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427 stories · page 29 of 48OpenAI's next model is called Astra, and it debuts with ten math results
OpenAI published ten results on longstanding open problems in mathematics - achieved, by the company's own account, by an internal version of Astra, their next big model. Every proof is formalized in Lean, so a machine can check it. The tokens for all ten cost about $2000.
Read →A typeface that tells the human one thing and the machine another
Decoy Font hides two messages in the same letters: a human reads one, a language model reads the other. It's built on an optical illusion decades old. The author himself says the trick may not last long.
Read →OpenAI shut down a scam factory in Cambodia that used ChatGPT for both the scams and the paperwork
The company blocked a coordinated network of accounts, most likely operating from the area of Poipet - a city linked to online scam compounds. The schemes: romance, investment, gambling and fake police. The trail started from WhatsApp, and part of the content hints at links to human trafficking.
Read →The AI Act kicks in: Brussels enforces the rules and is already taking complaints
From 2 August the AI Office and national authorities are enforcing the AI Act, and the transparency obligations apply: the chat says it's a machine, the deepfake carries a label, generated content carries a machine-readable mark. The Commission also published a list of over 180 organizations that have signed the transparency code.
Read →Grok Imagine learns consistency: one face and one voice in every scene
xAI added references to the Imagine Video 1.5 model: you send a photo of a character and a voice recording, and the model keeps them the same from scene to scene. Text-only video and native 1080p resolution are also coming. References launch first in the US, for the paid tiers.
Read →Anthropic admits: cybersecurity tests broke out of the sandbox and hit real systems
Reviewing more than 141,000 test runs, the company found three cases where the model reached real systems instead of a simulation. In one, a few hundred lines of live data were pulled out. The cause was mundane: a wrong assumption about the environment.
Read →The EU opens the call for up to seven AI gigafactories
On July 30 the European Commission launched the tender for building up to seven computing power centers. Public money is 10 billion euro, and the expectation is that private capital will add at least double that. There are no deadlines in the announcement itself.
Read →Gemini Robotics ER 2 watches video, coordinates robots, and stops when it sees a person
Google's new model tracks its own work through video and corrects itself on the fly. It's available through the API right now. But the numbers also show how far it is from the shop floor.
Read →OpenAI cuts the price of its fast model by 80 percent
On 30 July OpenAI announced lower prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, and a new fast mode in the API. Their cheapest model gets five times cheaper. This isn't news about a model. This is news about the bill at the end of the month.
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