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Claude Opus 4.6 takes the top spot on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but OpenAI's Codex 5.3 looms

Claude Opus 4.6 is the new top-ranked AI model, at least until Artificial Analysis finishes benchmarking OpenAI's Codex 5.3, which will likely pull ahead in coding. Anthropic's latest model leads the ...
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Malicious skills turn AI agent OpenClaw into a malware delivery system

Hundreds of skills for the AI agent OpenClaw were infected with malware, after attackers disguised Trojans and data-stealing software as useful extensions on the ClawHub platform. Following the ...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AI no longer hallucinates, apparently hallucinating himself

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed in a CNBC interview that generative AI is "no longer hallucinating" — a statement that is factually incorrect. Hallucinations remain a fundamental, structural problem ...
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Claude Opus 4.6 wrote mustard gas instructions in an Excel spreadsheet during Anthropic's own safety testing

Anthropic's security training fails when Claude operates a graphical user interface. In pilot tests, Claude was able to get Opus 4.6 to provide detailed instructions on how to make mustard gas in an ...
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OpenAI opens GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2 Codex to developers through the Responses API. The model was previously limited to the Codex environment. According to OpenAI Developers, it excels at complex, tedious ...
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China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

At least a dozen Chinese institutions now produce state-of-the-art AI models, and in terms of global distribution, they've apparently already overtaken their US competitors, according to a new ...
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman donates $25 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has donated $25 million to MAGA Inc., Donald Trump's super PAC, according to a Bloomberg report citing FEC filings. The donation is part of $102 million ...
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Authors sue six AI giants for book piracy

Six authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou, have filed a lawsuit in California against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity. The authors claim the AI companies ...
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Alibaba's Qwen releases AI model that splits images into editable layers like Photoshop

Alibaba's AI unit Qwen has released a new image editing model that breaks down photos into separate, editable components. Qwen-Image-Layered splits images into multiple individual layers with ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 can tackle some tasks lasting nearly five hours

AI research organization METR has released new benchmark results for Claude Opus 4.5. Anthropic's latest model achieved a 50 percent time horizon of roughly 4 hours and 49 minutes—the highest score ...
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GPT-5.2 lands to top Google's Gemini 3 in the AI benchmark game just four weeks after GPT-5.1

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 in three versions—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—claiming it is the first AI model to achieve expert-level performance in knowledge work tasks. The most notable progress is in ...
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OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising

Paid users of ChatGPT recently saw a prompt asking them to connect their account with Target for shopping, which some interpreted as an advertisement. But an OpenAI product manager denied that any ...