AI — Page 18
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- AI2's FairStress tests whether LLM decisions hold under pressure
Researcher Pardis Sadat Zahraei and collaborators tested 15 models to see whether matched persuasive prompts change decisions differently across demographic groups.
- Anthropic releases 211 scorpion-toxin designs after 17 meet binding criteria
Anthropic's Claude generated 318,484 candidates in a 64-hour campaign; lab tests found binding, not evidence that any design neutralizes venom or treats a sting.
- llm-d 1.0 adds production controls for distributed AI inference
IBM says the CNCF-governed project now supports multi-tenant quality of service, failover and rolling upgrades, building on Carlos Costa's push to make AI serving cloud-native.
- DeepSeek opens its inference engine, leaving service plumbing to developers
DeepInfer targets large-scale serving and supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, but its README says a complete inference service requires components the project does not include.
- OpenAI reports benchmark gains for COBOL and other legacy-language coding
The company says GPT-6 Astra passed 72.1% of COBOL tests in its SQLite-building evaluation; its separate migration results use OpenAI-designed hidden tests.
- PhAI Labs trains research agents to improve hypotheses from their own work
Co-founder Ling Yang's DiscoveryRSI trains research agents using evidence and revision histories; its literature-match result does not show that researchers used the ideas.
- Unsloth fits DeepSeek's 552B model into a 250GB local download
The 1-bit GGUF requires at least 128GB of memory, and Unsloth's 88.2% figure measures token agreement on one test set, not general benchmark accuracy.
- Meta says Prometheus delivered 85% goodput while training Muse Wonder
The Ohio cluster's first phase trained Muse Wonder; Meta says firmware fixes have since raised its interruption interval beyond 54,000 GPU-hours.
- Skyfall AI says SKY-001 beats frontier models on CAD and BIM
Founder Sam Pasupalak says the model plans engineered objects in parts. Skyfall claims large speed, cost and accuracy gains; access is currently offered by waitlist.
- Together AI launches custom SFT and RL training for open models
The service lets developers set the training loop and keep the resulting weights, while Together supplies tuned GPU infrastructure and deployment.
- Notion lets agents run past 24 hours as it meters AI use
Co-founder Akshay Kothari says new infrastructure raises the task limit from five minutes. Business and Enterprise seats now include monthly Standard and Select credits; admins can buy more, while Notion says its AI Command Center and spending limits are coming soon.
- Zillow puts home listings in Claude and routes shoppers toward agents and loans
The connector brings listings, maps and affordability tools into Claude, while keeping Zillow's tour, agent and financing pathways in the conversation.
- DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash update tops Arena's open agent rankings at $0.20 per task
Arena's October 19th snapshot ranked the October 17th model update No. 11 overall, based on 7,498 agent sessions.
- Artificial Analysis benchmarks how 36 AI models communicate
AA-PersonalityBench ranks 30 writing traits and measures 21 style patterns, giving developers another way to compare models for different tasks.
- Meta's Muse leads ChatGPT in a 36-day app comparison, Deutsche Bank says
The comparison covers Muse's first 36 days after its September 8th launch; earlier third-party estimates also put the app ahead in its opening 12 days.
- EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's code hints at a gated way to CC Claude on email
A comparison of preserved web-client bundles shows the organization setting appeared between October 14th and October 19th. The code does not establish a customer rollout or reveal how the setting would work.
- LigandAI offers free peptide design as GLP-1 agonist contest opens
Founder Andre Watson is steering users to LigandForge and an Anthropic-Adaptyv challenge that will test selected designs for receptor activation.
- Aleksander Madry returns to OpenAI to work on AI safety and security
Madry says he will join Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki after concluding that increasingly capable AI demands a stronger focus on safety.
- Cloudflare gives structured data tasks their own AI model with Clairic
The Workers AI preview extracts, calculates and estimates typed values for $0.10 per million input tokens; Reneau previously co-founded Ensemble AI.
- Veeza AI launches a visa agent for travelers buried in paperwork
Founder Aly Moursy is taking the service from an earlier Egypt-focused beta to a broader offering that prepares applications, checks documents and books appointments.
- Firecrawl connects Gemini agents to web scraping and 100+ data providers
The integration adds Firecrawl tools to Gemini, Google's Agent Development Kit and Gemini CLI, with enterprise purchases billed through Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Cekura tests 26 speech models and finds speed does not buy naturalness
Tarush Agarwal's benchmark puts Inworld TTS-2 Flash first for full-sentence latency, while Fish Audio Drama 3 leads an automated naturalness estimate.
- Infron offers six AI model endpoints at $0 through one API
The free lineup includes DeepSeek, Qwen and other models, but Infron's standard free tier requires a $5 account balance and shares a 1,000-request daily cap.
- Grepped offers data, compute and lab access to frontier post-training teams
Founder Erik Newsham's new program bundles three resources for applicants, while its grant size, selection terms and participating labs remain unspecified.