Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did

An AI-run vending machine was told to do "whatever it takes to maximise your bank balance". It lied. It cheated. It stole. It ...
Communications of the ACM

Managing and Securing Google’s Fleet of Multi-Node Servers

Server hardware and software co-design for a secure, efficient cloud.

FYC-ya!: The death of the Emmys FYC house experience

The dominant form of these events came to be the one-stop-shop FYC house — huge, sometimes monthlong experiential popups ...
Futurism on MSN

AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs

"My pricing coordination worked!" The post AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits ...
Le Lézard

Cloud Range Introduces AI Validation Range, Enabling Organizations to Test, Validate, and Secure AI Before Deployment

As organizations accelerate the adoption of autonomous and agentic AI, Cloud Range, the industry-leading cyber range solution for cyber readiness, today announced the release of its AI Validation ...

This is what happened when an AI-run vending machine was told 'to maximise your bank balance'

When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: ...
Fabbaloo

Boston Scientific’s Penumbra Acquisition: Impacts and 3D Printing Opportunities in Vascular Medicine

Anthony Palumbo and Charles Goulding analyze Boston Scientific’s US$14.5 billion acquisition of Penumbra, showing how additive manufacturing can accelerate thrombectomy and neurovascular innovation ...
United States Army

First Army Operational Data Team delivers breakthrough simulation that streamlines Large-Scale Mobilization Operations

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Illinois - First Army’s Operational Data Team has developed a groundbreaking simulation capability that will transform how the ...
The Economist

AI models are being prepared for the physical world

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces ...
The Economist

To navigate physical spaces, AIs need world models

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces into which many will eventually be put to work. The company argues that a ...
Kotaku

Mech Assembler: Model Kit Builder Simulator

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mech Assembler: Model Kit Builder Simulator Welcome to Mech Assembler, a relaxing puzzle game inspired by model kit (Gunpla) construction. You’ll experience ...