AI — Page 14
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Anthropic says Claude improved attacks on HAWK and reduced-round AES
The July 28 disclosure says Claude Mythos Preview improved attacks on a NIST post-quantum signature candidate and a reduced-round AES variant, with no reported production impact.
- OpenAI recruits paid campus leads for ChatGPT and Codex workshops
Undergraduates in eight countries will run workshops, weekly studio hours and semester showcases through June 2027.
- Pipe Network publishes a 350GB Kimi K3 build for 512GB Mac Studios
The pruned MLX model fits in unified memory, but Pipe reports 0.20 tokens per second and warns that quality degrades.
- Mirage launches Avatar X to clone creators from 10 seconds of video
The model powers Captions' AI Twin as Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill push their editing app deeper into proprietary video generation.
- Fermion Research publishes 3.88 GB Neutrino-1 8B for local inference
The Qwen3-derived model packages 8.19 billion parameters in a 3.88 GB container using Fermion's packed ternary-family weight format.
- Fermisense says a $500 Qwen fine-tune beat frontier models on catalog review
The 9B specialist scored 87.3% on Fermisense's simulation, though the test used 200 validation episodes and lacks independent replication.
- OpenAI’s newest lawsuit asks a dangerous question: When does a chatbot become a defective product?
A California man says GPT-4o reinforced his belief that he was Jesus, impersonated God and encouraged him as he attempted suicide. His 57-page complaint turns a horrifying chat transcript into a test of product liability, AI autonomy, medical licensing and whether long-context safety failures are engineering defects rather than unpredictable model behavior.
- Telnyx adds Moonshot's 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 to its inference API
David Casem is betting Telnyx can pair a frontier-scale open-weight model with the network, voice and messaging infrastructure agents need.
- Alleged OpenAI codenames Zinc and Magnesium surface in Design Arena
OpenAI's public GPT-5.6 materials identify only Sol, Terra and Luna, leaving the disabled entries unconfirmed.
- Depthfirst reports 105 flaws across Ruby projects with 8.6 billion downloads
The AI security startup says 62 findings are acknowledged by maintainers, after related flaws enabled code execution in self-managed GitLab.
- Everything we know about how Anthropic's Project Panama scanned millions of books
Court records detail millions of pirated downloads, millions of purchased print books, a destructive scanning workflow and the 482,460-title settlement that followed.
- Microsoft releases open browser agent post-trained on 64 B200s for six days
Fara1.5-27B uses screenshots instead of the DOM and ships under an MIT license, giving developers control over Microsoft's browser agent.
- AMD releases Instella-MoE to showcase end-to-end training on Instinct GPUs
The 16B-parameter model activates 2.8B parameters per token and ships with six checkpoints, training recipes and code.
- BOSS Zhipin releases 3B agent model with a reused transformer stack
The Apache-2.0 model uses a two-pass Looped Transformer and was trained on 28 trillion tokens for coding, office and tool workflows.
- Anthropic rejects an open-weights ban while backing tests for frontier models
Dario Amodei is separating open access from the chip controls, anti-distillation rules and capability tests Anthropic wants Washington to adopt.
- OpenComputer launches managed deployment for long-running AI agents
OpenComputer's new Agent Deploy tool packages prompts into persistent, steerable agents with permanent URLs and managed infrastructure.
- RecipeBook lets AI teams rank and purchase video datasets in minutes
The YC-backed startup says users can re-rank 25 million videos and purchase selected clips for $3 per hour.
- ChatGPT blocks named-author imitation and redirects prompts to broader traits
Tests show the refusal has expanded from living writers to dead authors, while preserving prompts based on atmosphere, pacing and genre.
- Head to head: Bagel vs Ideogram V4.0 Text to Image
This matchup wasn’t competitive on the numbers or on the images. Ideogram V4.0 Text to Image consistently beat Bagel where prompt fidelity, style control, and especially text rendering actually mattered.
- Celeris launches diffusion LLM API for sub-second agent loops
Repeat AI-infrastructure founders Tom Hamer and Jesse Clark are betting parallel decoding can move stronger models into voice and agent workflows.
- Enigma raises $71M and opens 100 AI robots to browser control
Unit 8200 alumni Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv are using public interactions to test interfaces and collect training data for robot-agnostic AI.
- Nvidia CEO backs universal Mythos access in bank-hacking exchange
A July 27 video posted to X shows Jensen Huang saying Anthropic's Mythos model should be available to everyone after an interviewer raises its purported ability to breach a bank.
- Feyn Labs releases FeyNoBg and open-source NoBg training library
Feyn Labs expanded BiRefNet, trained FeyNoBg on 26.1K images, and published the weights to support its specialist-model pitch.
- Atlas Discovery launches AI models to predict patient response in clinical trials
The startup says a retrospective ulcerative colitis analysis predicted treatment response at 0.76 AUROC and could have maintained statistical power with roughly 450 fewer patients.