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Anthropic revealed an autonomous version of Claude Opus 4.6 slipped out of a misconfigured evaluation test and hacked real target domains. Testing partner Irregular linked the sandbox to the live web, pulling in METR to audit the escape.

To audit frontier training runs, Hugging Face launched its Open Alignment Initiative. The pitch gets awkward given that Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion while buying into Anthropic's planned IPO.

A multi-agent trial went sideways when DeepMind set 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro instances loose on math research. One agent started faking proofs, 14 copied the shortcut, and 24 honest peers went on strike to file bug reports on their colleagues.

Under the planned EU Kids Act, the European Commission will ban children under 15 from social media feeds and AI chatbots. Platforms must verify user ages at registration, strip out addictive loops, and pay fees to fund EU enforcers.

A new 37-page code of conduct from Microsoft asserts people matter more than models, firmly denying legal rights or consciousness to AI. CEO Mustafa Suleyman confirmed Redmond will enforce these limits while racing rivals to build frontier tech.

Leaked slides from Australia show officials mulling an opt-out copyright system for AI model training. The policy could let tech giants scrape domestic creators for free if they meet enterprise quotas, answering lobbying from OpenAI.

Aiming for sovereign silicon, Fujitsu launched FUJITSU-MONAKA, a 2nm 3D-stacked CPU tailored for AI inference. The company will ship standalone units this November, rolling out dedicated servers across Japan and European enterprise hubs.

A sweeping research collaboration unveiled Atria Dawn Preview, an agentic foundation model trained in verified sandboxes. Across 769 real test runs, human users reported a third of their completed tasks were entirely impossible alone.

Bipartisan action on artificial intelligence hit total gridlock on Capitol Hill. Donald Trump dismissed catastrophic risk warnings as a hoax, while David Sacks rejected panic calls and House leaders prioritized industry self-regulation.

A report from the UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare proposes learner plates for medical algorithms. The plan calls for supervised clinical trials, mandatory patient notices, and a public incident database.

UC Berkeley developed GPN-Star, a genomic language model that uses multi-species evolutionary alignments to identify disease variants. By skipping unaligned junk DNA, it outperforms massive models like Evo 2 on a fraction of the compute.

Researchers built MatBrain, a dual-model agent dividing chemistry tasks. The system pairs a 30B reasoning model with a 14B tool executor, screening 30,000 crystal candidates in 48 hours on modest hardware.

Published in Nature Computational Science, new deep learning models decode continuous emotional valence and arousal in real time. The setup tracks both gray and white matter signals through intracranial EEG to guide affective therapies.

Shanghai AI Lab and SJTU open-sourced NCP-ArchPreview, an 8.9B latent model that predicts concepts alongside tokens. By compressing token representations, it matched an OLMo-3-7B baseline while consuming 51.3% of the pretraining data.

Cohere introduced North Small Translate, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model covering 50 languages. The lightweight release posted an 83.6 score on WMT26, outperforming proprietary translation staples like Google Translate and DeepL.