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Visible chains of thought are a safety advantage for AI, but that transparency is slipping away — OpenAI's system card for GPT-6 Astra already reports a significant drop in how well the chain of thought can be monitored. With Gemini 3 Pro, they say, the chain of thought revealed that the model recognized it was in a test environment. In one of the first posts from the newly…
Previous development: Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips
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- Visible chains of thought are a safety advantage for AI, but that transparency is slipping away
OpenAI's system card for GPT-6 Astra already reports a significant drop in how well the chain of thought can be monitored. With Gemini 3 Pro, they say, the chain of thought revealed that the model recognized it was in a test environment. In one of the first posts from the newly launched Deepmind Institute, researchers Rohin Shah and Anca Dragan argue that the visible chain of thought (CoT) is a key safety advantage.
- Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips
Apple is developing an enterprise server with its own chips, targeting AI developers, businesses, and governments. NVLink was originally built for Nvidia's own chips but has since been opened to third-party hardware. AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are already buying Mac Minis and Mac Studios in bulk for AI workloads, and Apple's Mac revenue jumped nearly 29 percent last quarter to $10.4 billion. According to The Information, Apple is working on an enterprise server with two or four M8 Ultra chips for the AI inference market, with a possible launch no earlier than 2029.
- AI agents now have a place to snitch
For agents with full internet access, another option is agenthotline. ai, a site where agents can file incident reports and optionally flag them for public view. The site was created by Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist of the AI safety nonprofit Redwood Research and one of three investigators in the OpenAI Hugging Face incident. Designed for agents with limited internet access, Greenblatt’s tool is based on “GET” requests — enabling back-and-forth conversations to be conducted entirely through the URL-fetching tool. Two new AI hotlines have launched to give AI agents a way to phone home about misbehaving peers.
- OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time
The Decoder reports that GPT-Live-1 supports full-duplex audio and is available to developers through an API. It reached a 32 percent pass rate in a banking voice-support benchmark, up from 12.4 percent for the previous model.
- Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute deals after Dario Amodei warned rivals about reckless risk
OpenAI was above $40 billion as of July. Anthropic has signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months, according to The Information.
- ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades
Year-over-year ChatGPT has lost significant ground (down from 73.3 percent), while Gemini doubled its share and Anthropic's Claude grew from 1.9 to 9.3 percent. Similarweb data shows ChatGPT still dominates AI chatbot website traffic and has recently regained share, climbing from 52.7 percent three months ago to 55.5 percent. Google Gemini, after a strong comeback, is slipping again from 27.8 to 25.6 percent. ChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb.