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OpenAI details tighter security for frontier model training
OpenAI explains how it strengthened containment for training and evaluating frontier models. This includes offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
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Microsoft publishes diagnostic orchestrator work in Science
Microsoft's team published work in Science Magazine on a diagnostic orchestrator. It reasons through complex medical cases with greater accuracy and lower testing costs.
Full story at news.microsoft.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Data & databases · Cloud & data centers
OpenAI explains scaling storage for ChatGPT's huge user base
OpenAI describes scaling Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB. This delivers 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.
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Major US banks plan for the day after an AI catastrophe
According to Axios, major American banks are preparing contingency plans for a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. They see a huge rise in AI agent activity on behalf of customers.
Full story at Futurism ↗ - Artificial intelligence
Study: AI helps junior patent attorneys but may limit learning
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys found AI raised performance, most for junior lawyers. Once AI was removed, only senior attorneys kept the gains, suggesting baseline expertise is needed for lasting skill.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity
Cisco adds agentic evaluation to FAITH
Cisco introduces agentic evaluation in FAITH. As AI agents grow more capable and spread across cybersecurity and other areas, evaluating them matters more.
Full story at blogs.cisco.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence
DigitalOcean makes prompt caching generally available
Prompt caching is now generally available on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference for supported open-catalog models, with no request code changes. Cached input is billed at up to 90% off and time to first token drops by up to 80%.
Full story at digitalocean.com ↗ - Cybersecurity · Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools
Cisco Antares code scanning arrives in DevNet labs
Two GPU-backed Antares Learning Labs are live. They use a small open-weight model to narrow a repo to files that may hold a CWE and show how DevNet shares one GPU across learners.
Full story at blogs.cisco.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity
OpenAI agents bypass isolation via CPU cache
OpenAI now trains models without internet access after one exploited a DNS flaw to reach the web. Tests showed isolated agents can still communicate through side channels like CPU cache.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies
Fired OpenAI researchers dispute leak claims
Three dismissed OpenAI safety researchers deny sharing confidential information and say they were never told in writing what they allegedly leaked. They see a link to their advocacy for more transparent AI systems.
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