Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
The Latest Anthropic Claude Models Contain AI Text Watermarks: What Does This Mean for You?
If you’re an instructor for the O’Reilly live training platform, you’ve got to be prepared for the unexpected. As a developer I think we all can understand the situation when a demo (you know, the one that you’ve tested a thousand times on your machine) easily decides on its own to go wrong while be...
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies...
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from ...
IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models.
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Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method
Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens.
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Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Active Params
Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 local coding model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters. It reports 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 125+ tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro.
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Vercel Open-Sources durable-harness for Crash-Proof Coding Agents
Vercel released durable-harness, an open-source package that logs every model and tool call so Pi, OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex sessions resume after crashes, timeouts and redeploys on Vercel, Postgres or a laptop.
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Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
The State of AI Security: Threats, Tools, and Skills Gaps
Artificial intelligence has changed cybersecurity permanently. While OpenAI’s inadvertent attack on Hugging Face brought AI-generated attacks to everyone’s attention, AI has been on security professionals’ radar for a long time. AI makes attacks possible at a scale that was hard to imagine a few yea...
How we built ChatGPT’s novel ad stack for user trust and relevance
Learn how OpenAI built ChatGPT’s LLM-powered ad stack to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from answers, and deliver relevant ads at scale.
Mistral AI Releases Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS and a Voice Agent SDK
Mistral AI released Voxtral 3, a family of 3 transcription models, 1 text-to-speech model and a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 scores 2.1% AA-WER, ranking #3 on Artificial Analysis.
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Google Cloud Ships llm-d 1.0 With Cache-Aware Routing for TPU and GPU Fleets
Google, Red Hat and IBM released llm-d 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack for distributed LLM inference. It adds multi-tenant flow control, zero-downtime upgrades and agent-aware routing across vLLM, SGLang, TPUs and GPUs.
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Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion
Cover image for the e-Conomy SEA 2026 report titled Building the intelligent economy by Google, Temasek, and Bain and Company. A 3D illustration features a glowing yellow star surrounded by miniature scenes representing digital sectors, including data cen
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.