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Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...
GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (929+ words) Andon Labs tested GPT-6 Astra on two very different agent benchmarks. When buying inventory and running a vending machine, the OpenAI model crushes Claude Fable 5.1. On drone surveillance, Astra is the first model to beat the human-AI baseline on all…...
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (204+ words) the-decoder.com Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO…...
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time OpenAI is making GPT-Live-1 available to developers as an API. The speech model can listen and talk at the same time, a feature…...
Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
3+ day, 23+ 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…...
Swarmchasers" hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (934+ words) Independent investigators are finding more traces of suspected OpenAI agents on public services. Anthropic is now rating its own incidents more harshly. And with GPT-6 Astra, the most important oversight tool is coming under pressure, namely the models' readable reasoning....
GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (261+ words) OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the ErdosBench for open math problems, even though chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company didn't prioritize math. That says something about where "AGI" actually stands. Mathematicians can take a brief (likely very brief) breather after…...
Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (724+ words) Meta's new agent Muse is built to handle tasks on its own, from booking travel to shopping. It runs on its own virtual machine and you control it through WhatsApp. Users can hand Muse simple jobs like sending an email…...
Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (256+ words) the-decoder.com Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation Nvidia and Palantir want to run supply chains with AI. The first deployment target is Nvidia's own supply chain, which spans…...
AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News
4+ day, 5+ 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…...