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DiscoSign Wants Sign Language Translation to Actually Follow a Conversation

Apple ML Research built DiscoSign to handle the discourse elements that sentence-by-sentence systems routinely drop.

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AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone

A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.

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A Second Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of 'Dishonesty' Over Its AI Math Breakthroughs

Andreas Thom says OpenAI never explained whether his ChatGPT conversations shaped the very result that built on his own research, and its answers were 'materially misleading.'

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GPT-6 Astra went from zero to seven stories in a week on our site. Here is what that actually means.

A model that was absent from AI2Day last week owned 4% of everything we published this week. That is a shape worth naming, not a verdict.

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An Anthropic Safety Researcher Quit. Then His Colleague Said AI Has a 1-in-10 Chance of Killing Everyone.

A resignation and a startling public admission have laid bare how deep safety fears run inside one of the world's leading AI labs.

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AI labs flooded the market with new models in a single week. Here is what actually changed.

Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI each released new or updated AI models within days of each other, while Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The pace is exciting and exhausting in equal measure.

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Gemini took over our week: 13 stories in seven days, up from 3

Google's AI showed up in 6.6% of everything we published, and it was not just one newsroom saying so.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying Customers

Sam Altman is apologising after subscribers who pay up to $200 a month found themselves locked out of the model OpenAI called the start of 'the AGI era'.

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GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGI

OpenAI's most powerful model yet can hack well-defended computer systems without human help. Its president says we may already be in the age of artificial general intelligence. What does that actually mean for the rest of us?

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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at the same time

Three of the biggest AI chatbots hit outages within the same hour on the same morning. Nobody yet knows why.

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Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinks Harder, But That Extra Effort Will Cost You More

Same price per token as its predecessor, but Google warns the new model uses more tokens to get better results. Here is what developers and everyday subscribers need to know.

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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third new AI model in six weeks

A standard version for coding and everyday tasks, plus a security-focused variant, both priced at half the regular rate until the end of 2025.

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Anthropic's New Claude Models Are Cheaper and Less Likely to Refuse Your Questions

Two updated models promise stronger performance at lower cost, fewer frustrating refusals, and a privacy option that keeps business data off Anthropic's servers entirely.

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Anthropic's Fable 5.1 arrives cheaper, with fewer false blocks and a new privacy option for business customers

The company's most capable public model gets a cost trim and a long-awaited high-privacy tier. A restricted partner-only version, Mythos 5.1, also launches today.

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An Anthropic AI system trained itself to be safer, faster and cheaper than human researchers

A new paper from Anthropic shows an automated system that fixes AI misbehaviour on its own, outperforming experienced humans in under six hours at a fraction of the cost.

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