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Anthropic claims popular Chinese AI model has Mythos-class hacking abilities
Anthropic has released a frontier red teaming report, claiming that Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 has weak safeguarding, and can easily be used to generate harmful content.
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Meta's Muse AI agent accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data
Meta's Muse AI agent has been accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data on an iPhone and Mac, including iMessages.
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Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval
Florida asked a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval and to keep minors off ChatGPT.
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Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence
President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to stop using the term 'artificial intelligence' and instead call it 'Super Intelligence.' The president said that the new term will solve AI's branding issue and that it 'more appropriately captures the promise,…
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The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore's Law, report suggests
The price of AI "intelligence," has fallen dramatically in recent years, faster than any other transformational technology in history according to some estimates. This raises serious questions about the need to retain access to frontier capabilities, when they show up elsewhere so swiftly.
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The state of agentic AI in chip design tools in 2026
Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens all offer agentic AI for chip design, largely built on Nvidia's stack, with varying claims of autonomy.
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Developer trains a small AI on a single RTX 3080 Ti gaming GPU to 'play' Pokémon Red
A developer trained a JEPA world model, based on LeWorldModel research co-authored by Yann LeCun, on an RTX 3080 Ti to play Pokémon Red.
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‘This is how AI should be used’ — OpenAI head of hardware breaks down the AI-assisted design of its Jalapeño ASIC
OpenAI says AI-assisted Jalapeño chip design "established a new baseline" for the industry, and there is already a lot of interest from others to learn how the company pulled it off.
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Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel
Hackers have breached the U.S. Department of Defense's information systems. The Pentagon says that it has already secured the source of the leak, but the records of millions of DoD personnel are now in the wild.
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AMD acquires AI legend Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD has agreed agreed to buy generative AI world model developer World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock. Legendary CEO and co-founder Fei-Fei Li will join the company as an executive vice president and chief scientist.
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Blockchain-assisted cyberattacks surge fivefold, driven by Iranian and North Korean state actors, Russia-linked groups
A new report says blockchain dead-drop attacks have risen 440%, with state-linked and criminal groups using transactions, smart contracts, and even phantom wallets to hide malware payloads and C2 infrastructure on public blockchains.
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Anthropic lists ‘existential risks to humanity’ as one of its risk factors in IPO prospectus
Anthropic serves a dire warning in its IPO prospectus, saying how a rogue model could lead to the end of humanity and, consequentially, its business. Nevertheless, investors are still hoping for a $2-trillion valuation once the company goes public.
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Silicon is starting to design silicon — how AI is being used in chipmaking, from EDA tools to OpenAI's Jalapeño and beyond
How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.
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Intel patent embeds MicroLEDs in chip packaging — technology may enable embedded optical interconnects through TGVs
Intel has showcased a patent it filed in 2022 to embed MicroLEDs inside chip packaging. The company suggests this could be used for diagnostic testing, customized lighting on chip surfaces, but perhaps more importantly, an alternative integration for co-packaged optics
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Early Nvidia advisor says he's owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlement
Former Nvidia advisor Eric Gullichsen says a 1993 stock option grant leaves him owed about $1 billion in stock.
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Anthropic CEO described Jensen Huang as 'kind of Trump-like' during 2022 meeting
Author Kevin Roose reports that Nvidia and Anthropic's CEOs didn't like each other much during their first meeting in his new book, The AGI Chronicles.
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Synopsys debuts Autopilot platform for developing chips autonomously using AI
Synopsys unveiled seven AgentEngineer agents on its new Autopilot platform, with general availability planned for the end of 2026.
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