On Wednesday, Anthropic began merging Claude Cowork and Claude chat into one Claude: “You don’t have to choose where a task goes.” Continue Reading →
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The internet has a new favorite toy, and it is a flybrain scheme. Earlier this month, HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Google Research, and their collaborators published research describing the first complete wiring diagram of an entire male fruit fly central nervous system. Continue Reading →
Microsoft AI published its "Humanist AI Code of Conduct," a draft governing document for the models it builds. Continue Reading →
Frontier models are about to become the most powerful cyber weapons ever built. Governments around the world have figured this out, and their posture toward AI has changed accordingly. A model that can read code, find flaws, write exploits, and chain them together at machine speed is a weapon in every sense of the word. Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →
Two AI science stories broke yesterday. OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (which describe how fluids move, from blood circulation to weather) can develop a singularity in finite time. Continue Reading →
This is a working paper, not a finished theory. I am trying to understand when a population of bounded agents begins to function as something more like an organization. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident gave me a concrete case to study. I would welcome criticism of the argument, challenges to the terminology, contrary evidence, relevant research I have missed, better experimental designs, and examples that weaken or strengthen the thesis. Continue Reading →
Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” The rollout starts with a limited set of organizations and will expand over the coming days to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock. At a media briefing, OpenAI president Greg Brockman closed by saying, “Welcome to the AGI era.” Continue Reading →
Here are the facts: On September 2, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence in the city’s public schools for the 2026-27 school year. The moratorium covers children from 2-K through eighth grade and applies to all software that uses student-facing generative AI. City Hall said the policy will affect nearly 600,000 students, which is about two-thirds of the public-school system’s enrollment. New York City operates the largest public-school system in the United States. Continue Reading →
OpenAI announced that healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic electronic health record (EHR) environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare. Clinicians can ask what changed since a patient's last visit, which lab results to review before an appointment, and whether there were medication changes or new specialist recommendations; ChatGPT then assembles the answer from the authorized patient record and points back to the supporting chart information. Continue Reading →