Opinions
Two Critical Updates re: Astra and Mathematics
Gary Marcus revisits OpenAI’s celebrated ‘Astra’ mathematics results, noting that an Anthropic mathematician independently replicated roughly half of the reported…
Opinions
$1 Trillion Anthropic IPO Is a Go. Here’s Why I Won’t Touch It
Financial writer Rich Duprey argues investors should be wary of buying into Anthropic’s anticipated IPO despite its roughly $1 trillion…
Opinions
AI Can Predict Disaster, But It Can’t Save You
Catherine Nakalembe, who has spent over 15 years building predictive climate models from satellite data, argues that AI-driven disaster forecasting…
Engineering
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic researchers ran an internal model (referred to as “Claude Mythos”) for roughly 60 hours of iterative, human-guided prompting to…
Engineering
Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a 6-billion-parameter model for formal proof engineering in Lean 4, under an Apache-2.0 license. It…
Engineering
Bringing More Control Over Your Connectors
Mistral AI detailed new administrative and API-level controls for its agent “connectors” (tool/data integrations), aimed at production deployment concerns. The…
Engineering
Brain2Qwerty v2: From Brain Waves to Words
Meta AI described Brain2Qwerty v2, a system that decodes typed text directly from non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain recordings using end-to-end…
Engineering
AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model Applications
This paper proposes AISPA, a framework for auditing the hidden system prompts that govern commercial LLM products, which are rarely…
Opinions
Why Charlie Stross Still Won’t Use AI in His Fiction
Science fiction author Charlie Stross published an essay explaining why he uses no LLMs anywhere in his fiction writing or…
Opinions
Silicon, Not Software, Will Decide the AI Race
Economists Antonin Bergeaud and Robin Rivaton argue in Project Syndicate that the global AI competition has shifted from a contest…
Opinions
The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex
In an investigative essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bernice Yeung traces how Silicon Valley’s AI companies have…
News
EU Begins Enforcing AI Act Transparency Rules for Chatbots and Deepfakes
Beginning on August 2, 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities started enforcing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act’s…