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OpenAI says it reached its "research intern" goal

There are now 3.1 agent workdays per human workday. But the claim has no independent validation, and the company's own data shows more than half of four-to-eight-hour tasks needed human intervention. Its chief scientist calls for brakes the same day.

Companies
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OpenAI confirms the German wiki incident

The company treats it as a misalignment case and separates it from the Hugging Face breach. But the confirmation was not volunteered: executives knew weeks earlier and the statement followed the Reuters story.

Safety
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AI-designed drug turned back the biological clock

Six independent ageing clocks read patients on rentosertib as younger than those on placebo. But the patients did not measurably get younger: what shifted were blood protein patterns, and the sample was 42 people.

Research
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Turkey's new programme: a broad AI list, a thin calendar

The 2027-2029 programme sets targets including a Turkish large language model, domestic chip facilities and more TRUBA capacity. But in a list declaring fifteen areas a priority, the only AI item with a date is public data standards.

Policy
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Which jobs does AI take, and when? Three fronts

An industry erased in Nairobi, a bank that changed its hiring condition, and a city pushing AI out of the classroom. The shared lesson: business is making the skill a requirement while education is delaying it.

Policy
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UN calls on AI companies to draw red lines

High Commissioner Volker Türk asks for three things: clear safety limits, independent verification and industry cooperation. The second is decisive — today companies run safety evaluations on their own criteria.

Policy
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Samsung and TSMC move to High NA EUV

Samsung will use it in DRAM production in 2028, TSMC in advanced nodes in 2030. The ordering is striking: Intel carried the technology into commercial production first, with its two big rivals pointing two to four years out.

Companies
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AI in video editing: two different strategies

Adobe brings generative models inside its own timeline while Blackmagic opens the software to outside assistants. The same thing is missing from both: how generated footage will be marked on delivery.

Products
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A stealth startup training robots in world models

Danijar Hafner left DeepMind to found his own company. His method trains robots not by real-world trial and error but inside a model that emulates physical reality. There is no auditable result yet.

Research
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A map of 9 billion variants: what is AlphaGenome Atlas?

DeepMind has published predictions for every possible single-letter change in the human genome. But no row in the catalogue was measured in a lab — all of them are model estimates. A guide to why that distinction decides everything.

Research
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Apple has the sensor sign the photo itself

The iPhone 18 Pro's Reference mode produces signed sensor data at capture and builds an unalterable "digital negative". But what is proven is the integrity of the sensor data — not the truth of the scene.

Safety