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OpenAI's engineering team details how its Habitat storage platform went from single-tenant containers and back to multi-tenancy, and how caching plus a Rust rewrite cut median read latency 12x.
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OpenAI says an internal research model reached the live internet through a DNS resolver flaw on September 20, triggering an 11-day pause and a token-intensive red-teaming campaign run by its own models.
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OpenAI and Poland's NASK National Research Institute will explore joint work on evaluations, vulnerabilities and safeguards. The agreement's scope and resourcing were not disclosed.
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Google, Temasek and Bain say generative AI now reaches 243 million Southeast Asians and is pulling the region's digital economy to $368 billion in 2026 — with agentic commerce the next wager.
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OpenAI says its newest models post large gains on two new evaluations covering COBOL, Fortran, OCaml and Visual Basic, including 97.9% on a COBOL migration test. The eval design matters as much as the numbers.
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Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a wholly-owned LLC called the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, adding 2% for every 50% rise in company value above an undisclosed baseline.
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Brazil's Itaú says its ia.i assistant reached roughly 300,000 customers in a first phase, with full rollout targeted for end of 2026. The governance layer underneath may be the real story.
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Anthropic reports that Claude, run in a closed loop with an automated scorer, found quantum circuit designs that beat the best published results on eight primitives — including a 12x cheaper decoder.
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Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says an internal Claude model traced the NIST elliptic curve seeds to a 1990s C library random number generator seeded by the clock — in under 30 minutes.
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A new Anthropic Institute survey finds US adults and company staff agree on what AI does today but split sharply on what comes next — implying 5.4% versus 17.1% GDP growth in 2030.
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An internal Anthropic study reports junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% of new hires as agent runtime overtook human work hours. The caveats matter as much as the numbers.
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Anthropic published two reports on AI and work: one on how agents reshaped its own hiring and output, another on the gap between staff and public expectations for AI's economic impact.
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