Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Two governments are funding a deliberate bet against the industry's method. Canada is putting up to C$150 million and Germany up to €100 million into Yoshua Bengio's non-profit to build Scientist AI — a system designed to have no goals of its own, and trained without reinforcement learning.
Government of Canada
Read more →Anthropic has signed its first Australian data-centre lease, taking the opening stage of a A$32 billion campus on the Darling Downs. It will not own or build the site, it will serve Claude from it rather than train there — and at full size the park would lift Queensland's daily electricity use by about a quarter.
ABC News
Read more →A Sydney bitcoin miner turned AI data centre builder is on a global roadshow for what would be the second-largest IPO in Australian history. OpenAI has already signed for two of its Malaysian sites; no prospectus has been filed yet.
ABC News
Read more →Google’s new speech-to-speech pair takes the top of the Artificial Analysis quality index — and the cheaper sibling runs at about a seventh of GPT-Live-1 Astra’s hourly cost. Both reason in the background without stopping the conversation.
Portable Computer runs the model, harness, orchestrator and scheduler entirely on your own machine, burns no Perplexity credits, and asks before anything reaches the cloud. The catch is a 24GB VRAM floor that rules out almost every consumer PC.
NVIDIA
Read more →Shanghai AI Laboratory dropped a 744-billion-parameter, MIT-licensed agent model on GitHub with no announcement at all — then published a 143-author technical report three days later. It tops five of 16 benchmarks and trails Claude Opus 5 badly on code.
arXiv
Read more →Leaked documents describe Project Lily, an OpenAI effort that pays hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and score the replies. Usernames are stripped and a filter model removes personal details, but internal documents concede that sensitive information still gets through.
404 Media
Read more →Anthropic’s Opus 5 is now available to engineers across Google, but only inside Antigravity, the company’s internal build of its development platform. Access had been limited to parts of DeepMind and a handful of high-priority projects. Gemini stays the primary model, and Claude arrives on a per-user quota.
Business Insider
Read more →A Lean-checked proof of a conjecture open since the 1990s went up on GitHub this week, found start to finish by GPT-6 Pro. Its own author says no human has digested it. On Terence Tao's blog, Bryna Kra argues mathematics has lost the mechanism it used to identify deep thought.
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Read more →Dario Amodei asked the industry to pace itself and got three chief executives to agree inside 48 hours. Then the two governments that would have to make it stick answered. Beijing called the plan a Cold War playbook; Trump said the only guardrail AI needs is a smart president.
NBC News
Read more →Anthropic has announced no Fable 5.2, and no Opus 5.1 or 5.2 either: the docs list four current models and nothing newer. The rumour rests on a single X account whose first date already passed. But the company has shipped six frontier models since April at a median gap of 24 days, which puts the next one due right about now.
Anthropic model documentation
Read more →Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its in-house models that requires them never to resist correction or shutdown, to communicate understandably, and to treat any breach of the code as a failure. Mustafa Suleyman calls it a constitution of sorts. It also states flatly that the AI is not conscious and deserves no rights.
The Globe and Mail
Read more →iOS 27 arrives today alongside iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and macOS 27, carrying the public debut of Siri AI — the assistant overhaul Apple first promised in 2024 and has slipped on ever since. It is built on a Google Gemini deal, it needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and it launches in English only, with the EU and China left out.
Engadget
Read more →Four days before Dreamforce, Salesforce shipped seven named Agentforce agents — Casey, Paige, Carter, Marshall, Piper, Fin and Hunter — six generally available and one in pilot. The pilot is the interesting one: Hunter runs on a new long-horizon runtime built to chase a goal for weeks rather than a chat.
Salesforce
Read more →Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday arguing the industry must deliberately slow capability gains, and committed Anthropic to giving outside evaluators badges, desks and employee-level access. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within a day, Satya Nadella followed on Sunday — and on Monday Asian chip stocks sold the consensus.
Dario Amodei
Read more →The Tokyo lab shipped two orchestrators on September 11: a cost-first Fugu Max at $2 per million input tokens, and a capability-first Ultra v2 that takes best or joint-best on five of eight benchmarks with Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra deliberately kept out of its pool.
Sakana AI
Read more →GreyNoise reconstructed a ten-day campaign in which hundreds of AI agents researched, built and sprayed exploits for two PaperCut flaws — 440 servers across 48 countries, education taking half the hits, and one high school losing domain admin seven minutes after the first foothold.
GreyNoise
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The same three build briefs, one attempt each, no browser — but handed to the middle of each lab’s range instead of the top. Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Terra both broke the same fairground ride in the same new way, and one of them shipped a game that never runs. All six builds are live in the article.
BitsMinds Lab
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Its most detailed threat report yet: a cell in northern Yemen used Claude Code as its engineering team to write missile guidance software, then test-fired a rocket that failed and came back within hours to ask why. Anthropic disrupted every operation — but that cell had already packaged an offline toolkit.
Anthropic
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Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol got the same three build briefs — a playable Pac-Man, an animated seaside fairground and a motorway interchange — one attempt each, with no browser to check their own work. All six builds run live in the article: play both games, watch the rest, and see which one holds up.
BitsMinds Lab
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The Reno chipmaker closed $875 million across two tranches at a $5 billion post-money valuation, betting that commodity phone memory beats HBM for inference. Its next chip, Asimov, carries up to 2,304 GB and does not tape out until the end of the year.
PR Newswire
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The harness behind Codex is now a public-beta API. OpenAI runs the agent loop, context compaction and subagent orchestration; developers supply the tools and pick where code executes — an OpenAI sandbox, their own VPC, or one of nine partners.
OpenAI
Read more →The RLHF co-inventor who founded the Alignment Research Center joins the committee that governs safety and security across all of OpenAI — and becomes a non-voting observer on the for-profit board.
OpenAI
Read more →Suno’s v6 generation was trained from scratch on catalogue licensed from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, and every older Suno model is being retired. Universal and Sony are still suing.
Suno
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