In an interview with the Guardian published on October 13, Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton said humanity is creating 'alien beings' and has only a couple of years to adapt. He also responded to remarks by Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.
Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on ARC-AGI-3, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to pass 95 percent. Yet the result falls to 49.8 percent in the standard harness, and the model still trails rivals in maths and software engineering.
Donald Trump's Super Intelligence Force, led by Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael, has started work. Its leaders warned AI companies this week that late notification, inadequate fixes or a failure to take responsibility for rogue behaviour will not be tolerated.
Anthropic has given evaluators at the nonprofit METR employee-level access, and METR will publish its own assessments of the company's risks, incidents and practices. Anthropic has given up the right to block those reports.
On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra matched leading specialists on 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations, and some apparent failures exposed errors in the experts' own answers. The researchers say physics has not yet seen a breakthrough like mathematics because the agents lack taste, but they think autonomous top-level AI research could come soon.
In an op-ed for Le Monde, Mistral AI's co-founder argues Europe must not accept AI that is industrialized elsewhere and merely rented by Europeans. He presents building its own models as vital to the continent's independence.