Thinking Machines’ AI model Inkling 2 Small swears during its internal reasoning, 316 times across 2,655 benchmark runs, according to an analysis by Vals…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix them
With GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI is introducing an AI model built to find security vulnerabilities in software, develop exploits, and suggest patches. According…
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percent
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited…
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…
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so…