A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI…
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Block’s new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first.…
OpenAI’s isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and…
Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than…
Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth…
Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company’s internal monitoring system for AI agents and…
Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK’s AISI, Mythos 5…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us
Sam Altman believes advanced AI can’t be kept locked up forever. Sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. Eventually, the only real solution is…
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model
Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. The article Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image…
Anthropic’s Claude now writes code and proves it safe automatically
Anthropic had Claude generate mathematical proofs that existing code is correct, producing roughly 180 million lines of proof code for 123 open-source…