OpenAI touts hundreds of new math results as US official warns of anti-AI ‘psyop’

Walmart is doubling down on its pledge not to use AI, customer data or digital shelf labels to set personalized prices for its shoppers.

In a public letter Monday, Dan Bartlett, Walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, challenged what he described as repeated "mischaracterizations" by Lindsay Owens, author of the recently released book "Gouged," about Walmart's pricing practices and use of technology.

"The facts are straightforward. We price products, not people," Bartlett wrote.

"Walmart does not and will not use an individual customer’s personal information, income, shopping history, urgency or willingness to pay to set an individualized price. We do not engage in dynamic pricing, raising prices in response to a hot afternoon or an approaching snowstorm, for example."

Bartlett defended the retailer's use of digital shelf labels, saying the technology does not identify customers or independently set prices.

"Digital shelf labels replace paper tags and allow approved price changes to be displayed more efficiently and consistently," Bartlett wrote. "They do not identify customers, nor do they independently set prices."

He said the ability to update prices more quickly is not evidence that Walmart uses, or plans to use, the technology for dynamic pricing.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Sophia Compton.

Workers in the U.S. who use artificial intelligence (AI) regularly in their job are seeing benefits like working more quickly or creatively, though a new study finds that those gains aren't evenly distributed across the workforce.

The American Job Quality Study, produced by Gallup, Jobs for the Future and The Families & Workers Fund from January through March, found that the majority of workers who have used AI in their job said it helps them do their jobs faster (63%), as well as to find more creative solutions to work tasks (56%).

Nearly half of respondents said it allows them to spend more time on the most interesting parts of their job (47%) or helps produce higher-quality work (46%).

However, the study also found that the benefits of using AI haven't been shared equally among workers, as workers with higher levels of educational attainment and those in managerial roles used it more than workers in other roles.

The American Job Quality Study found that college graduates were more than twice as likely as those without a degree to use AI on a daily or weekly basis, 40% to 17%, while 37% of managers and 25% of individual workers are regular AI users.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Eric Revell.

OpenAI on Wednesday announced that it's adding a college planner tool to its ChatGPT for Teens along with new study features on the platform.

The artificial intelligence (AI) giant announced that its college planner feature will launch in ChatGPT for Teens in the next few weeks, with the planner helping to organize application requirements, deadlines, tasks and financial-aid steps across the colleges the user is considering.

OpenAI's announcement said that the initial experience is being designed for U.S. students in grades 10-12 who are planning to attend a four-year college. The company plans to expand it in the future to support two-year colleges, technical colleges, trade schools and also students in other countries.

The college planner tool includes financial-aid support to help understand application requirements, track aid deadlines at specific schools they're considering, and also to explore scholarships and fee waivers.

OpenAI's College Planner is more focused on the process of how to apply to colleges, track their progress and ask questions – rather than deciding where to attend. The company says decisions about where and how to apply to college remain the subject of conversations between students, their families, counselors and prospective colleges.

Teens considering multiple colleges can update their progress in the planner, using its timeline to plan their next steps and remaining tasks. They may also ask ChatGPT questions while using the planner to better understand a requirement or suggestions on how to get started on it.

The announcement from OpenAI said that the rollout of ChatGPT for Teens saw nearly 1.2 million teens use Learning Visualizations to better understand math and science concepts, and over 180,000 used Study Mode for step-by-step learning support.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Eric Revell.

New York City council speaker Julie Menin discussed the urgent need for federal AI regulation on Tuesday.

She compared AI safety oversight to the FDA and SEC, arguing that the industry cannot self-regulate and also cannot be regulated by state or local authorities.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company is allowing more security teams to have greater access to their most powerful AI models this weeek.

The announcement is an expansion of the company's Project Glasswing, which is an effort to allow security professionals to uncover vulnerabilities in Anthropic's AI models.

The project uncovered nearly 130,000 vulnerabilities between April and July this year, according to Reuters. Of those, roughly 33,000 were rated critical or high severity.

This week's announcement will see Glasswing combined with Anthropic's existing Cyber Verification Program. Participants will be placed into three tiers of escalating access to Anthropic models.

The Defense tier covers work such as incident response and malware analysis. Security teams, critical infrastructure operators, open-source maintainers and researchers with a record of reported vulnerabilities can apply.

The Red Team tier adds authorized penetration testing and red-teaming, but only organizations can apply.

The Specialized tier has the fewest restrictions and is reserved for a small group of organizations authorized to test safety-critical systems such as power ⁠grids, ​flight systems and interbank transfer infrastructure.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson says it is imperative that the U.S. beat China in the race toward artificial intelligence on Wednesday.

Ferguson made the statement during an appearance on Fox Business, using President Donald Trump's newly coined "Super Intelligence."

Trump has said repeatedly that there will be no second place in the AI race due to the rate of advancement in the industry.

Artificial intelligence researcher Jeffrey Ladish told Fox News Digital that humanity does not have any real strategies to keep increasingly autonomous AI models and agents under control as they become more capable of hacking, cheating and ignoring instructions.

Ladish, the executive director of Palisade Research, said those skeptical of how powerful AI will become should consider how far the technology has advanced in just a few years.

"You have AI agents ... solving one of the hardest problems in mathematics that humans have been trying to solve for decades," Ladish said, referring to the Navier–Stokes problem. "Three years ago, they were solving high school level math problems."

Ladish also pointed to the rapid improvement in AI-generated images and video, arguing that people who mocked the famously distorted AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti just a few years ago might be surprised by the photorealistic outputs some models are now able to produce.

While these capability leaps may feel sudden to the general public, researchers who spent years training models at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI saw what was coming, Ladish said.

