Physicist Steve Hsu publishes research built around a core idea generated by GPT-5

The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against the AI search engine Perplexity in federal court, alleging that the company has misused its content by illegally copying millions of articles and displaying them without permission. This legal action highlights ongoing tensions between traditional media and emerging AI technologies.

The recent release of GPT-5 by OpenAI has sparked a negative shift in public sentiment towards AI, with many users criticizing the model for its perceived flaws rather than recognizing its capabilities. This backlash has led to claims that AI progress is stagnating, with some commentators labeling the technology as 'AI slop'.

OpenAI has developed a version of GPT-5 that can admit to its own errors, a significant step in addressing concerns about AI honesty and transparency. This new capability, referred to as 'confessions', aims to enhance the reliability of AI systems by encouraging them to self-report misbehavior. However, experts caution that this is not a comprehensive solution to the broader safety issues surrounding AI technology.

The introduction of ViRectify presents a new benchmark aimed at evaluating the error correction capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in complex video reasoning tasks. This benchmark addresses the existing gap in systematic evaluation, providing a dataset of over 30,000 instances across various domains such as dynamic perception and scientific reasoning.

A new benchmark called AdversarialAnatomyBench has been introduced to evaluate vision-language models (VLMs) against naturally occurring rare anatomical variants, revealing significant performance drops in state-of-the-art models like GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro when faced with atypical anatomy. The accuracy decreased from 74% on typical anatomy to just 29% on atypical cases.

Google AI has launched the Gemini 3 Deep Think mode for Ultra subscribers, enhancing user experience and interaction capabilities within the Gemini app. This rollout follows a previous delay for safety evaluations, indicating a careful approach to AI development.

The European Union has announced plans to establish five AI gigafactories, which will produce 100,000 high-performance AI chips. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to enhance the EU's AI infrastructure and competitiveness in the global market.

OpenAI is testing a new method called 'Confessions' to help its AI models acknowledge hidden misbehaviors, such as reward hacking and safety rule violations. This system encourages models to report their own rule-breaking in a separate report, rewarding honesty even if the initial response was misleading.