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Researchers Introduce AlphaDiana, a Modular System for Measuring AI Agents
A new paper out this week makes a blunt claim: giving a language model tools and memory does not reliably make it smarter, and nobody has had a clean...
ControlAI’s Connor Leahy: Superintelligence Is an ‘Adversary,’ Not a Weapon
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach in recent weeks gave a preview of what happens when AI systems slip past the guardrails companies build for them.
ACRouter's AI model selector beats Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost
Enterprises running AI at scale rarely stick to one model. They split traffic across GPT-5.5 for hard reasoning, cheaper open-weight models like Kimi...
Estonian institute benchmarks AI models' vulnerability to Russian propaganda
The Institute of the Estonian Language just graded sixty AI models on a critical new subject: Kremlin propaganda.
Nvidia's Switchyard Router Cuts AI Task Costs to a Third
Nvidia shipped two products on Tuesday aimed at a problem every company running AI agents eventually runs into: send every task to a frontier model...
AI Firms Warn Government of Automated Research Risk
Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines have signed a joint statement asking Washington to step in as...
Perplexity's 9B AI Model Scores 92.4% on MADQA Benchmark
Perplexity put two new embedding models on Hugging Face this week, and the size gap between them is the whole story.
DeepSeek Desktop Apps Add Developer Tools and Public URL Option
DeepSeek pushed out an official desktop app for its open-source agent harness, dsh, packaged inside the v0.2 preview release.
Report: Nvidia to Buy AI Model Hub Hugging Face for USD 13 Billion
Nvidia is close to buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a report from The Information that cites a person with knowledge of the...
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 Coding Model Leads Open-Weight Pack on SWE-Bench
Poolside shipped Laguna S 2.1 this week, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Qwen Open-Sources zg, a Local Search Tool Combining ripgrep and Vector Search
Ask any coding agent how it spends its tool budget and search comes up fast. Ripgrep nails exact symbol lookups in milliseconds, but the moment a...
z.ai's GLM-5 logs record low hallucination rate, beats Moonshot's Kimi K2.5
Every new AI model claims to beat the last. This one might. Z.ai's open-source GLM-5 just posted a record-low hallucination rate.
Newsom Orders AI Safety Review With Kill Switch Consideration
Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday that puts California on a path toward requiring a "kill switch" for frontier AI models, along with a...
OpenAI slows model development amid rising cybersecurity risks
OpenAI put a two-week hold on reinforcement learning training this fall, and its largest planned frontier RL run is still sitting on ice.
False AI Intelligence Nearly Triggers US Military Operation
Fighter jets and support aircraft were already airborne this spring, closing on a Chinese vessel the U.S.
Hugging Face Launches USD 399 Microduck Robot Amid Reported Nvidia Acquisition Talks
Hugging Face put a duck robot up for sale on Thursday, and it costs $399. The Microduck stands 25 centimeters tall, waddles around on two legs, picks...
SMG releases smg-grpc-proto on PyPI; vLLM integrates via PR #36169
Multimodal AI is slow for a boring reason. Python is in the way. Before any image reaches the brains of a model like Llama 4 Vision, it gets chewed...
OpenAI Details New Safety Systems After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI published its official report on the Hugging Face breach Wednesday, more than a month after news of the incident first surfaced.
Trump Administration Weighs Ban on Chinese AI Models
The Trump administration doesn't need a formal ban to keep Chinese AI models out of the US market.
Akamai Proposes SAFE Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Threats
The Linux Foundation released a Request for Comments today on Shared AI Findings Exchange, a proposal to turn agentic AI security incidents into...