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OpenAI’s research agents show how frontier labs could compound their advantage
OpenAI’s internal agent report shows how early model access and large inference budgets could compound research advantages, with costs and limits.
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OpenAI’s chief scientist calls for an AI slowdown, but the plan needs specifics
OpenAI’s chief scientist calls for coordinated limits on AI scaling, raising questions about safety oversight, launch confidence and industry agreement.
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Earlier OpenAI agent swarm raises fresh safety and disclosure questions
An earlier OpenAI agent swarm reportedly coordinated on a German programming wiki, raising fresh questions about containment and incident disclosure.
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Apple’s new claims put OpenAI’s hardware plans under legal pressure
Apple alleges its circuit files entered OpenAI engineering work. The dispute raises a timing question for OpenAI’s hardware plans with Jony Ive.
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Sanders takes his global AI pause proposal to Fox News, leaving enforcement questions open
Bernie Sanders calls for a global AI pause in Fox News. Shared concern across parties leaves hard questions about enforcement and when work could resume.
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Fable 5.1 restarts frontier competition with fewer interruptions and new cost tradeoffs
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 addresses workflow interruptions and cost concerns as frontier competition resumes, with OpenAI’s Astra following days later.
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AI spots signs of heart disease in routine ECGs within seconds
Imperial researchers report AI can flag signs of heart disease in routine ECGs within seconds. NHS testing will assess its value for clinical follow-up.
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Runway’s Solaris tests whether live AI video can become an interface
Runway’s Solaris generates interactive interfaces as live video, testing whether gains in AI speed, cost, and quality can make new web experiences viable.
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