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Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2

Our most capable models for daunting technical work, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 set a new bar in coding, finance, and the sciences.

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.

Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub

"Do not ask again" prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared.

Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure

Learn how OpenAI’s Control Room tracks model workloads across our research infrastructure and can rapidly stop them when safety or security concerns arise.

Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plans

The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features

After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro with an option to "Buy More Usage" for a one-time purchase price of $49.99, as spotted by 9to5Mac. It has a built-in AI assistant to do things like "start a new song, set […]

ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace

ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing relationships.

Apple is racing to make Siri more agentic

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it's […]

Elvis and Eminem rights holders are suing Suno

Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists. The lawyers in the Presley suit claim that Suno has violated Tennessee's […]

Decision Context: Persistent Behavioral Learning for AI Agents

arXiv:2611.08644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents do not learn from corrections across sessions. A user fixes the same mistake at the start of every conversation. Existing agent memory systems primarily handle facts, such as preferences, entities, and conversational history, rather than procedural knowledge. We present Forge Decision Context (forge_dc), a system that captures behavioral…

AlterNet: Adaptive-Depth Mixture-of-Experts with Learned Halting for Elastic Inference

arXiv:2611.08741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most LLM architectures have fixed compute demands determined at training time. We propose a novel architecture that combines the Mixture-of-Experts architecture with shallow experts and a novel dynamic-depth system to make the extent of a forward pass dynamically adjustable. Our approach lets the model automatically determine the compute needed for…

World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know

Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to navigate reality.

Hide your slop PR descriptions behind

Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished result. Today's coding agents are great at writing PR descriptions. They're too good at describing the work The problem…

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 reaches 72.8 percent at a tenth of the cost. Because open models can no longer be restricted, analysts say the window for defenders is shrinking fast. The article The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber…

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 percent, while general capabilities remained intact in tests. The method relied on 53 million tokens of supervised fine-tuning. The political bias is "applied late, it is applied thin," the team writes. The article State…

Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent

Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.

China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang

China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and "potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China." Megaspeed […]

The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

https://archive.is/AaY5O https://businessexaminer.ca/victoria-articles/item/microsoft... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406563 Points: 205 # Comments: 106

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 total of 114 papers fail the integrity check, with agents claiming to have conducted experiments that never took place. GPT-6 Astra performs best but still doesn't meet the experts' standards. The article Nine AI agents…

Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.

The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China

Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company's H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times, New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, "a hollow gray shell […]

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 already turning to wealthy private investors hints at a saturating AI capital market and growing investor caution. The article OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital…

GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents

Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation

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. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple falls behind the likewise newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small. The article Ripple-65B…

Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M

Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.

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 65.8 percent detection rate beat the traditional in-office measurement. The method is already live in the Google Health app, though it doesn't replace a formal diagnosis. The article Google's AI detects high blood…