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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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Humanoid robots outrun humans at Beijing's second robot half marathon

At the second half marathon for humanoid robots in Beijing, a robot built by Honor finished in around 50 minutes, beating the human world record. The field grew from 20 to over 100 teams, with nearly ...
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Anthropic's Claude Design turns chatbot conversations into prototypes, slide decks, and marketing assets

Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a tool that creates designs, prototypes, presentation slides, and one-pagers through chat-based interaction. Possible uses include interactive prototypes, ...
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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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OpenAI's leaked memo says new "Spud" model will make all its products "significantly better"

An internal memo from OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser outlines the company's Q2 strategic direction. The document covers five core priorities for the enterprise business and takes ...
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Google Deepmind study exposes six "traps" that can easily hijack autonomous AI agents in the wild

AI agents inherit the vulnerabilities of large language models, but their autonomy and access to external tools open up an entirely new attack surface. A Google Deepmind paper maps out exactly where ...
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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...
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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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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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ASML plans to expand beyond chip lithography into advanced packaging

ASML, the world's sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines used to produce advanced chips, is looking to expand beyond its core business. That's according to a Reuters report citing ASML Chief ...