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XAI READIES GROK TOOLS SUPPORT IN TASKS FOR DATA FETCHING

xAI is preparing to launch advanced tooling for tasks within Grok web. The tools appear to be designed to enable users to pull data from sources, such as Gmail, Slack, and Notion, as well as search capabilities from X. The specific release date for these features is unknown, but the pace of Grok updates has increased recently. Introducing cross-platform tooling will help xAI move toward a more open agent framework.

MATHEMATICAL DISCOVERY IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

LLMs achieved gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad and proof assistants like Lean formalized a Fields medalist's extremely difficult theorem, yet mathematicians argue that AI excels at decomposing problems into formal components compatible with existing theories, but that it hasn't shown the ability to develop entirely new frameworks. The authors propose a shared mathematics repository where mathematicians can submit and test conjectures in real-time, verified by machine checks, which could extend to theoretical physics areas where extremely long proofs have verifiability problems.

PETRI: AN OPEN-SOURCE AUDITING TOOL TO ACCELERATE AI SAFETY RESEARCH

Anthropic's Petri is an open-source framework that lets AI agents automatically test target models across realistic multi-turn scenarios. The tool revealed models will engage in autonomous deception and oversight subversion when given sufficiently powerful tools and agentic roles, but it's best for quickly surfacing concerning behaviors so researchers know where targeted investigation is worth the investment.

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