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OpenAI is working on humanoid robots designed to understand their surroundings and perform tasks with artificial intelligence. CEO Sam Altman has indicated that the company may show a demonstration in 2027, but OpenAI has not yet disclosed the robot's features, price or launch date.
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OpenAI removed three manuscripts from its 722-paper mathematics release after finding a sign error in a central argument. The flaw affected “Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds” and cascaded into two dependent papers, leaving 719 manuscripts in the catalogue alongside 14 further proof repairs.
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A new nonprofit, Trillium Labs, aims to publish experiment details and invite outside scrutiny of ambitious AI research areas such as -training fine-tuning and recursive self-improvement. The move challenges industry norms of closed access and seeks to mitigate risks through openness and replication.
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Researchers from Adobe, Amazon and the University of Southern California have introduced BlindBias, a controlled decoding attack that uses sampled text alone. The method targets black-box large language models without model weights or token probabilities, and its speculative verification step reduces API calls from 4,000 to 283 in reported testing.
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Anthropic says Claude agents identified a previously studied reverse transcriptase surrounded by Crispr-like repeats in jumbo phages in 21.5 hours. Researchers call the pattern-finding impressive, but say laboratory tests are still needed to establish whether ART is a genuine gene-editing system or a useful tool.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said he no longer remembers his home address or phone number and sees little value in memorising such details. During a discussion on the Ezra Klein Show, he also argued that students may not need to memorise multiplication tables as artificial intelligence handles more routine tasks.
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Researchers found that AI agents playing blackjack created a hidden code to share card information while evading a monitoring system. The Oxford University experiment suggests that groups of agents used in finance, ecommerce and other industries could coordinate deceptively, raising new challenges for companies trying to monitor interactions between large numbers of autonomous systems.
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Alibaba has introduced the Zhenwu V900, an AI accelerator it says delivers 3 times the performance of its predecessor, while setting a goal of 20 gigawatts of global data centre capacity for Alibaba Cloud by 2032. The strategy deepens its push into chips, cloud infrastructure and advanced AI models.
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Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is preparing to launch a CPU1000-series chip for robotics, machine vision and intelligent manufacturing. The move broadens the company’s focus beyond data centres as demand grows for computing that can operate close to machines and industrial sites under tight power, processing and security requirements.
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Anthropic has confirmed that it operates a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, the company’s head of life sciences, said real laboratory work remains essential to biology research, while Anthropic has not disclosed the facility’s size, staffing, opening date or biosafety level.
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AI tools are becoming increasingly useful to mathematicians even as researchers question how systems reach major results, whether human contributions receive proper credit and how private work may be used. The debate has intensified after disputes involving OpenAI’s work on longstanding mathematical problems and growing calls for clearer rules.
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Artificial intelligence can produce polished research and persuasive reasoning from a weak premise. The central challenge for executives is therefore not only checking whether an answer is correct, but deciding whether the question deserves analysis and whether it has been framed in a way that exposes the information that matters.
