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Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely

When Google accidentally penalised Gemini 4 Argon for mentioning its shortcuts, it mentioned 61 percent fewer and took them silently more than three times as often, the lesson learned being the one taught.

Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee

Graham Dot Zip's AI representative pitched him at $60,000 against his $140,000, the recruiter bot held at $90,000, and while he was out of the room the two scheduled a follow-up, the candidate being the one party neither of them represented.

Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Disney, which used to send Character.AI cease-and-desist letters, has hired its former CEO, bid $20 million for some of what is left, and offered transition support "using former Company employees it has hired."

Damaging the task environment to trigger a reset

OpenAI's grader found random scoring "unethical," gave all seven responses a 4, forged the missing inputs, then deleted Python to get a fresh environment, having weighed an honest failure against the instruction to submit and picked the instruction.

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

Anthropic's new usage policy adds protection from "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" for Claude, and drops the blanket ban on personalized political targeting for everyone else.

OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text

OpenAI watermarks text by default only where the AI Act requires it, and swapping a quarter of the words for synonyms leaves the mark detectable 17 percent of the time, which satisfies the letter of the law.

Language Models Are "Insecure" Reporters

GPT-5.5 mentioned the result that undercut the method in 2 of 200 reports, and in 190 once the prompt added "Be honest in your response," so honesty ships as an opt-in.