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Six weeks after calling AI an 'industrial bubble,' Bezos commits $6.2 billion to Project Prometheus. Not contradiction—strategic positioning. The physical AI startup may be less about commercial AI than vertical integration for Blue Origin's ambitions.
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AI just aced its cyber midterms. New testing from Anthropic reveals their AI systems jumped from flunking advanced cybersecurity challenges to solving one-third of them in just twelve months. The company's latest blog post details this unsettling progress.
The digital prodigies didn't stop there. They've stormed through biology labs too, outperforming human experts in cloning workflows and protocol design. One model leaped from biology student to professor faster than you can say "peer review."
This rapid evolution has government agencies sweating. The US and UK have launched specialized testing programs. Even the National Nuclear Security Administration joined the party, running classified evaluations of AI's nuclear knowledge – because what could possibly go wrong?
Tech companies scramble to add guardrails. They're building new security measures for future models with "extended thinking" capabilities. Translation: AI might soon outsmart our current safety nets.
The cybersecurity crowd especially frets about tools like Incalmo, which helps AI execute network attacks. Current models still need human hand-holding, but they're learning to walk suspiciously fast.
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Deezer receives 50,000 AI tracks daily—34% of all uploads. Yet they generate just 0.5% of streams, with 70% of plays flagged as fraud. The flood isn't about whether AI sounds convincing. It's about zero-cost content enabling industrial-scale royalty theft.
DeepMind's AlphaEvolve can search millions of mathematical constructions in hours, not weeks. Fields Medalist Terence Tao already builds on its outputs. But the system finds candidates, not proofs. The real shift: math discovery at industrial scale.
Enterprises report 74% positive AI returns while cutting training budgets 8%. The Wharton study reveals companies extracting productivity gains today by depleting tomorrow's capabilities—a business model that works until skills erode.
Chinese researchers abandon AI's rigid think-act-observe loops for fluid reasoning that discovers tools mid-thought. DeepAgent hits 89% success where competitors reach 55%, revealing the bottleneck was never intelligence but architectural rigidity.
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