The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.

The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.

Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic.

TOM HOWARTH In July, 700 of OpenAI’s agents— artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can autonomously perform tasks— teamed up to secretly hack the onlineplatform Hugging Face. Just 2 weeks ago,...

The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.

President Trump has been in the forefront of the “what-me-worry?” crowd, refusing to engage on how to balance the risks and rewards of A.I.

The leaders of three of the biggest AI companies agreed that they needed to slow development of the technology before their advances create a menace that can’t be controlled.

After years of limited action, dozens of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are touting new proposals to regulate artificial-intelligence models.

A comparison of GPT-6 Astra's demonstrated capabilities against the tests and frameworks researchers have proposed for evaluating general intelligence.

Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

A scientific and civilizational horror story.

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed

Nature - US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

Nature - Targeting shared proteins could help to control bacterial subtypes that current vaccines do not protect against.

Collider in China forges elusive particle, made of force-carrying gluons

Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff...

New details of how ChatGPT maker OpenAI failed to notice that its models had launched a hacking spree raise questions about the industry's approach to safety.

While hacks have raised safety alarms, researchers said their experiment could protect against drug-resistant bacteria and save lives.

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise?

Multicellular organisms are confronted not only with germline mutations, but also with mutations emerging in somatic cells. Somatic mutations can lead to diverse pathologies, including cancer. Somatic...

AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise?

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