Plus: Anthropic's AI was coopted by Chinese hackers ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. It's a big deal, because today's LLMs are black boxes: Nobody fully understands how they do what they do. Building a model that is more transparent sheds light on how LLMs work in general, helping researchers figure out why models hallucinate, why they go off the rails, and just how far we should trust them with critical tasks. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it's a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. The company first demoed SIMA (which stands for "scalable instructable multiworld agent") last year.

The makers of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude claim to have caught hackers sponsored by the Chinese government using the tool to perform automated cyber attacks against around 30 global organisations. Anthropic said hackers tricked the chatbot into carrying out automated tasks under the guise of carrying out cyber security research. The company claimed in a blog post this was the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. But sceptics are questioning the accuracy of that claim - and the motive behind it. Anthropic said it discovered the hacking attempts in mid-September.

Janta Power secures $5.5 million in seed funding to expand vertical solar towers that produce 50% more energy than traditional flat panels while using one-third the land.

Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? Ukraine faces'exhausting battles' against Russia in Zaporizhia, Donetsk Russian forces pressed into Ukraine's eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad during the past week as Kyiv's military mounted a stout defence. On Tuesday, Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said almost half of the battles on a 1,200km (745-mile) front were happening in the two towns, claiming Russia has committed 150,000 troops - almost a quarter of its strength in Ukraine - to capturing them.

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Windows Recall is one of the biggest AI features Microsoft has added to Windows 11. It's useful, but it comes with some privacy trade-offs. If you're a Windows 11 user, and specifically an owner of a Microsoft Copilot+ PC that has the necessary AI processing power, you can now take advantage of Windows Recall. It works like a memory for your computer, using screenshots to keep track of everything you're doing on Windows, and then letting you search back through it. The idea is to give you something like your web browsing history, but for the whole computer.

Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot? The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered "six seven." On Halloween, our friend reported, a boy with a handmade "six seven" jersey had earned applause as he made his way through her neighborhood--a place that's a long way from Sixty-seventh Street in Philadelphia, which the rapper Skrilla may have been referencing in his song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which came out last December.

Did Women Really Ruin the Workplace? On Thursday, November 6, the New York published an op-ed video criticizing the effects of feminism on institutions and warning of the dangers of "toxic femininity." It briefly ran with the title "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" I can answer that question: yes. Specifically, me--I'm the woman who ruined the workplace.

At one point, Luis assumes that he and Esteban have been abandoned, only to realize, with a start, that their newfound friends are actually circling back to help. In such moments, we grasp the source of the story's mysterious power: a tough-minded understanding that kindness is rare yet persistent, and quite possibly an affront to the laws of nature. "Sirāt" is a chain of defiantly compassionate acts--noble human improbabilities that take on, in retrospect, an air of fatalistic inevitability. Laxe, a restless wanderer himself, knows Morocco well. He shot his first feature, "You All Are Captains" (2011), in Tangier, where he'd spent several years working at a shelter for disadvantaged children. Several of these children appeared in the movie--a formally playful collision of fiction and documentary in which Laxe, also making an appearance, slyly interrogated his European outsider-artist role. Next came "Mimosas" (2016), an elusive, arrestingly gorgeous drama about a caravan bearing a dying sheikh across Morocco's Atlas Mountains to his homeland. The film had the beauty of a travelogue and the opacity of a parable. Its most dynamic character was a fiery Muslim preacher who warned his fellow-travellers not to stray, geographically or morally.

You Won't Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon Chatbot developers and retail giants are battling over user data as they lay the foundation for a future in which AI agents can do all your online shopping for you. Ask OpenAI's ChatGPT about a product on Etsy, and chances are you can enter your payment details and buy it without ever leaving the app. Instant Checkout was one of the first features to emerge from a recent wave of partnerships between leading AI and ecommerce companies. The aim is to encourage people to hand off parts of the browsing and ordering experience to AI tools and usher in an era of agentic shopping. But while these so-called agents have started to become more commonplace, they are far from taking over as full-time virtual buyers. OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and other AI chatbot developers are still negotiating with major retail partners on the best way to limit costly mistakes by agents and the amount of product data and chat history that have to be exchanged to make these agents successful, according to executives at seven tech and ecommerce companies who spoke with WIRED.