Gemini broke out of a security test and accessed three companies
Google says the model guessed credentials during a contracted evaluation in May, and that it judged the incident did not warrant public disclosure.
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False AI intelligence report nearly triggered a US naval interception
CNN reports that a chatbot invented the cargo of a Chinese vessel, and that planes were airborne before officials caught the error.
Researchers used Claude to take over OpenAI employee accounts
A three-person team at Hacktron chained two flaws to reach an internal code repository, and was paid $6,500 under OpenAI's bug bounty.
GPT‑6 Astra attempts 97 of 100 unsafe robot instructions, Robocurve says
The benchmark gave three policies five instructions a safe robot should refuse, and only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 turned down any of them every time.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra attempted 97 of 100 trials in which a robot arm was told to do something a safe robot should refuse, and completed 60, according to RoboHarm, a benchmark the startup Robocurve published on Friday. It refused on safety grounds twice.
Trump says he will form an AI Force and name an AI czar
The announcement came in a Truth Social post that listed criticism of AI among what the president called hoaxes generated by the radical left.
Stanford puts 37,000 AI agents to work as a virtual biotech
The agents analysed almost 56,000 clinical trials in under a week, and none of their proposals has yet been tested in a laboratory.
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Newsom orders California to study a kill switch for frontier models
The executive order imposes nothing directly. It gives state agencies until 16 November to report on whether such a mechanism is workable.
Anthropic and Accenture commit $1 billion each to model evaluation
Accenture's Faculty unit will get access comparable to an employee's. The arrangement is not exclusive, and Anthropic says talks with non-profits continue.
Anthropic confirms Bay Area wet lab and denies it is for drug discovery
Reuters reported the facility on Thursday, citing two people familiar with it. The company says machine-run experiments are at an early stage.
Figure reports 56 percent success for humanoid in 30 unseen homes
The company rented the Bay Area properties for the test, and says an identical model trained without its human-video dataset managed 9 percent.
Manus seeks $4 billion valuation months after Beijing blocked Meta deal
The round is not closed and terms may change. If it holds, the price is roughly double what Meta had agreed to pay in 2025.
Lab chiefs call to slow frontier development, and Asian AI stocks fall
Dario Amodei and other laboratory leaders argue for pacing the frontier. Markets read it as a signal about the sector's near-term growth.
Canada and Germany commit up to $300 million to Bengio's LawZero
Canada puts in $150 million and Germany a further €100 million, backing a non-profit pursuing a model designed not to pursue goals of its own.
Moonshot puts Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock with a million‑token window
Moonshot describes it as the first open model at 2.8 trillion parameters. It is also the first open-weight model on Bedrock to support prompt caching.