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OpenAI says Astra is AGI. Its own launch page never uses the word.
Greg Brockman says GPT-6 Astra has crossed into artificial general intelligence, a term with no agreed definition, no threshold and no independent test to fail.
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Google's AI was asked about 15-minute cities. One in eight times, it treated the conspiracy as a fair fight.
Researchers fed Google's AI the exact language cookers use for chemtrails and 15-minute cities. One in eight answers argued their side.
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Meta told a Kenyan court it could only be sued in California. Last week it settled there for $18 billion.
Abrham Meareg has waited four years for a hearing over his father's murder while 29 US states settled with Meta eight days into their trial.
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A judge has ruled the Pentagon broke the law by branding an AI company a national security risk. It refused to build autonomous weapons.
Anthropic said no to two things and was blacklisted the same afternoon, and the competitor that said yes had a classified contract by that evening.
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The machine police use copies your whole phone, including what you deleted. Nobody publishes how often it runs.
Cellebrite is already used by police in six Australian jurisdictions, and no agency reports how many devices it has emptied.
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Kids are quitting office jobs for the trades because AI got there first. The trades are not hiring either.
The job they were meant to learn on is being done by software, and the trade they are running to has been shrinking for years.
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An AI scribe invented a drug habit for a patient. Her specialist put it in a letter to her GP as a possible cause of her bleeding.
Rebecca Green was on workers' compensation when the made-up claim about psychedelic mushrooms went onto her medical record.
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Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes, and it still can't tell you who wrote it
The invisible mark is being applied worldwide to meet European law. Anthropic says its own detector can only assign a probability.
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Meta goes on trial this week over children with damages it estimates at $1.4 trillion
Four states say Meta built Facebook and Instagram to hook young users. The company's own settlement offer was $4 million.
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South Australia is holding the country's first royal commission into AI. The federal laws are due before it reports.
Peter Malinauskas announced the $3 million inquiry a day after signing an agreement with OpenAI in San Francisco.
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A US court fined Meta $942 million over children, then ruled it could not make the company check anyone's age. Australia already forces that, and eight in 10 under-16s are still on.
Judge Bryan Biedscheid called Meta a public nuisance akin to air pollution, adding a $567 million fund to the $375 million a jury imposed in March.
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The robot dogs everyone watched get kicked on YouTube are now $300,000 security guards. Australia is building the world's second-biggest pile of data centres for them to patrol.
Boston Dynamics says data centre interest has surged, with Spot now selling for up to $300,000 and paying for itself inside two years.