White Circle, the Paris-based AI safety startup led by Denis Shilov, released Halo, an open distributed training framework it says delivers between 2.3x and 2.8x the throughput of stock Hugging Face T…
White Circle launched Halo, a post-training framework for open-source models that delivers up to 2.8x the throughput of stock TRL with lower peak memory while keeping models in native HuggingFace form…
A paper posted to arXiv (2609.10589v1) introduces Halo, a modification that reuses an existing deep forecaster's architecture to add a second output estimating the scale of its implied distribution an…
AI and autonomous agents could democratize technology and undercut corporate power scaling, according to an analysis in a tech blog. The article argues that open-source AI, potentially running locally…
ButterClaw Tech released ButterClaw, a self-hosted AI agent runtime security layer that enforces kinetic responses including SIGKILL on rogue processes, with no cloud dependency or telemetry. The tool…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has built ELSA, a generative AI platform available to all 16,000 staff, and Halo, a governed data foundation on Databricks, achieving 85% daily staff adopti…
Flex raised $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing its total equity to $180 million, to expand its AI-native private bank for high-net-worth business owners globally.…
A developer wired real agents into Halo, a multi-agent pentest pipeline, replacing stub agents with specialists for WAF fingerprinting, vulnerability classification, and validation. During a live run …
Brian, a former Vanta employee, launched Halo, an open-source tool that records AI agent actions in a tamper-evident, hash-chained log to enable runtime auditing. The tool addresses the challenge of v…
A developer building Halo, an autonomous pentesting agent powered by a local LLM, discovered a critical bug in its failure cache that caused the agent to permanently blacklist tools across unrelated e…