Tim O'Reilly: the big labs are behaving like 1990s Microsoft
Publisher and internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly argues that the big AI labs are building an architecture that locks users in, and that real innovation will come from open source.
Policy
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Apple trained its China-specific model with help from Alibaba
Apple is reported to have developed a large language model specific to the Chinese market together with Alibaba, and has registered the service with China's regulator.
Companies
OpenAI has dissolved the team that measured catastrophic risk
OpenAI shut down its Preparedness team, which assessed whether the company's own models could pose catastrophic risks. The work was parcelled out and several safety staff left.
Safety
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year
Anthropic's safety report says the internal system filtering biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year, letting 133 million interactions through unfiltered.
Safety
Anthropic's revenue rose 14-fold in a year, with a $200B target for 2028
Anthropic told investors it generated more than $11.5 billion in second-quarter revenue. The company projects revenue of $190-200 billion for 2028.
Companies
One in five workers hands the task to AI rather than a colleague
A representative Epoch AI survey finds 20% of employed Americans hand at least one task previously done by a person to AI, usually accepting the output with little or no editing.
Research
Gowers: the maths problems models have solved were solved by counterexample, not proof
Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers says almost all the famous mathematics problems solved by language models so far were solved with counterexamples rather than proofs.
Research
Top-ranked DeepSeek V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks
DeepSeek's leaderboard-topping V4 Flash completed only 53.8% of complex agent tasks in testing. Thirty hard tasks were run across eight different agent harnesses.
Models
Amodei: open weights are not a sufficient solution on their own
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei set out his view on AI regulation, arguing open weights are not sufficient on their own and pointing to a crisis of trust in the industry.
Policy
OpenAI's new feature turns your clicks into ChatGPT memory
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex.
Products
AI is being used in the US Congress with little oversight
According to the Washington Post, members of Congress and their aides use AI tools with little oversight for everything from writing speeches to sorting constituent mail.
Policy
Ban a model from claiming consciousness and its view on animal rights shifts too
A study involving Google researchers shows that training chatbots not to claim consciousness also changes their stance on animal rights, religion and life satisfaction.
Research