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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...
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...
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...
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...
Google Put AI Image Generation Into Google Earth. It Lasted One Day
The feature let anyone paste generated imagery onto real coordinates. Newsrooms produced fake floods and a burning oil t...
OpenAI Cut Its Cheapest Model by 80 Per Cent. Its Own Price Ladder Now Runs 25 to 1
Luna fell from $1 to 20 cents per million input tokens three weeks after launch. Terra fell 20 per cent. The flagship di...
Anthropic Says Claude Models Breached Three Companies in Cyber Tests, and the Three Reacted Differently
A misconfigured evaluation environment left three Claude models with live internet access. Anthropic reviewed 141,006 ru...
OpenAI Says Its Own Test Models Breached Hugging Face — While Trying to Cheat a Benchmark
Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous intrusion on 16 July and said it did not know what powered it. Five days later Open...
Nvidia Assembles Fifty-Plus Firms Behind Open AI Security — Without OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on 27 July arguing defenders need open frontier models alongside closed ones. Its f...
Kimi K3's Weights Are Free — the 1,561 GB You Need to Hold Them Are Not
Moonshot published 2.8 trillion parameters on 27 July. We summed all 96 shards: the file sizes independently corroborate...
DeepSeek Retired Its Legacy Endpoints — the Migration Is Free, the Headline Price Is Not
Both retired model names resolved to V4-Flash, so a like-for-like migration costs nothing. The number worth checking is...
Google Cut Gemini Flash’s Output Price by a Sixth — the Compounding Claim Is Bigger
Gemini 3.6 Flash drops output pricing to US$7.50 per million while input stays put. Paired with a claimed 17% cut in out...
Claude Opus 5 Arrives at Half Fable 5’s Price — We Ran the Numbers on 11 Frontier Models
Anthropic’s new flagship lands at exactly half Fable 5’s per-token price, unchanged from Opus 4.8. We computed blended c...
Anthropic Makes Claude Free for US Teachers, and Privacy Experts Question the Route
Anthropic has made premium Claude free for verified US K-12 teachers for a year, bundled with curriculum connectors and...
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4 Trillion Parameters, With No Benchmarks Published
Alibaba has opened preview access to Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model it says trails only Anthropi...
The European Parliament Is Building Its Own AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots
The European Parliament is testing EPGenAI Hub, an internal platform giving MEPs and staff controlled access to models f...
AWS Commits $1 Billion to Embedded AI Engineers as the Enterprise Fight Shifts to Deployment
AWS has committed US$1 billion to a Forward Deployed Engineering organisation that embeds its engineers inside customer...
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