Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a 256K context window and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit.
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DailyAI Briefing: AI breaks a computing rule, plus 4 more
OpenAI and Anthropic both say AI disproved a decades-old computer science rule, and the FTC wants Anthropic's executives under oath.
Plus Qwen tries to phone Beijing, Siri gets a memory, and ChatGPT turns election fakes into cartoons.
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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
OpenAI and Anthropic Say AI Broke the Same Computer Science Rule
Both labs say their AI models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis on the same day, 16 October. Outside experts are now checking, and Anthropic says the gain only shows up beyond 10 million variables.
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Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, but trails frontier models on agentic coding.
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FTC Demands Anthropic Executives Testify in AI Safety Probe
The FTC has told Anthropic's executives to testify under oath in its AI safety probe, after sending 50-page demands to Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic's IPO filing warns the inquiry could force changes to how it builds its models.
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Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes.
The following article originally appeared on The Arize Blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Every time you think you’ve just got the hang of this AI thing, another thing gets declared “dead.” This week, it’s agent harnesses. Back in ancient history, aka June, I wrote a pi...
ChatGPT Now Turns Fake Election Photos Into Cartoons for the Midterms
With the US midterms a week away, ChatGPT now turns requests for misleading election photos into cartoons. A Brennan Center test found it was the only one of six AI image tools to clearly improve.
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vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model
vLLM Semantic Router released d3-ultra, a 27B open-weight multimodal decision model. It reads text, images and video once, then returns probabilities for every answer, scoring 87.2 on the team’s SR-Text test.
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Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Hundred-Page Document Parsing
Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an MIT-licensed 3B OCR model that parses hundred-page documents in one request. Its SR-SWA attention keeps per-step decoding cost nearly flat, scoring 77.1 on MarathonDocBench
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Halving GPT-6.1 Sol’s API Price for Agent Work
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use and vision model priced at $1/$5 per million tokens. It matches GPT-6 Astra’s medium-effort Agents’ Last Exam score at $0.29 per task versus $4.82.
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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.