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The AI safety check that runs on a laptop and nearly matched a 35B model
Guardrail selection has typically meant choosing between a purpose-built classifier and an LLM acting as a judge. Decision models such The post The AI safety check that runs on a laptop and nearly matched a 35B model appeared first on…
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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex
An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text,…
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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running…
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Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect…
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OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an…
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The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer…
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GPT-Synopsys Combines IC Design EDA with Agentic AI
Synopsys joins OpenAI for a leap of faith in AI-native IC design by augmenting frontier models with EDA tools. The post GPT-Synopsys Combines IC Design EDA with Agentic AI appeared first on EE Times.
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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday,…
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Agents have made CI the bottleneck. Faster pipelines are the wrong fix.
Three posts landed in September that I think engineering leaders should read together. Anthropic’s engineering team wrote that their continuous The post Agents have made CI the bottleneck. Faster pipelines are the wrong fix. appeared first on The New Stack.