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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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AI in practice

Read full article about: Corporate America's favorite ChatGPT phrase doubled twice since 2024 Corporate communications teams need to sharpen their AI skills. That's the takeaway from a new analysis by ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

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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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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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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AI adoption outpacing previous technologies like PCs and internet, survey finds

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are being adopted much faster than previous transformative technologies such as personal computers and the internet, according to a new U.S. survey. The study, titled ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent

Agent TARS is Bytedance's new open-source approach for automating complex tasks by visually interpreting web content and interacting with the command line and file system. TARS is still in an ...