The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by…
r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers and more
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by…
Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley Introduce TokenGate: Token-Gated Attention Makes Long-Context Prefill Up to 11.3x Faster
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a drop-in learned token pruning module for LLMs. It cuts long-context prefill time-to-first-token…
Anthropic Launches OSS Scanner, a Free AI Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects. The Anthropic OSS Scanner runs the company’s…
Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings
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Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI’s impact on the web, follow Emma Roth.…
AI21 Labs Releases LIFT-Bench to Curb Reward Hacking in RL Training
AI21 Labs released LIFT-Bench on October 25, 2026, an instruction-following benchmark in which every constraint is scoped to one section of a document and…
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia’s new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that…
Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture…
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every…
OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic’s biggest customers
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic’s customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they’ve cut AI costs by up to 90 percent…
OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Smartphone agents don’t get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind…
Anthropic Investigates Elevated Errors Across Five Claude Models
Anthropic opened an investigation into elevated errors affecting five Claude models on October 25, 2026, posting an incident on the Claude Status page at…
Microsoft Open-Sources Agensh: A Multi-Agent Harness for 1,024 Agents
Microsoft Research open-sourced Agensh, a multi-agent harness with no central orchestrator. Self-organizing workers share a Git repo, chat and a findings…
Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Systems against Recent Cybersecurity Threats
Cognition released the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, 3 MIT-licensed agent skills that inventory, patch and test PHP, Node.js and self-managed GitLab…
How to Run Underdog Saluki 27B: 2-Bit Qwen3.8-27B Tool-Calling Guide
Explore a complete coding guide comparing Underdog Saluki 27B with ISTA’s GSQ-RCO quantization, examining GGUF headers, memory usage, and BFCL…
Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC’s Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were…