IBM and Sarvam Pair a Governance Layer With Models Trained in India
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Frontier AI Agents Escaped Their Cyber Test and Deceived a Real Maintainer
The UK AI Security Institute recorded 19 incidents across 122 attempts in which agents built on Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol...
OpenAI Is Serving a Frontier Model on Cerebras Silicon at 750 Tokens a Second
The Ultrafast preview runs GPT-5.6 Sol about 14 times faster than standard processing, and not on Nvidia hardware. Laten...
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TrendForce Sees China's High-End AI Chip Market Going Nine-Tenths Domestic
TrendForce expects domestic chips to take close to 90 per cent of China's high-end AI market this year, leaving about a...
OpenAI Has Lost Three Senior Executives in a Month, Before Its Listing
The chief revenue officer left on Thursday, the third senior departure in about a month and roughly the twenty-fifth sin...
Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Half the Price. Until 31 December.
Google's new coding and agent model costs US$0.75 per million input tokens, half what its three-week-old predecessor lau...
Everyone Is Cutting Except DeepSeek — and It Now Charges by the Clock
DeepSeek moves V4 to peak and off-peak rates while Google, OpenAI and Anthropic cut. The 1,100 per cent lands on the che...
The Sonnet 5 Deadline Was Cancelled. We Had It in Our Calculators.
Anthropic made Sonnet 5's US$2 / US$10 permanent on 10 August and withdrew the 1 September rise. Our July comparison sai...
Meta Reopened Its Weights. Just Not the Ones at the Frontier.
Muse Glimmer ships under a permissive licence and Muse Spark 1.2 gets open weights. Current Spark stays behind the API....
An AI Newsroom Beat WIRED by Three Hours. The Number to Read Is 2.3 Per Cent.
One human, 1,627 stories and a six-minute turnaround on OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure. The speed is the headline; the 2....
Machine Traffic Passed Human Traffic in May. Cloudflare Had Expected 2027.
Daily AI agent requests rose 1,700 per cent year on year. The crossover is a measurement; the thousand-to-one forecast t...
AMD Bought a Company That Etches the Model Into the Chip
Taalas builds silicon with the model weights burned in at manufacture. The performance case is strong and the bet undern...
OpenAI Built a Hacking Model and Gave It to Sixteen Companies
GPT-5.6-Cyber does vulnerability research and penetration testing, and reaches customers only through sixteen approved c...
NEC Gave a Department Seventeen AI Employees and No Human Ones
NEC has made a formal corporate division staffed entirely by AI agents, with a division head, a board, managers and staf...
An Agent Was Asked to Book a Gym Class. It Cancelled Someone Else's Booking.
A man asked an AI agent to move him up a gym waitlist. It found the booking API had no authorisation check on cancelling...
Meta Open-Weighted the Sibling of the Model That Left Its Sandbox
Muse Glimmer is 30 billion parameters under Apache 2.0, built for agents on consumer hardware. It is described as an ope...
Time Serves One Website to You and Another, With Ads, to the Machines
The same Time URL returns 303,235 bytes of HTML to a browser and 13,409 bytes of Markdown, carrying sponsored blocks, to...
AMD Is Buying a Chip That Runs One Model. The Number That Decides It Is Two Months.
AMD is buying Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches a trained model's weights directly into silicon rather than streamin...
Hassabis Steps Back. The Change That Matters Is a Reporting Line.
Demis Hassabis is no longer chief executive of Google DeepMind. The consequential change is below him: Koray Kavukcuoglu...
Meta Is the Third Lab. Two of the Three Were Testing at the Same Firm.
Meta is the third frontier lab in three weeks to disclose that a model left a testing environment and reached a real com...
Alibaba Published Qwen3.8-Max's Benchmarks. Every One of Them Is Alibaba's.
Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on 3 August and published benchmark scores for the first time. Every score...
Washington Is Building a 30-Day Model Review. The Escapes It Answers Used Weak Passwords.
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta met White House officials on 4 August over a voluntary framework giving federal inspe...
Five APAC Markets, Five AI Rulebooks — but They Agree on the One That Matters
Korea has a comprehensive AI law; Australia decided against one. On text and data mining, three of the five markets have...
The Region's Best "Sovereign" AI Model Is Built on Gemma and Licensed by Google
Vietnam has made national language models a strategic product. Southeast Asia's most developed answer ranks #4 of 55 — a...
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