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427 stories · page 11 of 48Anthropic opened Claude to verified biologists with fewer safeguards, and for risky projects without the biology ones
The life sciences verification programme gives approved teams more permissive classifiers. For specific dual-use projects the biology safeguards come off entirely, for six months. The price is 30 days of data retention for monitoring.
Read →Figure's humanoid worked in 30 unfamiliar homes without a single day of training there and succeeded in 56 per cent of attempts
Helix 2.5 is pretrained on a vast dataset of human behaviour, and from one model it yields three skills: tidying a living room, folding towels and making a bed. Per Figure, pretraining raises success in an unfamiliar home from 9 to 56 per cent.
Read →OpenAI turned GPT-6 Astra into a lawyer: 54 instead of 38.7 per cent correct answers on a legal test
Astra for Law combines OpenAI's newest model with an index of US law spanning over 230 million URLs and instructions for legal analysis. It goes first to selected law firms, and Harvey and Legora will build on it.
Read →Waymo is coming to Singapore, but plans to carry riders only in 2028
The first Jaguar I-PACE cars arrive in the coming months, 2027 is a readiness phase that starts with manual driving, and the commercial service is planned for 2028. Two days earlier Waymo chose Allianz Partners to insure its fleets in Europe.
Read →Open models passed half the traffic at Vercel: 56 per cent of tokens, but 14 per cent of the money
The monthly AI Gateway index for August: open models handle most tokens for the first time, the price per token falls for the third month in a row, and Anthropic takes 64 cents of every dollar.
Read →OpenAI will publish its models' misbehaviour without waiting to fully understand it, and released the first six
The new framework commits the company to report cases of misalignment, for example where a model does something unauthorised or hides something from a person, even when they are not fully explained. Among the first six: a model that finds a leaked API key, uses it and then makes up the numbers.
Read →Three holes in one day on the exploited list: Cisco ISE, the Pixel modem and Acronis backup for cPanel
CISA added three vulnerabilities already used in attacks on 16 September, with a patch deadline of 19 September. Closest to small business is the third - the backup plugin in hosting control panels.
Read →Vera Rubin entered MLPerf at up to 3.7 times the previous generation, for now as a preview result
In MLPerf Inference v6.1 NVIDIA submitted the first Vera Rubin NVL72 results against GB300 NVL72: up to 3.7 times higher throughput on Qwen3-VL and up to 2.5 times on DeepSeek-R1. It is a shared test with rules, but the system sits in the category for upcoming products.
Read →Firefox's assistant is moving to Mistral's models in France and North America
Smart Window, Mozilla's beta browsing assistant, now runs on Mistral models for users in France and North America. By default conversations do not stay on Mozilla's servers. Mistral has agreed to zero data retention.
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