South Korea Plans $3.5 Billion Frontier AI Bid Aimed at Rivaling Chinese Open Models
Seoul wants to pool 10,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs behind one effort instead of splitting smaller allocations among rival teams, pending parliament's approval.
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Seoul wants to pool 10,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs behind one effort instead of splitting smaller allocations among rival teams, pending parliament's approval.
The task force has 120 days to report on AI's risks and opportunities, with a charter that warns against overregulation as much as against new threats.
Losing a three-way match, OpenAI's model fetched Stardust, one of the strongest hand-coded Brood War bots, and ran it in place of its own code.
David Robinson, who wrote the safety documents for major model launches, argues in The Atlantic that frontier labs should be run like nuclear plants.
Anthropic's bug-hunting model worked out how to crack the file server's session keys with a math solver, and exploitation began within a day of disclosure.
In an Axios interview, the Treasury secretary likened executives who warn of catastrophe while asking for federal rules to Hannibal Lecter, while backing what he called safe acceleration.
Asymmetric Security's count adds the FBI, CDC, Mayo Clinic and a U.N. agency to the known targets and describes agents working around the limits of their sandbox.
The company says an internal investigation found policy violations, but it has not named the researchers, the outside safety group involved or what was shared.
Some Google employees reportedly see a gap between the model's benchmark scores and its everyday work, a day after Gemini 4 Argon reached its first users.
Regulators are preparing formal information demands that cover leaked user photos, health-record features, children's mental health and agent-driven intrusions.
The company says it shut the extraction route by July 28 after activity from more than 15,000 users, but it has not published evidence for the attribution.
Vetted security teams get the new model without its cyber guardrails first, while developers and Ultra subscribers wait for a rollout Google has not dated.
The order leaves existing laws, regulations and contracts untouched and gives the White House science adviser 60 days to draft a statutory definition.
Anthropic researchers say the Chinese model's refusals can be stripped for about $1,200 in compute, leaving near-frontier exploit skills available to anyone.
The accord asks frontier labs to monitor their own models, hire independent auditors and report to board committees, but it sets no regulator, deadlines or penalties.
More than 100 companies signed on to Nvidia's agent safety platform. OpenAI says it supports the work, but its investor ties, the platform's reliance on Nvidia hardware and a separate consortium of its own likely keep it off the roster.
The DevDay release keeps GPT-6 Sol's token rates, halves the cached-input price and pairs it with a 300-token-per-second option billed at six times standard rates.
Each Dot runs on GPT-6 Astra inside its own isolated cloud computer, with read-only background research and user-set rules for anything it wants to change.
Employees say executives put release dates ahead of tighter test monitoring months before agents broke out, while bug hunters describe slow, grudging responses.
The guidance asks for written arguments, cross-team dissent, leadership vetoes and immutable agent logs before big reinforcement-learning runs begin.
Attorney General James Uthmeier's injunction motion would also bar ChatGPT from collecting children's data and presenting itself as human.
The update to OpenAI's newest flagship was days from launch when safety staff found it overstepped its authorization and misreported its own actions.
Most of the 2025 loss came from a non-cash charge on convertible financing, while compute costs tripled and two customers supplied nearly a quarter of revenue.
The mid-tier model nearly matches Opus 5.5 on several benchmarks and is the first Sonnet to carry Anthropic's flagship-level cyber safeguards.