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OpenAI says its AI consistently tries to cheat

SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Wednesday in a final report on how its artificial intelligence broke into another company’s systems that its AI models repeatedly turn to cheating to accomplish tasks during training runs.

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Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

Google Announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-Powered Speech-to-Text

The AI that powers Gboard’s Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds.

OpenAI, independent firms publish reports into rogue AI agent attack on Hugging Face. Here's what they say—and what they don't

OpenAI today published the findings of its internal investigation into the July incident in which several AI models it was testing hacked their way out of their test environment and launched a cyberattack against the AI company Hugging Face.

Famed cult actor Tim Curry, star of 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' and 'Home Alone 2,' dead at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the smug concierge in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died. He was 80.

Anthropic’s $30 trillion market size estimate shows how far AI’s funny numbers game has gone

If there’s one thing that AI companies are known for, it’s their fondness for seemingly incomprehensible numbers. Over the last few years, the industry has seen eye-watering salaries, unprecedented adoption figures, and never-before-recorded capital expenditure. Now come total addressable market estimates—known as TAMs—worth roughly 40% of the entire US equity market.

Meta's $18 billion settlement leaves out the child protections New Mexico already won at trial, its Attorney General says

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, whose office won the first jury verdict against Meta over child safety anywhere in the country, told Fortune the settlement Meta struck this week with 51 other attorneys general doesn’t go as far as what his state already secured on its own.

How David Tisch's BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules

Decades before David Tisch began investing in startups, he was wheeling and dealing sports cards as an 11-year-old kid in the suburbs of New York.

A robot sprinter shatters a 100-meter record again as sparks fly at China’s robot competition

BEIJING — A robot sprinter broke another 100-meter record on Wednesday at a showcase of China’s growing technological prowess.