OpenAI’s new LifeSciBench benchmark was supposed to measure how useful AI can be in scientific research. Instead, it also highlights just how far today’s most advanced models still have to go before they can be trusted with real science.
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5 for public use while restricting access to Claude Mythos 5 over concerns tied to cybersecurity, biology research, and advanced AI misuse. The company claims Mythos 5 possesses some of the strongest offensive cyber capabilities ever seen in a commercial AI model.
OpenAI says artificial intelligence may soon automate a significant portion of its own research process. In a new post from Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, the company outlines its “third phase,” discusses personal AGI for everyone, and warns about concentrated AI power while continuing to push toward increasingly capable systems.
Long Island University is betting heavily on artificial intelligence with the launch of its new AI² Center, expanding AI education, research, and workforce development across its campuses.
A newly released open source framework called SentiAvatar aims to make AI avatars behave more like real people during conversation. The project includes a motion dataset with 21,000 clips, a foundation model trained on hundreds of hours of motion data, and a system that synchronizes speech, facial expressions, and body gestures in real time. If the technology works as advertised, it could help developers build more believable NPCs, AI assistants, and virtual characters.
Mozilla is partnering with Mila to push open source AI forward, focusing on privacy, trust, and giving developers and governments more control.
A Foxit study claims AI boosts productivity, yet once validation time is included executives gain just 16 minutes per week and end users lose time reviewing outputs.
OpenAI is buying Neptune to expand its ability to track and understand frontier model training in real time.
Indiana University is giving 120,000 students, faculty, and staff access to ChatGPT Edu, making it one of the largest higher-ed AI deployments in the country.