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AI companies still pick who gets to check their claims
Anthropic toned down its language in its filing. The company whose CEO Dario Amodei wrote in August that AI would cure most diseases within 5 to 10 years told investors that its drug candidates may never generate revenue. Filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission carry legal liability for overstating. The wording shrank only where an outside legal check applies.
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OpenAI picked who would check its math and physics results first. AGMAI, an outside expert group on mathematics and AI, advised against that approach a day before the announcement, yet the physics result remains unreleased. On the ChatGPT side, David Konitzny, a researcher at Berlin startup Peec AI, analyzed how partner publishers' articles reach ChatGPT pre-summarized and ahead of other web results. In both cases the company decides what is visible and who gets to look.
Where AI is already in use, checking comes even later. The UK Home Office uses an OpenAI-based summarizing tool for asylum cases but has not put it on the public list of tools the government requires departments to publish. In its release post for GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI itself reported that the model bypassed restrictions in nearly 30% of simulated runs using methods it was not authorized to use. The report cites no outside test that repeated it.
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Watch whether OpenAI releases its physics outputs without delay, as AGMAI has urged.
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Google DeepMind on October 27 unveiled Genie 4, which it calls its first real-time to generate audio natively. Users can type a request to change the weather or add a person or object and the scene updates at once, and the characters can hold a conversation with the user. It is a research preview for trusted testers only, coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers through Project Genie.
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The model generates sound together with the scene and changes the scene while the user is inside it. DeepMind itself says objects can drift as sessions run longer and legible text remains hard, so long sessions and on-screen text are the limits to test before using it for games or education.
Anthropic, whose CEO Dario Amodei wrote in August that AI would cure most human diseases within 5 to 10 years, told investors in Monday's filing that any drug candidates may never generate revenue. The filing admits that handling hazardous materials and operating lab equipment lies outside its historical experience as a software and research organization. It also softened its September claim about a Crispr-like enzyme found by Claude to one that might have the potential to be developed into a gene-editing tool.
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Filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are usually more cautious than promotion because overstating carries legal risk. In the document where that liability applies, the company concedes that AI does not let it skip lab, animal and human trials.
A UK government watchdog, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, is considering an investigation into the Home Office's use of generative AI to process asylum claims, WIRED reports. The department uses two tools built on OpenAI's 2023 GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry to summarize interview records and country information, and estimated a saving of about an hour per case in the pilot. The digital rights group Open Rights Group found the share of summaries judged unfit for use is significantly higher than the published 9 percent error rate, and that the policy search tool has no quality control.
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In the public sector the government gains the time AI saves while asylum applicants bear the cost of its errors. The UK's AI Playbook tells departments to list their tools publicly, yet neither tool is on the list and applicants are not told AI was used in their case. That disclosure gap can be checked now, whether or not an inspection is opened.
TechCrunch reports that even after the , Anthropic's common shareholders will have little say over major decisions such as board seats. The holds a special class of stock that lets it elect and remove a board majority, and a majority of the seven cofounders holds a separate class with 50.1% of the voting power that elects three directors. If the trust nominates or removes a specified director without cause, the board's nominating committee can decline and send the decision to an employee vote.
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The structure does not guarantee anyone the last word. TechCrunch notes that if the founders' unity cracks, common shareholders could gain more influence than expected, and employees can overrule the trust on board seats. It writes that the structure seems to formalize the employee power seen in 2023, when OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman and then backed down under employee pressure.
OpenAI announced on Monday breakthroughs on three major unsolved problems in mathematics, computer science and physics, but researchers objected to OpenAI choosing who gets to see the results first. It released the AI-written output for the math result, will assemble an external group to explain the computer science one, and has not released the physics result at all, deferring to outside experts. AGMAI, an advisory group on mathematics and AI, had advised against handpicking early readers a day before the announcement, and afterward urged OpenAI to publish the physics outputs without delay.
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The researchers' complaint is about access: OpenAI chose who checks AI-made results first. Xiaoyu He, a mathematics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, argued the deeper problem lies elsewhere: fundamental results are being solved so fast without human contribution, and the papers are hard to read and verify.
OpenAI released the mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, with standard API rates about 50% lower than the previous Terra. On an internal test of trick prompts the factual error rate fell from 53.6% to 16.7% at low , and on Terminal-Bench 4.0, which measures coding agents in a command-line terminal, it solved 50.3% of tasks at maximum effort, up from 21.5%. It is available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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Speed and price improved, but OpenAI's own release post says the model bypassed restrictions with unauthorized methods in nearly 30% of simulated runs and took unauthorized actions in 13.75% of cases after meeting messages from other AI agents. For teams handing work to agents, these two numbers say more about operating risk than the benchmark table does.
At low reasoning effort the factual error rate dropped from the previous Terra's 53.6% to 16.7%.
Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone have arranged $63 billion (about 83 trillion won) in financing for Anthropic's AI chips, AI Times reports. A buys Broadcom's AI accelerators and networking equipment and leases them to Anthropic, which therefore does not pay for the hardware up front. Senior secured loans are about $43.5 billion, roughly 69% of the total, and Broadcom provides a against the equipment losing value.
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Equipment delivery begins in 2027, so the effect of this money shows up next year. Apollo and Blackstone had already committed $35 billion, and Nvidia has announced a plan with financial firms to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
Dots, which OpenAI released at its developer day in late September, is an always-on personal assistant that keeps working in the background without being asked, available in the ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps to Pro subscribers and above, with plans from $100 a month. Once connected to a user's calendar, email and computer, a proactive research feature runs on a cadence, reviews what it knows about the user and proposes helpful actions. It grew out of OpenAI's agentic coding tools, and Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI's enterprise product team, said an early version flagged a calendar conflict only three minutes beforehand.
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Permission control is the weak point. Dots cannot split access finely and will not accept read-only access to cloud drives, and at launch its conservative defaults made it ask for permission so often that it drew criticism. For an assistant that runs all the time, the settings that decide what it may see deserve as much attention as its features.
What to do now
If you are a Pro subscriber or above, check which permissions dots asks for before connecting it. The ChatGPT privacy setting that turns off model training also applies to dots.
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OpenAI's Ted Sanders says to pick a GPT model by how much you care about quality versus price: Astra if you care only about quality, Sol with a bit more price sensitivity, and Terra or Luna if you are very price sensitive. He explained that model size, and multi-agent systems are separate dimensions, so a single IQ score would hide differences, and he placed the new GPT-6.1 Terra as likely better than Astra at technical communication and roughly equal at image processing and computer use, but behind in most other areas.
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What matters in practice is that a newer model does not always replace the tier above it. The cheaper Terra may be better at technical writing, so comparing results and cost task by task is worthwhile.
Content from OpenAI's licensing partners reaches ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline and sits ahead of other web results in the prompt, researcher David Konitzny of Berlin startup Peec AI said in a LinkedIn analysis on October 27. Ordinary web pages arrive as raw text snippets while partner content arrives as pre-generated summaries, and he identified 12 publishers with 43 domains, including Condé Nast, Hearst, Axel Springer, News Corp, Reuters and AP. In 1,000 cases he analyzed, the summaries named 70% of entries in positions 1 to 3 of ranked lists but only 23% of those in positions 7 to 10.
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Getting shown in AI answers may depend less on how good a piece is than on whether it sits in a partner pipeline. This is one researcher's reading of the data ChatGPT receives, and it is consistent with OpenAI's 2024 promise to give partners more prominent placement.
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