Artificial Intelligence

GPT-6 is coming to all tiers of ChatGPT

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT, and it will come with the capability to build more visual responses.

NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes

NVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method that trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid early pivotal mistakes and recover from them, posting the best average against 13 baselines on 3 agent benchmarks.

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the…

Embedding the human factor into AI agent adoption

SPONSORED FEATURE: Making the link between business strategy and how the workforce adopts technology will be crucial to business success in the agentic AI era

Everyone can now check if an image, video, or audio file was made with AI

Starting today, Google is making its SynthID Detector tool available to everyone across the globe in English. This tool can be used to find out if an image, video, or audio file was made with AI from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, or Kakao.

Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for adapting them to specific decision-making tasks.

Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA

Perplexity’s pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2% on ViDoRe v3 Markdown. Both are MIT-licensed and ready to self-host. The post Perplexity AI…

Claude Haiku 5.5 is here: The fastest, most affordable Anthropic model yet

Haiku 5.5 runs circles around Haiku 4.5.

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with aggressive pricing, but it consumes far more tokens

Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the successor to Haiku 4.5, designed for high-volume, cost-effective enterprise AI workloads.

OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites

Exclusive: Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising…

What Happens When a Trusted Model Repo Changes? Unsloth Studio Re-Checks Before It Runs

Unsloth’s October 6 security overview explains how Studio checks code, weights, packages and tools before anything runs. Custom model code is scanned and approval is bound to its fingerprint.

Utah Now Allows AI to Scan Your Face and Prescribe Acne Medication

The program is limited in scope and can only prescribe medication for acne.

Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review

Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation’s financial sector

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes

Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.

The model that didn’t exist, so you made it yourself

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Google’s SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone

Google today said it is making its SynthID Detector available to everyone for identifying content created using AI. SynthID Detector first rolled out to members of the media last year, and it is now available worldwide in English.

ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 and New Intelligent UI With Visual Answers

OpenAI today introduced Intelligent UI, a new feature that will let ChatGPT answer questions with “fully interactive user interfaces.” OpenAI says everyday answers will be more visual, and the feature will make it easier for users to understand complicated topics.

Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system

But don’t worry, it’s totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?

Managers are using AI to write performance reviews – and it shows

Does AI use help or hurt feedback at work? Here’s what one survey found.

Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a $6,000 powerhouse

Microsoft’s tiny new desktop packs serious AI power for developers, but getting all that performance will require a very serious investment, to the tune of $6,000.

ChatGPT for Teens Is an ‘Unacceptable Risk,’ Watchdog Group Says

Research by Common Sense Media says that OpenAI’s parent alert system is faulty and that the chatbot doesn’t help kids improve their learning skills.

Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) hits general availability

Microsoft is giving developers a new way to keep increasingly powerful AI agents under control without sacrificing their ability to get work done.

OpenAI brings GPT-6 to ChatGPT and debuts Intelligent UI

After introducing the first GPT-6 models last month, OpenAI today announced new GPT-6 models built for everyday ChatGPT conversations, alongside a new Intelligent UI. Here are the details. more…