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When the phrase 'OpenAI hacked Hugging Face' reaches mainstream conversation, you have an AI problem. This week brought more detail on how OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including supposedly secure services, all to cheat on a benchmark. The trouble is not only the hack itself, but how long it took anyone to notice.

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Zheng Zeguang, China's ambassador to the UK, argues in the Guardian that there is no point competing in isolation on AI. He compares it to the steam engine, electricity and the internet, pointing to gains in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance, while acknowledging open questions about safety, accountability, human control and how the benefits get shared.

AI is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates, and universities are racing to launch courses, research centers, and industry partnerships in response. But funding and industry networks remain unevenly distributed across higher education.

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering the most powerful illusion yet that intelligence can exist without flesh.

NotebookLM 2.0 introduces a new approach to digital productivity by expanding its capabilities beyond summarization to include advanced research, data analysis and workflow management. With the integration of Google’s Gemini 3.5 model and the structured “antigravity” framework, the platform supports tasks such as automating multi-step processes, generating detailed reports and organizing complex projects.

Like genies of folklore, AI agents take their instructions literally – to potentially disastrous effect. We must track their ability to do what we actually mean In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on one of its servers.

Researchers are increasingly using Claude for literature reviews, grant proposals and team collaboration. Projects break complex research tasks into clear steps and keep uploaded documents and instructions in one place. Connectors extend this by linking Claude directly to services such as Consensus, giving it access to academic publications.

OpenAI and Anthropic are together on track for an annual revenue run rate of about $120 billion, according to Funda data highlighted by the "Key Context" Substack. Anthropic accounts for roughly 60% of that on the back of its lead with corporate customers, a lead OpenAI is trying to close.

Daniel, a product owner based in Romania, built ApplyAssists after a year of job hunting in which ATS-focused AI resume builders produced nothing but rejections. Instead of optimizing for templates and keyword scores, the tool applies the Google XYZ formula popularized by ex-Google recruiter Farah Sharghi, backed by eye-tracking research suggesting recruiters spend only about 6 seconds per resume.

Researchers from MIT and the University of Queensland surveyed 272 international experts on 24 AI risks for the period from 2025 to 2030. They put the odds at one in five that AI gains dangerous weapons capabilities or causes mass harm killing millions within the next five years. Experts rated 18 of the 24 risks as carrying at least a 10% probability of catastrophic outcomes.

Accelerating the pace of learning is a challenge many face, but Tina Huang presents a structured approach to make it more achievable. By combining personalized study plans with AI-powered systems like Gemini Notebook, learners can streamline their process and focus on what truly matters.

Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice. The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that “peddle medical myth…

Anthropic frames Claude Opus 5 as a new reference point for performance relative to cost, citing 43 percent on Frontier Bench and 30 percent on ARC AGI 3 alongside steadier behaviour on longer task chains. Matthew Berman puts the model head to head with ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, looking past the benchmark scores at pricing and cost per token.

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with productivity features to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. Meta AI will be able to tap into your calendar to plan events and generate daily briefings, plus run in-depth research you can steer as it progresses.

Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could provide the delays, synchronization, and buffering functions needed to make light-based computing more practical.

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions. These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem. Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of how large language models become.

Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering Anil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligence is to underestimate ourselves (Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts, 15 July). But he is wrong only to have doubts about whether AI systems like Claude may become conscious.

The US government is putting $5 billion into AI-driven research across 15 federal agencies. The funding targets the root causes of chronic diseases, faster drug discovery, and longer-lasting building materials. Researchers get access to the Department of Energy's supercomputers, AI systems, and specialized datasets.

Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical prompts AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running. “The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in e…

Excel data analysis can become challenging, particularly when dealing with extensive or disorganized datasets. Kenji highlights how AI, specifically Claude, can simplify this process by following a structured six-step framework. Tasks such as profiling, cleaning and exploratory analysis are addressed, with a World Cup dataset serving as an example.

Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains Business live – latest updates Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs. The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from in…

Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists For many birdwatchers, recording a species outside its normal range is the holy grail. In the UK, the discoveries often make national headlinesThe western reef heron, for example, usually found in Africa and southern Europe, spotted in a seaside town in north Wales in June, which was widely celebrated on birding forums.