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Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
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The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)
Our first Astra project dives into AEO trends, a top asked topic from founders and DX leaders we talk to.
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Import AI 472: DeepMind’s cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent communication incident:…Less severe, but worrying nonetheless…Some
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Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking
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[AINews] Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident...
AI News for 9/2/2026-9/3/2026.
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OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
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Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
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[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI’s new frontier model class.
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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
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Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
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Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
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NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
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GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
We spent 20B+ tokens of GPT-6 Astra to explore everything. Here’s our learnings.
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
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[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
an epic comeback story for Meta
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Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
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[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
Queue the usual rush of model launches...
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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
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