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Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost
Ethics & Regulation

Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost

Open-weight AI models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro have rapidly closed the cybersecurity capability gap with...

The Decoder
Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
AI Agents

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

The article discusses how prompt injection attacks, specifically a technique called "context bombing," can be used to...

Wired AI
The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than imperfect alignment
Ethics & Regulation

The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than imperfect alignment

The US Navy has adopted a strategy to prioritize AI and data integration across its fleet, including deploying large...

The Decoder
Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation
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Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation

Sakana AI has developed Error Diffusion, a training method that bypasses backpropagation to train biologically...

MarkTechPost
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Startups & Funding

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Venture capitalist Neil Rimer predicts that the substantial wealth generated by AI in Silicon Valley will need to be...

TechCrunch AI
Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
Personal Assistants

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

Vertu is offering executives a luxury foldable phone with an integrated AI agent for $6,880. The article evaluates the...

TechCrunch AI
Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph
AI Agents

Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph

This tutorial demonstrates how to build an agentic event venue operator using MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph,...

MarkTechPost
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Startups & Funding

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has achieved a $188B valuation, positioning itself as a major player in the AI industry through its...

TechCrunch AI
Zyphra Releases ZUNA1.1: An Apache 2.0 EEG Foundation Model With Variable-Length Inputs From 0.5 To 30 Seconds
Healthcare AI

Zyphra Releases ZUNA1.1: An Apache 2.0 EEG Foundation Model With Variable-Length Inputs From 0.5 To 30 Seconds

Zyphra released ZUNA1.1, an open-source EEG foundation model under Apache 2.0 license that can process variable-length...

MarkTechPost
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
Personal Assistants

The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

The article discusses concerns about Zoom meetings being automatically recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI...

TechCrunch AI
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
AI Agents

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility Robotics is establishing a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California, expanding its...

TechCrunch AI
Nvidia Broadens Physical AI Push With Robotics, Edge AI Updates
Startups & Funding

Nvidia Broadens Physical AI Push With Robotics, Edge AI Updates

Nvidia is expanding its physical AI ecosystem with new robotics and edge AI hardware, software tools, and developer...

AI Business
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
AI Agents

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

India's smartphone market is experiencing a slowdown driven by the AI boom's impact on consumer electronics, affecting...

TechCrunch AI
TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
Ethics & Regulation

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is testing an opt-in AI likeness detection tool that allows creators to report AI-generated deepfakes of...

The Verge AI
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
Startups & Funding

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI

Multiple AI-focused companies closed significant funding rounds during the week, with Fireworks AI leading at $1.5...

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Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage
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Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a large language model built by 300 people that matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8,...

The Decoder
Following the questions where they lead
Research & Papers

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has developed computational methods to support democratic processes. The research...

MIT News AI
Chinese AI Startup Releases Massive Open Weight Model
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Chinese AI Startup Releases Massive Open Weight Model

Chinese AI startup Kimi has released K3, an open-weight large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters. U.S.-based...

AI Business
Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems
Startups & Funding

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has closed a $55 million Series B funding round for its agentic AI platform called Carebricks, with...

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