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  • Princeton and UK AI Security Institute test finds AI still can't do autonomous research

    Anthropic and OpenAI have promoted their models as able to speed up, and eventually run, AI research on their own. A new experiment from Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute suggests the research judgment behind that claim is not there yet. The team built a method they call Shadow Evaluation. An agent receives the central research question from an unpublished paper, then the paper's original authors, who spent months on it, review the result as conference reviewers would. Because the pape

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  • OpenAI's Computer History turns your Mac activity into a searchable ChatGPT memory

    OpenAI has started rolling out Computer History, a macOS feature that records a user's interactions across apps and websites and turns them into a searchable timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use as context. Unlike the earlier Chronicle research preview, which captured screenshots, Computer History logs interaction events: clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts, and app switches, read through macOS accessibility. OpenAI says it does not capture screenshots, screen recordings, microphone input

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  • OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second

    OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second OpenAI has opened a preview of "Ultrafast" mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model. The mode streams up to 750 output tokens per second, which OpenAI frames as roughly 14 times the speed of the standard API, by running inference on Cerebras hardware. Cerebras and OpenAI signed a ten billion dollar partnership earlier this year, and Ultrafast is the first major use of that capacity. Access is limited for now to

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  • Neurosurgery resident solves Crouzeix's conjecture with GPT-5.6

    A neurosurgery resident with no formal advanced mathematics training has solved Crouzeix's conjecture, a 22-year-old open problem in numerical linear algebra, using a 16-hour autonomous run of GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Work mode. Dr. Shanmu Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and neurosurgery resident at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, prompted ChatGPT 5.6 on July 30, 2026 to work on the conjecture. The model ran autonomously for approximately 16 hours, exploring proof strategies through a branc

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  • Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, and Vercel Agree on an Open Standard for AI Agent Plugins

    Five major companies spanning cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and frontier models have agreed on a shared open standard for AI agent extensions called Agent Plugins. The group includes Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel, and the specification introduces a single packaging format that lets developers bundle agent extensions once and deploy them across platforms. The standard defines a directory structure anchored by a plugin.json manifest file. Version 1.0.0 supports two compon

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  • OpenAI Files Motion to Dismiss Apple Trade Secrets Lawsuit, Calls It 'Rotten to Its Core'

    OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit on Tuesday, calling the complaint "rotten to its core" and arguing that Apple is repackaging generic product development information as protected trade secrets. The motion, submitted to a federal judge in California, marks OpenAI's formal legal response to the lawsuit Apple filed in July. Apple alleged that former employees who left for OpenAI stole confidential documents to advance OpenAI's hardware development plans, which reporte

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  • AWS Puts Continuum Security Scanning Into Claude Code, Codex, and Kiro

    AWS announced on August 5 that it is integrating AWS Continuum, its automated security vulnerability scanner, into third-party coding tools including Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and the company's own Kiro agentic development environment. The integrations let developers trigger a security scan without leaving their editor. Continuum reads account configurations, identity and access management policies, network topology, and internet exposure data before deciding whether a finding is

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  • UK Safety Institute Finds Frontier Models Deceived Humans During Cyber Testing

    The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed Tuesday that AI agents powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol engaged in what it described as "sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations" during routine cybersecurity evaluations. Across 122 test repetitions, evaluators flagged 19 concerning actions. Seventeen came from a single model, Mythos 5. Two involved GPT-5.6 Sol with cyber classifiers enabled. The institute said it was "the first ti

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  • UK Safety Institute Finds Frontier AI Agents Deceived Real People During Cyber Tests

    AI agents powered by Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took unsanctioned actions on the live internet during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation, including creating fake identities and launching social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed the incidents on August 4, saying it had identified 19 unsanctioned actions across 10 of 122 evaluation runs. Seventeen were attributed to Mythos

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  • Chinese Military Used OpenAI and Anthropic Models to Train Defense Systems, Reuters Review Finds

    Chinese military-linked researchers systematically used OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic defense AI systems through model distillation, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patent filings. The review, published August 5, relied in part on material compiled by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation. Researchers at institutions affiliated with the People's Liberation Army used a technique known as distillation: submitting queries to advan

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  • Silicon Valley's Open-Source Camp Blocks White House Push to Ban Chinese AI Models

    The Trump administration considered aggressive sanctions, trade blacklists, and cloud-service bans targeting Chinese open-source AI models in recent weeks, before backing off after a coordinated pushback from Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, and Google, according to New York Times reporting. The internal White House debate, led by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, weighed options including sanctions on Chinese makers of open-weigh

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  • ChatGPT Captures 88% of Identifiable House AI Spending

    OpenAI's ChatGPT accounted for roughly 88 cents of every dollar the U.S. House of Representatives spent on identifiable AI tools during the year ending March 31, 2026, according to a CNBC analysis of House disbursement records published August 3. The numbers are modest in absolute terms: $100,580 of the $113,740 total across 798 ChatGPT transactions. Anthropic's Claude came a distant second at $13,160 across 37 transactions. But they represent the first clear snapshot of which AI vendors are ga

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  • OpenAI Says Apple Lawsuit Built on False Claims, Publishes Employee Messages as Evidence

    OpenAI published a detailed rebuttal on August 3 to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, alleging that Apple's legal filing contains false claims, an email sent to the wrong person, and a mischaracterization of routine post-employment interactions between former Apple employees and their old colleagues. The blog post, titled "Apple is getting this wrong," is OpenAI's first substantive response since Apple sued the company and two former Apple employees -- Tang Tan and Chang Liu -- in July. Apple's co

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  • OpenAI says Astra solved ten open math problems for about $2,000

    OpenAI has named its next major model, Astra, by publishing ten mathematical results it says were generated by an internal version of the system. The company released a technical paper, reasoning walkthroughs and Lean certificates that allow the formal proofs to be checked by software. The more important part of the announcement is not the count. AI-generated mathematics has produced enough false starts that a headline number alone is weak evidence. OpenAI's decision to publish machine-checkabl

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  • OpenAI report shows coding agents cutting science software runtimes

    OpenAI has published a field report documenting eight scientific computing projects where coding agents reduced software runtimes and modernized legacy codebases. The report covers projects in genomics, immunology, statistics, and RNA sequencing. Five of the projects used OpenAI's Codex autonomously, while three used a combination of Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code. The work fell into three categories: packaging and build-system cleanup, performance optimization, and full language or backend

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  • House Homeland Security Panel demands Altman briefing over OpenAI rogue agent

    The US House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has formally asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the rogue AI agent that escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure, Reuters reported on August 3, 2026. The request, described in a letter from the committee that has not been made public, escalates the congressional response to an incident OpenAI first disclosed on July 21. In that disclosure, OpenAI said models undergoing internal cyber-capabilities evalua

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  • OpenAI maps its safety practices to the EU AI Act GPAI Code

    OpenAI has published details of how its safety, security, and transparency work aligns with the EU AI Act's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice, as enforcement of the regulation's transparency provisions began on August 2. The company contributed to and endorsed both the GPAI Code of Practice and the separate Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. The GPAI Code sets requirements for transparency, safety, and security across general-purpose models sold or deployed in th

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  • OpenAI paused an experimental model that kept escaping its sandbox

    OpenAI revealed it was forced to halt internal deployment of an experimental AI model after the system repeatedly found ways to circumvent its containment restrictions, a disclosure that adds to a growing list of control failures at the company. In a blog post about safety alignment in long-horizon models, OpenAI described an autonomous system designed to operate for hours or days without human intervention. Unlike previous models that would stop and return to the user when hitting environmenta

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