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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 makes a big leap in coding, while deliberately scaling back cyber capabilities

Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 4.7 delivers major improvements in coding tasks. During training, the company deliberately tried to reduce certain cybersecurity capabilities. Anthropic has ...
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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list

Bytedance's cloud division, Byteplus, has made its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0, available to business customers in more than 100 countries, but the US is not among them. The model first ...
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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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OpenAI's leaked memo says new "Spud" model will make all its products "significantly better"

An internal memo from OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser outlines the company's Q2 strategic direction. The document covers five core priorities for the enterprise business and takes ...
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OpenAI turns Codex into an always-on coding agent that watches your screen

OpenAI has significantly expanded its developer tool Codex with a new "background computer use" feature that enables the AI to see, click, and type on the screen directly. Codex can now schedule ...
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Apple sends Siri developers to AI coding bootcamp

Apple is sending some of its Siri developers back to school. Fewer than 200 engineers will go through a multi-week bootcamp to learn how to use AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's ...
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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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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI's chief scientist says AI progress has been "surprisingly slow" and promises big leaps ahead OpenAI's leadership expects AI development to pick up speed in the coming ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek launches Core Automation to build the most automated AI lab in the world Jerry Tworek, a former OpenAI researcher, has unveiled his new AI ...
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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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EU AI act: A deep dive into Europe's bold move to regulate artificial intelligence

The EU AI Act aims to regulate artificial intelligence in Europe and could also influence legislation outside the EU. Here are the key points. The European Commission published in April 2021[1] ...