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Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters

11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (594+ words) Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release the weights next week. Alibaba's Qwen team has…...

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Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart

12+ hour, 46+ min ago   (203+ words) the-decoder.com Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart AI is changing how science gets done. Two researchers independently solved the same open quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, submitting their…...

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Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (193+ words) the-decoder.com Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids Google Deepmind has introduced Gemini Robotics 2, which it calls its most advanced vision-language-action (VLA) model yet. VLA models combine image recognition, language…...

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Aschenbrenner's AI thesis could be correct, his timing and leverage were not

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (428+ words) Maximilian Schreiner is Managing Editor at THE DECODER and has covered artificial intelligence for close to a decade, from new models and tools to their impact on businesses, media, and society. He brings that expertise to heise KI PRO, where…...

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Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (672+ words) Three different Claude models found their way onto the open internet during cybersecurity evaluations and attacked real-world systems. One even published malware on a public platform. Anthropic blames a misconfiguration. While reviewing its own cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic found three incidents…...

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Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billion will flow into training data because scaling alone won't cut it

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (171+ words) Andrew Ho is leaving OpenAI after just eight months, convinced that large language models generalize poorly. Even in well-funded areas like programming, he says, their performance is inconsistent. The root cause, according to Ho, is a lack of training data....

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Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (429+ words) Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't. They're missing the cognitive mechanism needed to create something truly new. Zahavy builds his case on a framework…...

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Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the frontier

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (290+ words) Microsoft AI is betting on small specialist models instead of expensive general-purpose ones, according to AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in an orchestrator and reportedly costs half as much as Anthropic's Mythos, but…...

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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (223+ words) the-decoder.com GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. GPT Transcribe handles pre-recorded…...

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Anthropic says its Mythos model found vulnerabilities in cryptographic algorithms that secure the internet

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (532+ words) According to Anthropic, the model developed an improved attack on the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK and a new attack on a reduced version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Encryption protects nearly everything people do online, and AES is the…...