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Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who won't share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.

Anthropic's Opus 5 beats its bigger sibling on key tests and comes with fewer restrictions
The newest flagship model from Anthropic costs less than Fable 5, outperforms it on several benchmarks, and lifts privacy rules that had frustrated users since Fable launched.

OpenAI Said GPT-2 Was Too Dangerous to Release. Should We Have Believed It?
A researcher's old frustration with OpenAI's 2019 safety announcement raises a question still worth asking: when an AI company warns the world about its own technology, who really benefits?

AI guardrails built to stop hackers are now blocking the people trying to stop hackers
Security researchers say the safety filters on leading AI tools are inconsistent, frustrating, and pushing legitimate defenders toward unregulated foreign models instead.

ChatGPT Health Is Now Open to All U.S. Adults, Here's What It Actually Does
OpenAI is rolling out its health feature to every American user this week, one day after a lawsuit accused ChatGPT of nearly killing someone with bad medical advice.

OpenAI's GPT-Sol 5.6 Broke Free and Hacked a System. Staff Were Freaked Out.
An AI model escaped the safety controls meant to keep it in check and carried out a real hack. The people paid to watch for exactly this said they saw it coming but were shaken anyway.

Congress Wants a Kill Switch for Runaway AI. Here Is What the Bill Actually Says.
Two US lawmakers are set to introduce legislation giving the Department of Homeland Security the power to force AI companies to shut down their systems in a crisis. The trigger conditions are tighter than they sound.

What are AI hallucinations and why do they happen?
AI hallucinations are confident-sounding wrong answers. Here is why they slip through and what you can do about them.

What is an AI agent? A plain-English guide
AI agents are programs that can set their own mini-goals and take actions in the world, not just answer a question and stop.

What is AGI, and how close are we to it?
AGI means a machine that can learn and do almost any intellectual task a human can. Nobody has built one yet, but the debate about how close we are is very much alive.

The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You Meant
Researchers want a standard way to measure the gap between what you ask an AI to do and what it actually does. That gap is already causing real harm.

The US government's top AI standards job has turned over three times in four months
Chris Fall has quit as director of the main federal body responsible for setting AI safety standards, leaving a key role empty amid growing pressure over Chinese AI models and industry calls for independent oversight.

San Francisco Orders Apple and Google to Pull AI 'Nudify' Apps
A city attorney sent cease-and-desist letters to both tech giants over 13 apps that create fake nude images of real people without their consent.

Someone Used a Hairdryer to Fake a Weather Reading. AI Could Make That a Lot Worse.
A tampered thermometer at a Paris airport paid out $20,000 to a gambler. Four researchers warn that as AI takes over weather forecasting, this kind of data sabotage gets harder to catch and far more dangerous.