The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or...
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or...
The domain name registrar company Identity Digital Inc. thinks it knows how to make artificial intelligence agents more accountable, and to do that it’s creating an entirely new company called Known...
Snorkel AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence training data, today disclosed that it has raised $350 million in funding. Insight and S32 led the Series E deal. They were joined by more than...
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis , OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the...
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Despite rampant worries about runaway artificial intelligence, the two big AI model makers aren’t yet slowing down: Anthropic PBC released Claude Opus 5.5 today and cut its price 20%, and minutes...
Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures...
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
OpenAI and Anthropic both recently released new models aimed at lowering costs. Anthropic announced Opus 5.5, the latest version of its main mass-market workhorse model, used for tasks like coding...
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device , is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired . The startup says its new OS3...
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored...
With GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI adds two cheaper models that deliver their predecessors' performance at half the token price and take aim at Anthropic's pricier offerings. Independent analyses find...
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Anthropic wants developers to use Claude and its family of tools to handle complete coding tasks. The company introduced Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday to span more of the software application...
Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts over a few-month span. Named...
On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna , an expansion of the GPT-6 line-up that aims to make GPT-6 Astra’s next-level intelligence more efficient, accessible, and affordable. Though OpenAI...
The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the...
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
There’s little question that AI coding agents have changed where software development work happens. Developers can increasingly delegate work from terminals, desktop applications and remote...
A new Windows malware named ClosedQuorum uses Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral AI models to autonomously determine the actions to take during post-compromise stages of an attack. [...]