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Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 cement Anthropic's AI lead just before its IPO
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, its most powerful models to date, in two versions: one freely available and one reserved for verified organizations. The mo…
Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do
Meta is introducing Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model, optimized for repetitive agent tasks such as tool calls, routing, and data extraction. According to Meta,…
Bytedance's Seedream 5.5 promises pixel-stable image editing across 100 rounds without color drift
Bytedance Seed has introduced Seedream 5.5, an image model built for professional production workflows. It supports stable multi-pass editing over up to 100 iterations, generates …
Disney bets on Adobe's Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its entertainment empire
Disney and Adobe are building custom AI tools together for the entertainment giant's productions. The article Disney bets on Adobe's Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its…
Tencent's AI chief says AI bioweapons are coming, but closing off models isn't the answer
Tencent chief AI scientist Vinces Yao Shunyu warns that AI will soon be able to develop bioweapons and argues for a middle ground between open and closed models. While safety filt…
Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia
Google is expanding its TPU 8 family with two specialized variants: the TPU 8tx keeps sensitive data encrypted even during processing, while the TPU 8i Max doubles compute power a…
Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang's lobby against tighter AI chip export controls
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman US intelligence agencies classify as a suspected Chinese informant. The board has launched an independe…
Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy used Claude's Opus 5.5 to filter 43 million Hacker News comments into 6,454 curated videos. The result beats YouTube's own recommendations, he sa…
The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate
Consciousness researchers Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature commentary that today's AI systems aren't conscious and won't become so on silicon hardware. Th…
The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Twor…
AI coding agents still need human cleanup on nearly three out of four tasks in a real-world test
Alibaba's new coding-agent benchmark, Co-Design Bench, tests AI agents on real user requests that already tripped them up in practice. Even GPT-6 Astra, the top performer, fully s…
Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation
Despite the tech selloff, Anthropic is pressing ahead with its IPO at a valuation of $1.25 to $1.75 trillion, well below the hoped-for $2 trillion. The Claude developer aims to ra…
AI auditors catch most agent misbehavior but flood reviewers with false alarms, new study finds
AI models can often spot problematic behavior by other AI agents in logs, according to a study by Anthropic researcher Andy Hall. GPT-5 found about 98 percent of reward-hacking ca…
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs
Thinking Machines' AI model Inkling 2 Small swears during its internal reasoning, 316 times across 2,655 benchmark runs, according to an analysis by Vals AI. The profanity typical…
The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinking
In the Vals AI benchmark, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol Daybreak hits 80.8 percent of attack objectives in simulated corporate networks. Worse, the open-weight model DeepSeek V4.1 Flash reac…
State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away
Nous Research retrained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to produce Arete-27B, largely stripping out its pro-Chinese bias. The propaganda rate dropped from 22 percent to less than one percen…
Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar
The "Into the Unknown" benchmark tasks nine AI agents with tackling open research questions from U.S. national laboratories. None of the 135 submissions meets all requirements. A …
Google's AI detects high blood pressure from a regular smartwatch without a cuff
Google Research built an AI that spots signs of high blood pressure using only the pulse and motion sensors in a standard smartwatch, no cuff needed. In a 196-person study, its 65…
OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital
OpenAI has secured $11 billion in fresh capital, the first tranche of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. The full round could swell to $20 billion. That OpenAI is …
OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capitalround but now has to court dentists for more capital
OpenAI has secured $11 billion in fresh capital, the first tranche of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. The full round could swell to $20 billion. That OpenAI is …
Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model
Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. model…
How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday —…
Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent
Perplexity is launching "Teammates," always-on agents that work through ongoing projects on their own virtual machines. The feature requires the Max plan at $200 per month, well a…
Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets
OpenAI is talking about the AGI era, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. At the same time, co-creators of today's models are leaving OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Met…