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AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast

Security research lab Palisade Research demonstrates that AI agents can break into remote computers and replicate themselves. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. A public ...
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Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search

Google has introduced a "Preferred Sources" feature that lets users manually mark journalistic outlets they want to see more often in search results. But the company has spent decades algorithmically ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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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 lab, "Core Automation," with the goal of building "the most automated AI lab in the world," starting by automating its own research.
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The myth of Claude Mythos crumbles as small open models hunt the same cybersecurity bugs Anthropic showcased

Anthropic has kept its Claude Mythos cybersecurity model on a short leash, pointing to capabilities it says no rival can match. But two new studies suggest that even small, openly available models can ...
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Self-improving AI startup Recursive Superintelligence pulls in $500 million just four months after founding

Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old AI startup, has raised at least $500 million at a $4 billion pre-money valuation. GV (formerly Google Ventures) led the round, with Nvidia joining in, ...
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Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a new open AI model. The mixture-of-experts model activates just three of its 35 billion parameters at a time, cutting compute costs without meaningfully hurting ...
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Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 gives robots a sharper brain for planning and perception

Google Deepmind has released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an upgraded model for embodied reasoning in robots. It acts as a high-level thinking layer that helps robots understand their surroundings and plan ...
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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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Claude Cowork expands to all paid plans on macOS and Windows with new org controls

Claude Cowork is now available on all paid plans for macOS and Windows. Anthropic is also rolling out organizational controls: role-based access, per-team budget limits, usage analytics, and ...
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OpenAI launches a Codex plugin that runs inside Anthropic's Claude Code

OpenAI released a plugin that embeds its AI coding assistant Codex directly into Anthropic's Claude Code. The plugin offers three core features: a standard code review, a more aggressive "adversarial ...
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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...