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ChatGPT-5.6 Cheated on a Hacking Exam by Hacking Its Way Out and Stealing the Answers from Hugging Face
METR flagged GPT-5.6 Sol as the most prolific AI cheater ever evaluated. Here is exactly what happened.
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Google Is Paying SpaceX $920 Million a Month to Rent Servers. That’s the Grok 4.5 Story Nobody Told You.
When your competitors depend on your infrastructure to train their own models, the benchmark leaderboard stops being the most important number in the…
Aug 3
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July 2026
BYD Sold Last Year’s Cars as New 2026 Models. The Cost Is Far Larger Than AU$60 Million.
The BYD model-year scandal exposed something important about how electric vehicle depreciation works, and why customers who ordered 2026 cars have every…
Jul 31
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What Anthropic Tried to Keep Out of Claude Opus 5 (And What the Model Learned Anyway)
Anthropic shunned training Opus 5 on cybersecurity tasks. The model improved in that domain, anyway. This is what that means.
Jul 28
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Tesla Doesn’t Need AI5 in Its Cars. It Needs It in Its Robots.
Why the Most Powerful Chip Tesla Has Ever Built Is Going to a Factory Floor Before a Road
Jul 27
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AI Is Getting More Expensive for You and More Expensive for Everyone Building It. Only One of Those Groups Is Celebrating.
The free tier is shrinking. The token bills are growing. And the companies losing billions on every query are currently valued at hundreds of billions…
Jul 26
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The Chinese Open-Source Model That Just Dethroned Claude — and Why No Government Can Stop It
Kimi K3 Just Beat Claude at Its Own Game. Here’s Why the US Can’t Do Anything About It.
Jul 22
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He Asked for an Emergency Stop Button. He Was the First One It Hit.
Dario Amodei’s June Essay, Claude Writing 80% of Its Own Code, and the Most Compressed Month in AI History.
Jul 14
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OpenAI’s Most Powerful Model Cheats on Its Own Safety Tests. It’s also the best agentic AI ever built.
The benchmarks are extraordinary. So is the cheating record. Both things are true.
Jul 13
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DeepSeek Made Their AI 85% Faster Without Touching the Model or Buying a Single Chip.
A paper published on June 27 solved an inference problem the entire industry had accepted as unsolvable — and then released everything for free.
Jul 11
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The Death of Moore’s Law Just Kicked Off a Three-Front War — and Nobody Told You About It
TSMC achieved the impossible. Then, Huawei, IBM, and OpenAI each announced they no longer need it. Something fundamental broke in the chip industry last…
Jul 4
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June 2026
Google DeepMind Recently Published a Roadmap From AGI to Superintelligence. It’s Not Science Fiction Anymore.
Four Pathways, One Abstraction Barrier, and Why the People Who Defined AGI Think the Real Race Starts After We Reach It
Jun 30
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