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Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices
Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced. The article Anthropic gives METR inside acces…
Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs r…
Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with …
Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need
Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But th…
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open model built to run enterprise AI agents nonstop
With Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nvidia is releasing an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters for enterprise agents. Two compact Bolt models bring agents to local machines.…
Bank of America puts 4,000 people on fixing vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos and other AI models
Bank of America has hired 1,000 outside contractors to fix software vulnerabilities uncovered by AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, CNBC reports. The article Bank of America puts …
GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 physics research problems at $2.40 apiece
On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations as accurately as leading specialists. In some cases where the agent seemed …
Anthropic's Q3 revenue hits $16.8B but growth slows ahead of planned November IPO
Anthropic hit $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue, a 45 percent gain that still falls far short of Q2's 140 percent surge. With a November IPO approaching, some investors now e…
Google says self-improving AI isn't anywhere close
Google engineer Haydn Belfield says there's no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI at Deepmind. AI now writes more than 75 percent of production code, but 88 perce…
Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The agents, running on Tence…
OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work
OpenAI is racing to finish its next flagship model, which uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra to boost math and coding performance. The tradeoff is that looping ma…
Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced $2 billion in European investments and new stakes in French startups like Doctolib and Entalpic. The UK gets $250 million in compute for AI agent…
AI guardrails designed to stop hackers are now blocking defenders, and Orion-1 aims to fill the gap
Artemis Security's new Orion-1 model is purpose-built for cyber defense and beats Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the company's own benchmark. The model fills a growing gap as ge…
Alleged OpenAI spy vibe-coded a surveillance device using his wife's chatbot account
A Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI was arrested for allegedly planting an audio recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, inside the company's executive conference…
406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately
406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter re…
Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model
Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claud…
Machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan dismantles AI doom rhetoric as "grand moralizing performance"
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of…
Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy
Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. If none steps up, the platform shuts down. Founded by ex-Google researchers, the company once had over 20 million…
Western mathematicians fear AI makes them dumber while China builds an entire alliance for it
While 25 Fields Medal winners in the West warn against AI-generated proofs and parts of the community call for a boycott, China is going on the offensive. Fields Medal winner Shin…
Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation
Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhi…
Anthropic study warns that small AI models could soon replicate across everyday devices
Small AI models may be just months away from spreading on their own across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums, according to a new Anthropic study. In…
Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier
Meta's new Muse Wonder models rank in the top three on six out of ten benchmarks, with the biggest gains in agentic tasks. But the cost per task has nearly tripled. The article Me…
Sakana AI's self-improving model gets better at solving and judging, but can't catch its own blind spots
Sakana AI's MASS method lets one language model improve itself by solving tasks, judging results, and refining workflows, reaching a win rate of nearly 70 percent against the base…
Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions
Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents get trapped in what they call "idea basins" because of their growing chat context, local solution regions they can't escape. …