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Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
via The Verge AI [6] — 1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step…
The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
via MIT Technology Review [3] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker…
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"
via Ars Technica [4] — The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
via MIT Technology Review [3] — OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says…
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
via OpenAI Blog [10] — OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.
GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
via OpenAI Blog [7] — Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
via The Verge AI [4] — SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was…
Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
via The Verge AI [5] — Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Writing in a blog post, the Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder said the US should lead the initiative, arguing that the country is…
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
via MIT Technology Review [5] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest…
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
via The Verge AI [6] — OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due…
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
via MIT Technology Review [3] — The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the…
Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
via The Verge AI [4] — Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it's coming soon to Facebook and Messenger,…
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
via The Verge AI [4] — "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help…
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
via The Verge AI [4] — Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in…
Teaching AI to run with the turbines
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In industries where physical infrastructure,…
Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Something stinks in California’s climate policies. Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, encouraging the dairy sector to produce a gas we…
Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a…
The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet
via MIT Technology Review [4] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to…
Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size…
AI agents are not your “coworkers”
via MIT Technology Review [4] — This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an…
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