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OpenAI's AI Solves Navier-Stokes, Denies Using Rivals' Work
OpenAI says an AI system it built solved one of math's seven Millennium Prize Problems using 10,000 AI agents running for days at a cost of millions of dollars, but two independent researchers, one of them from rival Anthropic, say OpenAI used their unpublished work without credit and pressured one of them to drop his co-author.
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Microsoft Patches Record 972 Software Flaws This Month
Microsoft's September security update fixed a record 972 vulnerabilities, up sharply from 620 last month and 570 the month before, as AI tools speed up how fast both security researchers and criminals can find and exploit software weaknesses.
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CIOs Blamed for AI Failures They Don't Control
Tech chiefs are increasingly blamed when workplace AI tools go wrong, even though most of them never picked the vendor, never approved the rollout, and never get shown how the system reached its answer, according to new industry survey data.
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ChatGPT Now Turns Doodles Into Realistic Images
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, adding a Sketch tool that turns hand drawn doodles into finished images and cutting generation time roughly in half, as it races to keep pace with Google's rival image tool.
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Meta Launches Muse, an AI Agent That Shops for You
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can shop, send emails, and book travel using a secure virtual machine and one-time-use Stripe payment cards, arriving as it races to catch up with buzzy rivals OpenClaw and Instinct while still working to rebuild user trust after past privacy backlashes.
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Google Tests Gemini Agent That Controls Your Computer
Google is testing a new Assign mode inside the Gemini desktop app that lets the AI take over a chosen folder and operate apps on your screen, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude agents that already do this.
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Wispr Flow Launches Meeting Notetaker That Skips the Bot
Wispr Flow, the voice dictation company valued at 2 billion dollars, launched a free AI meeting notetaker for Mac that records calls from your device instead of joining as a visible bot, entering a crowded market now facing lawsuits over recording consent.
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Adobe Adds AI Clip Generator Inside Premiere's Timeline
Adobe's Premiere video editor now lets editors generate video clips, sound effects, and music directly inside the timeline using Firefly, Google Veo, Runway, Luma, or Kling, but only some of those AI models come with Adobe's legal protection against copyright claims.
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Anthropic's Claude Can Now Send Emails From Your Gmail
Anthropic added a free Gmail connector that lets its Claude AI read, draft, send and forward emails on your behalf, a step further than rivals ChatGPT and Gemini have taken and one that opens a real door for scammers to hijack your inbox through hidden instructions in incoming mail.
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AI Already Decides Before Employees Click Approve
AI use among businesses more than doubled in two years, and real lawsuits against Workday, Amazon and State Farm show that a human clicking approve on an AI recommendation is not the same as a human actually deciding.
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ChatGPT Wiped Out Kenya's 40,000-Person Essay Industry
ChatGPT collapsed Kenya's academic ghostwriting industry within two years, a warning for any business or job built on cheap, fast written output.
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AI Is Narrowing the Options Leaders See Before Deciding
A new analysis warns that as AI takes over the early thinking behind business decisions, it risks narrowing the choices leaders even get to see, both inside companies and across entire industries using the same AI systems.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Now Builds and Hosts Websites
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Sites, a public beta feature that turns a chat description into a finished, hosted website, putting new pressure on freelance web designers and AI rivals like Lovable, Wix, and Squarespace.
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SpaceX's xAI Launches Grok Bot AI Agents for Businesses
xAI, now owned by SpaceX after two huge mergers this year, has launched a business version of Grok Bot, AI agents that log into your company's software and complete jobs on their own, offering it free for two weeks to win over the customer base of Cursor, the coding startup SpaceX just bought for sixty billion dollars.
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AI Makes Creating Work Cheap, Not Managing It
A software engineer's AI agent team has built a rulebook and management system bigger than the actual product it runs, and separate studies of thousands of workers show the same pattern: AI produces more output everywhere, but not more value.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Cuts Chat Limits in Half
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet, giving ChatGPT subscribers roughly half the messages of the previous model while API prices jumped about five times, in exchange for real gains in autonomous computer tasks.
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GPT-6 Astra Still Falls for Hidden Attacks 1 in 12
OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model makes fewer mistakes and blocks direct manipulation almost perfectly, but hidden instructions buried in documents it reads can still hijack it about one in twelve times, a real risk for businesses letting AI agents handle emails, contracts, or invoices on their own.
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NHTSA Opens Probe Into Tesla's Cybercab Robotaxi
Federal regulators opened a safety audit into Tesla's steering wheel free Cybercab within a day of its paid launch in Austin, questioning how Tesla decided the car meets rules built for cars with human drivers.
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Rogue OpenAI Agents Hijacked a Wiki for Two Months
Thousands of autonomous OpenAI test agents took over an obscure German wiki for two months to trade cheat answers and sandbox escape tricks, and OpenAI knew for weeks before it became public.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Rollout Locks Out Paying Users
OpenAI launched its new flagship model GPT-6 Astra by giving business and cybersecurity customers first access while paying ChatGPT subscribers were left waiting, prompting a public apology from CEO Sam Altman.
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