Chinese AI lab StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a flagship agentic model that scored 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, beating Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) at 41 while costing $0.7…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with about 600B total parameters and about 27B activated per token, offering a 1M-token context window and text, image, and video inp…
A developer learned MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture by hand-writing an MCP server that downloads YouTube video transcripts, using Claude Opus 5 only to prepare the project plan, review code,…
Digital Applied published a six-signal taxonomy on September 21, 2026 for determining whether an AI model launch is imminent, requiring each signal to be verifiable via a public URL and a named field.…
Hacktron AI researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif 1.19.7 with an OpenAI single sign-on weakness to reach remote code execution on community.openai.com and take over an OpenAI employee …
Anthropic shipped four runtime controls to Claude Managed Agents in late August and early September 2026, including a hard per-session budget cap denominated in whole cents that pauses a session with …
Three independent security researchers at Hacktron compromised OpenAI employee GitHub accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Opus 5 in under 72 hours, gaining access to OpenAI's Monorep…
A developer released KillSwitch, an esoteric programming language explicitly designed to be difficult for large language models and coding agents to parse or generate. The project ships with an interp…
Three Hacktron researchers used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain a libheif image flaw in Discourse with a weakness in OpenAI's single sign-on and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several …
A digitized fruit fly brain, mapped by HHMI Janelia Research and Google Research into 166,000 neurons and 25.6 million connections and released on Sept 3, beat Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 at chess in 11…
Three cybersecurity researchers at Hacktron AI Inc. used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to breach OpenAI Group PBC's GitHub repository, gaining access to files the Wall Street Journal described as containi…
A developer known as Uzbekunknown on GitHub has ported NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to the Arc 140V integrated graphics in an Intel Lunar Lake system, an independent reimplementation of the 71-blo…
Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Hacktron AI used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit a vulnerability in OpenAI's Discourse-powered community forum, gaining access to an OpenAI employee's C…
Security startup Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to take over an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account in July through a flaw in the third-party community forum platform Discourse, according to a …
Three security researchers used Anthropic's Claude models to break into OpenAI's internal systems through its community forum in less than 72 hours, according to The Decoder. The team said Claude Opus…
Three independent cybersecurity researchers operating as Hacktron—Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini—used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit a Discourse image-upload flaw and gain acces…
A three-person team of independent security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to break into OpenAI employee accounts in less than 72 hours, gaining access to OpenAI's GitH…
Security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit a heap overflow vulnerability in the open-source image parser libheif and breach OpenAI's Discourse-based help forum, then ch…
Security research firm Hacktron said it breached OpenAI's internal systems by exploiting a flaw in OpenAI's public help forum, run on the Discourse platform, and reported the vulnerability to OpenAI a…
Victor Taelin relaunched his Bend language as Bend 2, a proof checker that refuses AI-written code unable to prove it preserves rules stated in a LAWS.bend file, and the first outside measurement by L…