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OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce by 2026 as it ramps up enterprise push

The AI lab wants to grow from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reports, citing two people familiar with the plans. Most new hires will go into product development, ...
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95% of UK students now use AI and their experiences couldn't be more divided

According to a recent HEPI survey, 95 percent of UK undergraduates now use generative AI, with a growing number incorporating AI-generated text directly into exam submissions. Student opinion is split ...
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Hollywood copyright complaints force Bytedance to shelve global launch of AI video generator Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has reportedly shelved the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after a wave of copyright complaints from major Hollywood studios, a sign of just how convincing AI-generated ...
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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

A broad coalition is backing Anthropic in its legal fight with the US Department of Defense. Microsoft, dozens of OpenAI and Google employees, former military leaders, and civil rights organizations ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Claude now available directly in PowerPoint for Pro users

Anthropic brings Claude's PowerPoint integration to Pro subscribers. Max, Team, and Enterprise customers get access too. The feature is currently in beta as a Research Preview. Claude can create, edit ...
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OpenAI's Deep Research now runs on GPT-5.2 and lets users search specific websites

OpenAI has upgraded Deep Research in ChatGPT. The feature now runs on the new GPT-5.2 model, as OpenAI announced on X. A key addition is that users can connect apps to ChatGPT and—potentially very ...
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Malicious skills turn AI agent OpenClaw into a malware delivery system

Hundreds of skills for the AI agent OpenClaw were infected with malware, after attackers disguised Trojans and data-stealing software as useful extensions on the ClawHub platform. Following the ...
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Former OpenAI researcher says current AI models can't learn from mistakes, calling it a barrier to AGI

Jerry Tworek, one of the minds behind OpenAI's reasoning models, sees a fundamental problem with current AI: it can't learn from mistakes. "If they fail, you get kind of hopeless pretty quickly," ...
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A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
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OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) and Moltbook let attackers walk through the front door

OpenClaw lets attackers extract system prompts and configurations with almost no effort. Moltbook's entire database—including API keys—is sitting exposed on the public network. Developer Lucas ...
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Google Deepmind pioneer David Silver departs to found AI startup, betting LLMs alone won't reach superintelligence

Google Deepmind loses one of its leading AI researchers as David Silver departs, adding to growing skepticism that current language models alone can achieve superintelligence. Silver was one of the AI ...