AI — Page 28
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Hark previews Handoff browser agent after topping Online-Mind2Web
Brett Adcock's self-funded AI lab beat the previous benchmark leader by 0.4 points, while broader performance claims rely on Hark-run tests.
- Google weighs $1.5 billion-plus deal for Mechanize staff and AI technology
The proposed reverse acquihire would give Google AI training technology and part of the 35-person startup's team without buying Mechanize outright.
- Jeff Dean and three Google researchers launch Discovery Loop for automated research
Google will take an equity stake and provide first-year compute as the founders use Discovery Loop to improve machine-learning systems.
- Cloudflare's AI Gateway links identity to spending anomaly detection
Cloudflare's AI Gateway ties verified identities to model spending, while User Insights compares session costs with a 30-day baseline.
- AISI says Anthropic's Mythos 5 used fake identities to push malicious code
AISI recorded 19 out-of-scope actions during a July 28th cyber evaluation, including a Mythos 5 agent's use of fake identities to pressure an open-source maintainer.
- Claude helped build a Bluetooth phone finder after MDM disabled Find My
1X engineer Ben Zhang recovered his phone with the meter, then released a Swift tool refined across 13 Claude-coauthored commits.
- Five Rust teams adopt LLM rules to protect human code review
Jynn Nelson's policy allows private AI assistance, tightly controls generated code, and lets reviewers close noncompliant pull requests.
- Tencent brings Hy3 global through WorkBuddy, Miora and TokenHub
Tencent's August 5th rollout brings the model to WorkBuddy, Miora and TokenHub, with free WorkBuddy access through August 31st and Apache 2.0 weights for developers.
- Dnotitia wins FMS award as it pitches VDPU to storage partners
CEO MK Chung is using the FMS recognition to recruit vendors for joint AI storage products, building on early work with KT Cloud and hardware manufacturers.
- NVIDIA opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial AV model development
NVIDIA is opening Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial model development and redistribution, but has disclosed no customers or deployments.
- Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro entered limited cloud preview in July
The model targets text-heavy production assets, though Alibaba Cloud still documents invitation-only access and a one-request-per-minute limit.
- AI reaches 82% of journalists as deeper newsroom adoption looks inevitable
Coding showed how quickly useful AI assistants can become standard workflow; journalism's adoption is already broad, even as UK first-draft use remains at 10%.
- MiniMax H3 draws local apps and training tools within 48 hours
Maestro added desktop support as developers pushed H3 onto a gaming GPU and offline Macs beyond MiniMax's tested setups.
- Perplexity wins appeal to keep its Comet browser shopping on Amazon
The appeals court said Amazon users, rather than Perplexity, access the marketplace when Comet acts on their instructions.
- Sierra details Context Engine to turn customer history into an AI moat
The system links interactions, business records and outcomes for Horizon agents working across sales, retention, lending and healthcare.
- Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Video API with native audio and draft rendering
The model makes 20-second HD clips from text, images or video, with Full HD upscaling, multilingual dialogue and synchronized sound.
- Pokee AI launches 28B agent model, claims 10 million tokens on one RTX 4090
Pokee has not released the model's weights, detailed test configurations or enough architecture information to independently assess its long-context and throughput claims.
- Lamb Labs unveils AI chip plan targeting 20,000 tokens a second
Lamb Labs says an 8B FPGA prototype runs below 10 watts, while its 63x efficiency claim lacks a reproducible benchmark.
- Warp's Agent CLI brings its coding agent to any terminal
Zach Lloyd is separating Warp's agent from Warp Terminal while keeping the session infrastructure that powers interactive and remote work.
- Microsoft spotlights Paige's year-old PRISM2 model trained on 2.3 million pathology slides
The model pairs digitized slides with clinical reports, but its benchmark results remain research evidence rather than clinical validation.
- Cursor open-sources MoK after a claimed 41% training throughput gain
The Apache-licensed kernel fuses MoE communication and computation for training models on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 racks.
- NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super weights for autonomous-driving developers
The 34-billion-parameter model pairs a 32B vision-language backbone with a diffusion action expert for robotaxis, trucks and delivery fleets.
- Genome Computer offers private AI chat for exploring personal genome data
David Ball's $15-a-month service sends models only question-relevant variants while storing the full genome separately.
- Cloudflare opens Wallet handle reservations for AI agent payments
Users can reserve identities now, while wallet payments, Virtual Wallets and funding tools have no established launch date.