2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (374+ words) Oriol Vinyals, until recently VP of Research at Google DeepMind, sees recursive self-improvement in AI systems as inevitable but slow, with no intelligence explosion in sight. He's now launching a startup to tackle the two biggest bottlenecks holding it back....

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (144+ words) the-decoder.com Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Internally, the team knew the AI alignment problem was not solved and "there were far too few people working on the problem." After…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (220+ words) the-decoder.com AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News The idea that AI could wipe out humanity has officially gone mainstream. Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (451+ words) After mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of misconduct, all parties have now gone on the record. The case raises hard questions for open science. The dispute over OpenAI's claimed AI-generated result on the Navier-Stokes equations has drawn public statements from…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (356+ words) Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on pretraining research for large AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit Anthropic. His accusation is that both companies are gambling with the survival of the human race. Anthropic employee Evan Hubinger…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (414+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster describes how OpenAI pressured him after information about his AI-assisted research leaked, tried to remove his co-author from the paper, and threatened him. Tristan Buckmaster and his co-author Levent Alpöge used AI models to make major progress…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (489+ words) OpenAI is releasing internal data showing how much AI agents now drive its own model development, and it says it has hit a self-set milestone on the path toward self-improving AI. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki pairs that with an unusually…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux poured some gas on the hype fire. Astra was probably OpenAI's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (347+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections - OpenAI's new model GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injection attacks. - Astra also resists jailbreaks more effectively,…...