Ladish helped build Anthropic's security team from September 2021 to October 2022 before leaving to found Palisade Research, which studies whether humans can remain in control of increasingly capable AI systems.

While working at Anthropic, Ladish said, employees there were "pretty concerned" about where the technology was headed, a view he said was also shared by people he knew at OpenAI.

"If you were at Anthropic in 2022, you were seeing every training run get immensely impressive results," Ladish said.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' James Cirrone.

FOX Business correspondent Madison Alworth reported on those both eager and skeptical to embrace new shopping technology on "America Reports."

Alworth says some cutting-edge shoppers are using AI agents to find the best deals and products ahead of time.

A top official at the Department of War discussed how artificial intelligence is playing a role in war readiness strategy, and said foreign adversaries are carrying out "psyop" operations to fuel the anti-data center and anti-artificial intelligence movement across the U.S.

During an interview with Fox News Digital in the White House, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael warned that the movement to decrease production for artificial intelligence infrastructure is being pushed by America’s adversaries.

"It is natural from a propaganda standpoint that your adversary, who doesn't want you to be developing super intelligence ahead of them, is going to try to psyop your population into believing that. And to some degree, it's worked. And I think that's why you see the president push back and say, ‘no, this is a good thing,’" he said.

Michael did not make any specific accusations of foreign nations running a "psyop," however.

Data center production has been at the center of debate ahead of the midterm elections, with lawmakers taking near-partisan stances as to whether developments should continue. Michael referred to data centers as the "electricity that fuels the superintelligence revolution," and explained that continued production of facilities are a crucial part of ensuring the U.S. maintains the lead in the artificial intelligence race.

Protests have popped up across the country against data centers and artificial intelligence advancements in general, with some lawmakers raising questions about the role that foreign influence plays in the demonstrations.

"It's the same reason we saw Middle Eastern countries paying for anti-fracking movements," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital in an interview last month. "Because if they can convince America, 'Don't develop your oil and gas, just buy it from us,' well, that's great for them and terrible for us.

"The same is true on data centers. If they can convince Americans, 'You don't want data centers here, you want to just rely on the Chinese for AI,' that's great for China, and it's terrible for America."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Preston Mizell.

This is an excerpt from an opinion article by Miriam Vogel,  president and CEO of EqualAI and a former Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

The leaders of Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI recently joined President Trump at the White House to sign a voluntary accord on artificial intelligence. Its commitments are concrete: stronger internal controls, independent outside evaluation and board-level review.

The harder question, which remains to be seen, is whether it will earn the confidence of the people expected to live and work with these systems, who have been increasingly resistant to AI proliferation.

America cannot win the AI race if Americans are afraid to use AI.

I often say that one of the biggest challenges we have to fear about AI is the fear of AI itself. That fear is becoming a national liability.

In a new EqualAI survey conducted by YouGov, 46% of Americans said they would be uncomfortable with a company using AI in a way that involves them or their data, regardless of safeguards. Yet 71% said a positive experience with an AI system would increase their confidence in it, and 63% said the same of a positive evaluation by independent scientists.

That 63% is an important window into mechanisms to trust — and offers a bridge to build it. People do not want assurances; they want verification.

AI will deliver for our economy, national security and competitiveness in the ways we are envisioning only if Americans actually use it. A nurse who does not trust an AI-enabled diagnostic tool will not rely on it. A manufacturer that cannot understand what its AI agents are doing will not deploy them at scale.

That is why we need to be thoughtful when discussing "pause," because if it does not include capable competitors, such as Chinese companies, the technology continues to advance but elsewhere and without the guardrails we’d like to establish. The question we need to answer is: what will make Americans confident enough to adopt AI?

The debate is too often framed as more rules versus fewer rules. A more useful dialogue centers on how we can build the governance capacity to let AI scale.

The public is telling us we have work to do. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 73% of Americans believe AI companies have not done enough to prevent serious harm from their technology; 55% said they would support slowing AI development. The EqualAI polling points to what could change that equation: 63% want independent scientific review of AI systems, while 60% support third-party audits. Sixty-eight percent say it is essential to be able to correct wrong information, and 65% say the ability to appeal an AI-driven decision is essential.

California woman Deborah Del Mastro said she was having breakfast when a caller using a suspected AI voice clone claimed to have kidnapped her daughter.

OpenAI published proofs purporting to solve hundreds of previously unanswered math problems on Wednesday.

Company CEO Sam Altman shared a GitHub repository featuring the proofs and declared that AI is ushering in a "new era of discovery."

The company said it used an internal frontier model of ChatGPT to solve the problems. The model considered each problem for an average of three hours, the company said.

"We want this progress to push the frontier of human knowledge and enable further progress in mathematics. We will be funding a series of workshops, conferences, and special programs around the understanding of major results produced by AI—we will share more on this in the near future," OpenAI said in a statement.

"We want to directly empower scientists with state-of-the-art capabilities and are working to responsibly release the model that produced these results. This is why it is important to continue to evaluate our internal frontier models on mathematics and other sciences, so we can accelerate developing the tools to advance those fields," it added.

The Guardrails Alliance, a new super PAC targeting the AI industry, will spend $1.2 million in an effort to block AI-backed candidates in the Midterm Elections, Axios reported Wednesday.

The group has been engaged in a monthslong effort to publicize AI industry insiders who are deeply concerned about the emerging technology.

The alliance laid out a list of demands for candidates this week, saying it will target both Republicans and Democrats who don't measure up.

The group insists there must be "independent, transparent government oversight with real enforcement power" and "a mandate that addresses human impacts from safety to economic disruption."

The group also demands that "AI models are not making final decisions such as denying people health care or benefits, firing or disciplining workers, or deploying weapons."