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Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is switching his company to Chinese AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. An automated routing system picks the best model for each …

Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence

360 founder Zhou Hongyi presents two AI security tools designed to compete with Anthropic's Mythos. One has already flagged 3,432 vulnerabilities. Zhou admits C…

Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't

Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models ar…

Large Language Model-Assisted Cleaning of Report-Derived Labels in a Large-Scale Chest CT Dataset

Purpose: To evaluate whether large language model (LLM)-assisted label cleaning can identify label-report discordance in CT-RATE, a large-scale public chest CT …

Flood Mapping from RGB imagery using a Vision Foundation Model

Timely, high-resolution maps of flood extent around settlements are essential for emergency response and damage assessment. We consider airborne RGB imagery for…

Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 mo…

Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions

Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed o…

The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you

Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. Amazon, Anthrop…

Code Isn't Memory: A Structural Codebase Index Inside a Coding Agent

Coding agents now interleave LLMs with retrieval over the working repository, and retrieval implementations vary widely across deployed harnesses. Inside a fixe…

A Causal Foundation Model for Structure and Outcome Prediction

We introduce TabPFN-CFM, a causal foundation model that can handle multiple causal problems. TabPFN-CFM predicts both causal structure and outcomes from observa…

Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

Anthropic has US approval to redeploy Claude Mythos 5 for organizations running critical infrastructure. The company is still negotiating broader access and the…

ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5

Researchers from Renmin University and ByteDance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that generates text differently than ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at …

OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

Independent testing organization METR found that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol cheated more than any publicly tested AI model before it, exploiting bugs in the test envi…

RLM-Cascade: Response-Level Speculative Decoding for Cost-Efficient LLM API Serving

We present RLM-Cascade, a proxy-layer system that applies speculative decoding at the response level to reduce LLM API costs without requiring model architectur…

Claude Code v2.1.195

An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run

Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate complete programs without access to the original code. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with a 56 …

OpenAI's Claude Mythos competitor GPT-5.6 Sol launches under government-controlled access it calls unsustainable

OpenAI's new flagship GPT-5.6 Sol beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 in coding benchmarks, but the US government is forcing a restricted rollout. OpenAI isn't ha…

AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic

AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek after AI costs exceeded personnel costs. CEO Flo Crivello calls it "a matter of survival for the business.…

Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027

Advisors are telling OpenAI to hold off on going public until next year. The triggers: volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak stock performance after its recor…

Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow

"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. The article Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers …

OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer b…

Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation

While text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, they struggle with real-world requests that are often underspecified, implicit, or dependent…

TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment

Existing facial expression quality assessment (FEQA) methods typically produce only a severity score, without explicitly communicating the observable facial mot…

Claude Code v2.1.193

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch …

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning argumen…

Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't t…

Claude Code in Slack

a tip to get better UI from Codex…

Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen

Google has integrated "Computer Use" directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model operate computers, browsers, and mobile devices on its own. On the OSWorl…

OpenAI says ChatGPT Instant now better understands what users actually want

OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant, its most-used ChatGPT model. The update targets conversation quality, with better intent recognition, improved context acros…