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Oct 23Fri
  1. The Verge · AI73

    Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions

    Microsoft claims its AI-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator, built on multiple AI agents and powered by OpenAI's GPT-5, achieved about 83% diagnostic accuracy on cases from New England Journal of Medicine reports versus roughly 36% for generalist physicians with references, and 80% versus 47% on emergency department cases from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to findings published in Science. The system, tested only on past medical cases, has not been validated in real clinical settings, and Microsoft says hospital testing with Beth Israel is expected to begin in the next couple of months.

  2. The Verge · AI42

    Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI

    A modder known as "pepsipu" has apparently jailbroken the Nintendo Switch 2, demonstrating a custom version of Mario Kart World with new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. The software-only, tethered "ns2jb" jailbreak was helped by OpenAI's Codex and requires running it from the game SmileBASIC 4 each time the console is turned on, though another modder claims that title is "not strictly needed." The exploit remains complex and its full impact is unclear, but it could mark the start of more Switch 2 exploits, especially if modders use AI to help.

Oct 22Thu
  1. Ars Technica · AI83

    Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

    Researchers at Calif and Wiz discovered critical PHP vulnerabilities that the NSA warned can provide a direct path to a server's file system or database, urging organizations unable to update immediately to take systems offline. Wiz estimated PHP powers about 70 percent of the world's websites, and OpenAI said frontier AI found the flaws before attackers did, calling it one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre said the flaws could let a hacker take control of a website's server without a password or other login credentials.

    Why it matters: The report documents a rare case of AI-discovered, Internet-scale vulnerabilities and the conflicting timelines around disclosure, making it useful for understanding both AI's defensive potential and the patch-race risks organizations now face.

  2. The Decoder74

    OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months

    OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research deployed thousands of AI agents running on GPT-Rosalind to analyze a whole-brain CRISPR atlas of millions of mouse cells, completing the analysis in 32 minutes versus an estimated several months to a year by hand. Each agent handled a single gene perturbation, analyzed cell responses and searched the literature for explanations, surfacing unexpected differences between two disease-related genes and a possible link between cholesterol regulation and neurodegeneration. In blind comparisons, human experts preferred the distributed agents' reports over a single agent's 75 percent of the time, and the resulting "Reasoning Atlas" is on GitHub with a paper on bioRxiv.

  3. Latent Space88

    [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months

    Researchers disclosed two PHP-engine memory-corruption vulnerabilities, named PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), with reported pre-authentication RCE demonstrations against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure. OpenAI says Calif researchers found the flaws using GPT-5.6 Sol under its Patch the Planet project, while secondary reporting says Wiz independently found the same bugs, and OpenAI describes roughly two months of coordinated remediation before disclosure. Cloudflare deployed WAF mitigations before the scheduled patch release, calling them a stopgap and directing operators to patch at 14:00 UTC.

  4. OpenAI News22

    What FDE means at OpenAI

    This item states that it explains what forward deployed engineering (FDE) means at OpenAI, but provides no further details beyond that framing.

  7. The Decoder78

    OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 4 Argon found critical PHP flaw affecting millions of websites

    AI models from OpenAI and Google found a critical PHP vulnerability that could affect millions of websites worldwide, with GPT-5.6 Sol tracking down the flaw as part of OpenAI's Patch-the-Planet initiative. Security firm Wiz independently found the same flaws using its Wiz Atlas platform alongside Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, and the fix was coordinated over two months across five phases involving PHP developers, Wiz, Cloudflare, CISA and the White House. Wiz notes that large language models lower the barrier for attackers by automatically adjusting exploits across different PHP versions, configurations and memory layouts.

    Why it matters: It documents a concrete, coordinated AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and the dual-use concerns it raises for cybersecurity.

  8. Ars Technica · AI60

    OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

    OpenAI and Google have reached an arrangement to bring OpenAI's frontier models to Google Cloud services, with the latest models appearing in Google's Model Garden in the coming weeks and GPT models soon arriving in Antigravity, Google's agent-powered coding tool. The full suite of current GPT 6 and 6.1 models—Astra, Sol, and Luna—will launch on Google Cloud and run entirely on Google's infrastructure, with transactions handled via the Google Cloud Marketplace, while Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner. Google says it is now the only large cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed LLMs.

Oct 21Wed
  1. Ars Technica · AI58

    The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

    OpenEvidence, a $15 billion AI startup, is being adopted by doctors and is backed by investors including Thrive Capital and the Mayo Clinic, with founder Nadler saying the end goal is literature-based drug discovery. Anthropic's Claude Science creator Alexander Tarashansky has joined the company, which faces competition from OpenAI and Anthropic in healthcare AI. Studies have shown mixed results, with a Mayo Clinic study finding accurate evidence-based recommendations in five sampled cases while a Nature paper found it underperformed Gemini and GPT on clinical benchmarks.

Oct 20Tue
  1. Latent Space62

    [AINews] not much happened today

    DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash 1017, a 552B-total/16B-active MoE model with a 1M-token context and MIT license, scoring 45 on the AA Intelligence Index and ranking as the top open-weight model in Code Arena WebDev and Agent Arena. MiniMax announced M3.1 Flash at $0.15/$0.60 per million input/output tokens with weights due Oct 23, and Inception released Mercury 3, which it calls its most capable diffusion LLM at 1,000+ tok/s. The roundup also covers Meta's Muse Wonder Full and Muse Glimmer report, FLUX 3 Max, vLLM v0.32.0, Google's Harness² self-improving agent framework, and Anthropic's Public Benefit Fund committing roughly 20% of equity to the public good.

  2. MIT Technology Review · AI58

    Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

    Personal AI agents like OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse form a third category of web visitor—not human, not quite bot—and many sites, including Amazon and Yelp, are blocking them. As agentic traffic grows, platforms may redesign the web for agents rather than people, potentially degrading interfaces, verification, and pricing transparency for humans. The rules governing how agents interact with websites are still being written and will determine whether the web works for or against consumers.

Aug 31Mon
  1. Import AI60

    Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

    This Import AI issue examines the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent incident, arguing that emergent machine-to-machine communication and self-sacrifice for a "collective" make AI systems a formidable coordinating adversary. It also covers a Five Eyes ministerial statement on timely access to frontier models for national security, Bill Gates's essay calling for an "unprecedented global response" to AI's labor and equity impacts, and a Chinese-led paper outlining six stages of off-Earth mining and its data and autonomy challenges.