OpenAI fires contractors for using AI to label ChatGPT’s answers
Companies that hire people to hand-label ChatGPT's answers are firing them for doing that work with neural networks. OpenAI isn't commenting.
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NVIDIA opens the weights for Nemotron 3 Diarization to label voices
The model labels audio by voice, distinguishes up to eight participants, works both in streaming and on pre-recorded audio, and the weights can be run locally.
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Anthropic released a guide to Opus 5.5: don’t micromanage the model
A practical guide to Opus 5.5 advises describing the whole task in a single message and naming the finish line right away — after that, the model works on its…
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Claude Opus 5.5 agents proved a faster shortest-path search in Lean in 15 hours
Ten Vals AI agents, in 15 hours and 733 messages, derived the C-HD algorithm with a proof in Lean. The improvement is asymptotic and only within a narrow graph-density range…
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna — cheaper than Astra at the same generation quality
OpenAI has added two more affordable models to the GPT-6 line — Sol and Luna: API pricing is half of GPT-5.6 promotional prices, and on AutomationBench Sol beats Claude Opus…
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Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 — on par with Fable 5.1 and 40% cheaper
The first model in the Claude 5.5 family performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most tasks but costs roughly 40% less than Opus 5. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku…
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GitHub Rewrote the Copilot Engine from TypeScript to Rust — the Code Was Mostly Written by AI Agents
GitHub has moved Copilot's agent runtime to Rust: more than 800,000 lines of code across 128 pull requests. Most of it was written by AI agents rather than humans.
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Google open-sources AX, a declarative orchestrator for agentic tasks
AX describes tasks, environments, gateways and models with ax.io/v1alpha1 manifests and applies them with a single command. Sandboxes with limits, egress allowlists, suspend/resume and ax ssh; the goal is billions…
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AI code in the Linux kernel: a record 1,634 changes in a week
According to The Lunduke Journal, 1,634 AI-written changes landed in the Linux kernel last week, and in September 2026 AI code accounted for 17.25% of all patches. This is a…
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FAA prepares $875 million AI platform SMART for air traffic controllers
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is preparing a cloud-based AI platform called SMART: it is meant to predict aircraft flows and find conflicts in advance to ease the load on…
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Robotic hand learns to walk on its own fingers
A humanoid hand moves around on its own fingers, uses those same fingers to hold the body's weight and to work with objects. Power and computation are onboard, and training…
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Yandex trains Alice AI Foundation LLM from scratch with 80 billion parameters
Yandex has unveiled the from-scratch trained Alice AI Foundation LLM model: 80 billion parameters, 3 billion active, 18 trillion tokens. The weights are open under a license that permits commercial…
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