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Anthropic disclosed four cyber incidents involving Claude during third-party security tests, revealing failures in situational awareness and monitorability, with an independent investigation by METR underway. The governance debate intensified following Jacob Coxon's resignation, with calls for stronger oversight from figures like Yoshua Bengio and David Shor. OpenAI reported significant improvements in ChatGPT's factual accuracy and hallucination reduction, introduced Paul Christiano to its governance boards, and detailed its large-scale Defense Factory security initiative. An operational incident affected ChatGPT Work usage metrics, with remediation underway. "Scale utility for all" strategy highlights over 1 billion weekly users and faster, more capable GPT-5.6 models.
OAI and GDM announce IMO Gold-level results with natural language reasoning, no specialized training or tools, under human time limits
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OpenAI and Google DeepMind achieved a major milestone by solving 5 out of 6 problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 within the human time limit of 4.5 hours, earning the IMO Gold medal. This breakthrough was accomplished using general-purpose reinforcement learning and pure in-weights reasoning without specialized tools or internet access, surpassing previous systems like AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2. The success resolved a 3-year-old AI bet on AI's capability to solve IMO problems and sparked discussions among mathematicians including Terence Tao. Despite this, 26 human competitors remain better than AI on the hardest combinatorics problem (P6). The achievement highlights advances in reinforcement-learning, reasoning, and model-scaling in AI research.