As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals — AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.
Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” — In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies. — Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart
Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas — AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation
Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language — We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days …
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO — Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion …
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout — OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era” — OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” …