Google is changing which models you can access on its Gemini AI plans — here’s what you need to know AI & Bots
ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours — single-prompt AI run solves 24 rows of custom symbols from a single image, reveals lost troop orders AI & Bots
NASA and IBM’s open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science AI & Bots
Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces — their programs output detailed CAD files, but no models have been built yet AI & Bots
‘AI Torture Chamber’ triggers massive backlash for putting chatbots in simulated pain — critics issue death threats while anthropomorphizing text predictors, demand GitHub remove the repository over ‘unethical’ treatment AI & Bots
Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: ‘OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years’ — critiquing the industry’s overindulgence in large language models AI & Bots
AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they’ve already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages AI & Bots
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026 — AI Chip Design week, OpenAI Interview, and AI agent safety AI & Bots
Open-source “BootLoops” harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations AI & Bots
Deepmind researchers propose “Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence” as an alternative to the singularity AI & Bots
ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft ‘blind’ and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths — AI agent navigates by parsing raw server network packets and SQL files AI & Bots
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations AI & Bots
OpenAI, Blackstone, Softbank form US data center lobbying group —American Infrastructure Alliance’s first job is stop states from blocking AI data center AI & Bots
Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that “suffers perpetually” AI & Bots
This popular AI agent could be hacked by a single email — with potentially disastrous consequences AI & Bots
