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
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 …
OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model — OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …
DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration — US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic PBC has resolved its long-running issues with the Trump administration but a top Pentagon official begs to differ.
OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas — OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a “generational leap” and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.