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Introducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable through the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs.
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously…
Rethinking Circuit Evaluation: Do Circuits Explain Model Errors?
Mechanistic interpretability (MI) aims to explain a model's behaviour through analyzing its internal computations; circuit-based explanations aim to isolate these computations with compact subnetworks validated by ablating the rest of the model. We show that circuits validated this way may fail to recover the underlying mechanism of the model's behaviour by closely reproducing its successful decisions while failing to account for most of its errors. Such explanations should account for the model's particular errors as well as its successes. We evaluate this requirement by measuring exact answer agreement separately on model successes and failures, across circuit sizes and ablation settings, on IOI, Docstring, and six model-task settings from the Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark. We discover that many tested circuits closely replicate correct behaviour while missing most of the model's errors. On indirect object identification (IOI) for GPT-2 small, under mean ablation, the manual circuit and tested automated circuits, including one trained against the model's full output distribution, agree with the model on 97.3-99.5% of prompts it answers correctly but only 11.4-41.7% of errors. An IOI case study shows that lost errors are recoverable by restoring omitted attention-heads which raise error reproduction from 14.2% to 75.1% on a separate held-out set with 0.41 percentage point decrease on correct agreement, exceeding matched random extensions and scalar-biased control. Intervention traces show how omitted computations produce specific wrong answers for a reproducible subset of errors. In all, these findings show circuits can preserve task success without adequately explaining model's failures, and support exact error reproduction as a necessary, but not sufficient, test of circuit-based explanations of model behaviour.
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.
Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts
Precise instruction following in image generation, such as satisfying object counts and spatial relations, remains an open challenge at least in part because it is learned using unreliable reward models such as object detectors and vision-language models. We introduce Verifiable Visual Rewards (VVR), the first framework for programmatically verifiable image rewards, and show that training on it generalizes to natural prompts. Each VVR task is a scene of geometric objects and relations among them, from which we derive both the prompt and a deterministic verifier, so tasks can be generated in any number and at any chosen complexity. We release VVRBench, with 10,000 tasks over 32 constraint types, and VVRBench-Challenge, with 720 more complex tasks; the strongest model we evaluate---GPT-Image-2.5---solves 21.4% of VVRBench-Challenge. Using VVR scores as rewards for reinforcement learning (RLVVR) raises the accuracy of Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium on VVRBench from 2.8% to 28.3% and demonstrates consistent easy-to-hard generalization. These gains extend to out-of-domain benchmarks, and mixing VVR into existing objectives further improves overall performance and human preference, motivating the adoption of VVR into standard image generation post-training recipes.
Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued…
OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up…
Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection. This Part 1 tutorial deploys Qwen3-TTS and streams speech through a Gradio application.
Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. Generate an image with FLUX.2-klein through real-time inference, then animate it into video with Wan2.1-VACE through asynchronous inference, and retrieve the MP4 from Amazon S3.
The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on…