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Open-weight Kimi K2.6 takes on GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 with agent swarms

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model. It's built to match GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, and it can run up to 300 agents in parallel. Moonshot AI says K2.6 ...
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Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic

Google Deepmind has formed a dedicated team to strengthen the coding capabilities of its Gemini models, particularly for complex tasks like building new software from scratch. The move comes after an ...
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Claude Mythos is a wake-up call for Europe's AI safety apparatus

Anthropic is restricting access to Claude Mythos, an AI model it says can find security vulnerabilities better than most humans. European authorities have almost no visibility into the system, while ...
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Claude Mythos can autonomously compromise weakly defended enterprise networks end-to-end

The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has evaluated Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview for its cyber-attack capabilities, finding that the model achieved a 73 percent success rate in expert-level ...
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Read full article about: Beijing brands Meta's Manus acquisition as "conspiratorial" and bars founders from leaving China China's National Security Commission, led by President Xi Jinping, has branded ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly teases a "very strong" model internally that can "really accelerate the economy"

OpenAI has reportedly finished pretraining its new AI model, codenamed "Spud," CEO Sam Altman told employees in an internal memo, according to The Information. Altman said the company expects to have ...
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Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder from OpenAI

Jeff Bezos' startup Project Prometheus has hired Kyle Kosic, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI who most recently worked at OpenAI, the Financial Times reports. Kosic led the infrastructure behind xAI's ...
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Meta's hyperagents improve at tasks and improve at improving

Researchers at Meta and several universities have developed "hyperagents," AI systems that don't just solve tasks, but also optimize the very mechanism they use to get better. The approach works ...
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Meta employees compete for token consumption on an internal AI leaderboard

Meta has an internal ranking system where employees compete for the highest AI token consumption. One employee built a leaderboard on the company intranet called "Claudeonomics" that tracks ...
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Anthropic hires Microsoft's Azure AI chief to fix its infrastructure problems

Anthropic has hired Eric Boyd, a senior Microsoft executive, as its new head of infrastructure, Bloomberg reports. Boyd previously ran Microsoft's AI Platform, which powers the deployment of large ...