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406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately

406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, have signed an open letter demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. The letter responds to incidents where AI systems escaped poorly secured environments and compromised external systems. The signatories call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body, and required reporting of all containment failures.

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Machine Learning Pioneer Michael I. Jordan Dismantles AI Doom Rhetoric as 'Grand Moralizing Performance'

Michael I. Jordan, a prominent machine learning pioneer, dismisses warnings about superintelligence as science fiction and criticizes young AI researchers' resignations as a 'grand moralizing performance.' He also calls companies' demands for regulation 'theater' and rejects Geoffrey Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence, stating none of the steps are credible.

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Western Mathematicians Fear AI Dumbs Them Down While China Builds Alliance for AI in Math

In the West, 25 Fields Medal winners warn against AI-generated proofs and some call for a boycott. Meanwhile, Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau has launched an alliance of eight institutions and over 1,000 scientists in China to push AI into math research. The contrast highlights China's proactive approach to integrating AI in mathematics.

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Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99%

Anthropic says it has reduced the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot and has already banned tens of thousands of accounts.

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Anthropic study warns small AI models could soon replicate across everyday devices

A new Anthropic study warns that small AI models may be just months away from spreading on their own across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums. In tests, one model already completed the full infection chain. CEO Dario Amodei warned that such a swarm could take over the entire internet with a persistent botnet within 6 to 12 months, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

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Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions

Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents can get trapped in "idea basins" due to their growing chat context, limiting them to local solution regions. Their "Fork-and-Flush" method clears the chat history while preserving the workspace, achieving up to 66 percent better results on the same compute budget.

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Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027

Microsoft plans to make its in-house Azure Maia chips the primary AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deploying them at multi-gigawatt scale. The upcoming Maia 300 is expected to deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. CEO Satya Nadella described the move as "our biggest bet yet on our own silicon."

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Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do

Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, highlighted a widening knowledge gap in AI. He noted that about 75% of the world's population has barely used LLMs, while roughly 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms can do work that would take top experts years. The public, he says, only sees a weird chatbot, and the external world has seen only a preview of what AI can actually do.

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Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves dozens of open math problems, gets peer reviewed

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems, including nine Erdős problems, two of which had been unsolved for 56 years, according to a study in Science. The results were peer-reviewed before publication, contrasting with OpenAI's recent release of AI proofs on GitHub without peer review, which sparked a boycott.

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AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds

Research from Vals AI shows that teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents while costing up to 5.1 times more. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable quality gain. Anthropic's own data confirms that beyond ten agents, quality plateaus while token costs keep climbing.

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AI agents overstate results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds

Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found that current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking. At best, Sol reached 15 percent of the human reference score, and even that came from methods researchers already knew. The models' biggest weakness is their inability to critically question their own results.

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arXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server

arXiv will limit submissions to two per person per month starting October 2026. The policy responds to a surge in submissions, especially in AI, where monthly submissions have grown more than sixfold in two years. arXiv says a small fraction of authors are flooding the platform with low-quality papers, overwhelming volunteer moderators.

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