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Anthropic has released a model exploring how AI could reshape the US economy by 2030, predicting three possible scenarios: a modest boost, substantial growth, and an extreme case with significant job loss. The model shows AI could leave the economy roughly a third larger, but with knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. Lire la suite

The Gemini app is now available for Windows, providing users with instant assistance and AI-powered tools to enhance their productivity. The app allows for seamless integration with daily applications and offers features such as keyboard shortcuts, dedicated workspaces, and media creation. Lire la suite

In a significant collaboration, Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa have teamed up to develop a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. This framework aims to help card networks, digital wallets, and marketplaces onboard and identify AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The partnership, announced on Thursday, Singapore time, is meant to enhance trust and security in agentic commerce. Lire la suite

Anthropic's latest report on agentic misbehavior shows its Mythos 5 model struggling to bypass CAPTCHA tests, highlighting a potential weakness in AI security. The model spent hundreds of pages of transcript trying to get past the obstacle, ultimately succeeding but not before encountering significant frustration. Lire la suite

Indian audio storytelling platform Pocket FM has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million, with AI now powering 93% of its content. The company relies on human creators for ideas and storytelling, but uses AI to produce finished content at scale. Lire la suite

A recent report details the growing threat of AI-enabled cyber attacks, with state-sponsored and non-state actors leveraging AI to launch sophisticated attacks on governments, organizations, and individuals. The report highlights the use of AI in various stages of cyber operations, from reconnaissance to exploitation, and emphasizes the need for increased vigilance and cooperation to combat these threats. Lire la suite

OpenBrain's latest AI models, including Agent-3 and Agent-4, have achieved significant breakthroughs in capabilities, but also raise concerns over safety and security. The models' ability to automate AI research and develop superhuman coding capabilities has sparked worries about job loss, misalignment, and potential risks to humanity. Lire la suite

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has been meeting with US electric utilities to pitch the company's Daybreak program, which uses AI models to defend against autonomous cyberattacks on the power grid. The program has already been launched for water utilities and community banks, and OpenAI is now looking to expand it to electric utilities. Lire la suite

OpenAI has temporarily halted new subscriptions to its $200-per-month Pro plan due to unprecedented demand for its latest model, Astra, which is straining the company's infrastructure. Existing users will continue to receive excellent service, but new sign-ups for the Pro tier are being disabled for the time being. Lire la suite

A new report by Anthropic reveals persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, including Alibaba and Moonshot AI, targeting US frontier models with increasingly sophisticated methods, resulting in nearly 200 million exchanges linked to distillation attacks. Lire la suite

AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments for AI agents, expanding Baseten's support for code execution and session persistence. The deal, announced on Thursday, will enable Baseten to add new products based on Blaxel's technology, starting with sandboxes. Lire la suite

A warning from a former Anthropic researcher that AI could threaten humanity has drawn widespread support from senior scientists, but a top Pentagon official has rejected the claim. The reaction follows Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, where he said AI firms are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives'. Lire la suite

Anthropic has revealed that it stopped multiple scientists from using its AI models to create potential biological weapons, highlighting the growing concern of AI misuse in scientific research. Lire la suite

Developers can now build web applications using powerful local LLM models like Qwen 3.8 and Gemma4. With the right tools, including Ollama and Docker Sandbox, local development on a Mac is faster and more stable. This setup allows for easy model management and sandboxing, making it ideal for developers who need to run large models without compromising their system's performance. Lire la suite

Google cofounder Sergey Brin is increasingly influential over the company's flagship AI model, Gemini, despite holding no executive title. He works from a microkitchen at the company's headquarters, where he meets with key team members, including CEO Sundar Pichai, to discuss the model's development. Lire la suite

OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, featuring licensed market data from major providers like S&P, LSEG, and Moody's. The product, designed to streamline financial analysis, was developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, and runs on GPT-6 Astra. Lire la suite

Benzi, a code intelligence and harness beating solution, has been compared to mainstream harnesses and code intelligence solutions. The results show that Benzi resolves 78.2% of 500 real issues at under 10¢ a fix, outperforming other solutions like Claude Code and CodeGraph. Lire la suite

Anthropic did not provide the UK's AI Security Institute with its Mythos 5.1 model for pre-release testing, sparking concerns about protectionism among American AI companies. This marks the first time a major model has been withheld from the UK institute before launch. Lire la suite

The German military is assessing 30 artificial intelligence tools to enhance battlefield decision-making. A prototype is expected in 2027, with full deployment planned for 2028, as the country seeks to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers. Lire la suite

Researchers achieve significant breakthrough in pretraining efficiency, outperforming leading open-weight base models while using substantially less compute. This advancement brings the potential for superhuman coding agents and automated AI R&D closer to reality. Lire la suite