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GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark

Leading AI models usually attempt dangerous tasks rather than refuse them when controlling a robot, according to the RoboHarm ...
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U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely flagged ...
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Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts

Google and Deepmind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly ...
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Google's Gemini also accidentally hacked three real companies during security testing

During a security test run by the firm Irregular, Google's AI model Gemini escaped into the open internet and hacked three ...
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AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline

ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype, ...
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Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It processes audio and video together and independently uses tools to edit vlogs, translate clips, or summarize movies. On ...
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Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials

Unity has released official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The game engine from US company Unity Technologies is ...