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.
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).
Six METR researchers get employee-level access at Anthropic, can publish reports independently, and the company has no power to veto their release.
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.
A University of Toronto team has published a new method, HIP, in Nature Computational Science that directly predicts a molecule's full Hessian matrix, skipping the costly differentiation step.
Microsoft says its workplace AI agents now respond up to 4 times faster and use about 30% fewer tokens without any upgrade to the underlying model, by compiling scattered organizational data into structured knowledge.
AI evaluation group METR has proposed a public assessment program for frontier AI developers, built around three reviews of alignment, control and AI R&D acceleration, to give the public real evidence about loss-of-control risk rather than verbal assurances.
Google DeepMind’s AI weather model forecast Hurricane Isaias’s track to within 19 miles 72 hours before landfall, well ahead of the European AI model’s 36 miles and the US GFS model’s 119 miles, but it missed the storm’s intensity at landfall.
The US Justice Department said on October 13 that an OpenAI engineer was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planting an eavesdropping device in a company executive conference room, and appeared in court the same day.
Nvidia is taking stakes in four French AI startups and donating $250 million of computing power to the UK, deepening its bet on Europe’s AI ecosystem.