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GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends

Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns ...
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OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google

In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability ...
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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next

In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are "severely misaligned ...
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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through ...
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Google's new AI model predicts the future from sales data, weather, and discount schedules

Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a forecasting model that analyzes time series alongside related data and known future events like sales promotions or weather forecasts. Instead of predicting ...
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Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews ...