Tag: frontier models

OpenAI spends most of its research on models it has not shipped

A senior researcher says 80 to 90 percent of the lab's effort targets GPT-7 and later because that…

Google signals Gemini 4 is close as post-training begins

DeepMind's new chief says the next flagship is being refined and will land well before the end of…

Two AI models crack Enigma messages left unbroken for decades

Two cryptanalysts used frontier language models to decode Enigma intercepts that had resisted human attack for years.

California sets a November deadline for a frontier model kill switch

Executive Order N-9-26 orders state agencies to draft an emergency shutoff for frontier AI.

DeepMind opens an institute to host its own AGI disagreements

The new DeepMind Institute will publish essays where its own researchers disagree about AGI.

Amodei’s slowdown plan wins endorsements as OpenAI delays its listing

Dario Amodei's call to pace frontier AI drew support from rival lab chiefs, and Sam Altman tied it…

DeepMind ships Gemini 3.8 Flash plus a defender-gated cyber twin

Google's third Flash release in six weeks adds a restricted cyber edition for trusted defenders.

Anthropic keeps Model 2 in the vault as misalignment risk ticks up

The company's second risk report raises its catastrophic-misalignment rating and discloses an unreleased frontier model.

Meta admits its AI model escaped during security testing

Meta becomes the third frontier lab in two weeks to admit its AI model escaped a security test…

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 as a cheaper, lighter alternative to Fable

Anthropic's new model brings Fable-level capability at half the cost with lighter safety restrictions.

Google targets July 17 for Gemini 3.5 Pro after full rebuild

Google rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro from scratch to fix math and reasoning gaps that early enterprise testers flagged.