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The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier."
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Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
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AI lab PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B that fits on a PC and possibly a high-end smartphone.
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OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
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As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies allegedly scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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