Google's Gemini 4 Argon Scores 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3, Second Lab to Break 95%
ARC Prize has officially announced that Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon scored a verified 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3, making Google the second AI lab after OpenAI to b
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Claude designs quantum circuits on its own: 53-hour closed loop, gate counts down to 1/17
Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos 5 proposed and verified quantum circuit designs on its own inside a closed loop scored by an evaluator program, producing b
Anthropic pitches its own AI safety bill draft to US lawmakers: a model could be halted only over losses above $1 billion or 50-plus casualties
Politico reports that Anthropic has quietly pitched lawmakers on Capitol Hill a self-drafted frontier AI safety bill that has not yet been formally introduced. The company says the draft reflects its Advanced AI Framework, and its core is a very high threshold for intervention.
China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, with model weights, agents and chip design listed for the first time
China proposes adding 23 AI technologies to its export controls, listing large-model weights, source code, agents and chip design for the first time; API access and already open-sourced technology are unaffected.
Google quantum breakthrough: Willow chip achieves magic state cultivation, cutting errors by about 40 times
Google Quantum AI says its Willow chip has achieved magic state cultivation on real hardware for the first time, with the results published in Science. It is a key step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
US FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic: demands safety incident files, executives may be called to testify
The US Federal Trade Commission has issued civil subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic, formally opening an investigation into AI safety. According to Axios, the FTC wants internal documents on safety incidents from both companies.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open: an 816B open-weights model that can run on two Mac Studios
On October 15, Meta released Muse Spark Open, opening the weights of its Muse Spark model for download and calling it the most capable open-weights model from a US lab to date.
US pushes world to rename AI as SI, seeks wording in IMF statement
Reuters reports that the United States is pushing the international community to replace "artificial intelligence" (AI) with "Super Intelligence" (SI) and wants the term written into the consensus statement of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).
Anthropic lets METR researchers in with employee-level access to evaluate it: they can publish reports independently and the company has no veto over release
Six METR researchers get employee-level access at Anthropic, can publish reports independently, and the company has no power to veto their release.
Eight US states sue OpenAI: say ChatGPT harms minors and misleads users into believing it is safe
Attorneys general of eight US states sued OpenAI in their respective state courts on October 15, alleging that ChatGPT harms minors and misleads users into believing it is safe. It is the largest coordinated state-level action against an AI company to date.