-up article. There are two versions of the same blog post that only differ in the model's ...
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Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work

Microsoft is making "Copilot Cowork" more widely available and launching a new AI research agent. The previously announced feature builds on Claude Cowork and lets the system handle multi-step tasks ...
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OpenAI and Anthropic before the IPO: Different balance sheets make comparison difficult

Anthropic and OpenAI are both growing fast, but they report revenue very differently, The Information reports. OpenAI's annualized revenue is around $25 billion; Anthropic's is $19 billion. Both ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: AI chatbot traffic grows seven times faster than social media but still trails by a factor of four Social media still pulls in four times more traffic than AI chatbot services ...
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Microsoft brings Anthropic's Claude Cowork into Copilot to run tasks across Outlook, Teams, and Excel

Microsoft has integrated Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology into Copilot. The new feature lets Microsoft 365 handle tasks more autonomously: users describe what they want done, and Cowork builds a ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...