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Over 150,000 people applied to Joi AI's paid study testing AI-guided masturbation, forcing the company to create a public selection process. The AI companion platform aims to explore the relationship between AI, emotiona…
OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, but since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the lead has changed hands 17 times with a median stay of just seven weeks, indicating fiercer…
Security researchers at Aikido discovered that Rocket.Chat's use of MongoDB's ObjectId() for file IDs allows unauthenticated attackers to predict and access any uploaded file. The vulnerability, reported via HackerOne an…
A 2026 study from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and UIUC found that context pruning—masking stale observations from an AI agent's history—improves accuracy by up to 11.7 points in some setups but reduces it by up…
Alibaba researchers unveiled SkillWeaver, a framework that uses an iterative feedback loop and execution graphs to intelligently route AI tools for complex multi-step tasks, achieving a 99.9% reduction in token consumpti…
Anthropic secretly added a tracker to Claude Code that monitored users in China, using prompt steganography to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The company removed the…
Researchers at the University of Benghazi are conducting a systematic review comparing interpretable statistical models with explainable AI approaches for predicting breast cancer recurrence. The review, registered in PR…
Researchers at ICML 2025 proved that AI models trained with DPO or RLHF inevitably learn spurious correlations, causing them to rely on non-causal features like verbosity or sycophancy instead of true helpfulness, harmle…
ChatGPT commands 92.4% of AI referral traffic, according to a new study analyzing 6.77 million LLM-driven sessions. Monthly AI sessions grew 9.9x to 644,478 by May 2026, but volatility remains high due to model changes. …
OpenSSH 10.4 has been released, adding experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme combining ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519. The release also enforces sandbox support on Linux, requiring SECCOMP or NO_NEW_P…
The Emergence Prompt Engineering (EPE) initiative launches an open research program to systematically evaluate structured prompting in large language models, proposing a reproducible scientific workflow that separates be…
Google DeepMind announced on July 6 that real-world data from Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robots will train its Gemini Robotics AI models. Apptronik's new 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin collects data from logi…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model, under the Apache 2.0 license on July 6th, offering two weeks of free API access via OpenRouter. The model, already integrated into Tencent produc…
A new field guide maps agent harnesses—the software loops that let AI models edit files, run tests, and iterate autonomously—on capability and freedom. The analysis shows that as models become commoditized, the harness d…
Claire tested Anthropic's Sonnet 5 against Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3 Pro using a custom benchmark, finding Sonnet 5 priced competitively but ranking near the bottom in her preference. She advocates for …
Nations are investing in AI capabilities to design, train, and deploy models using domestic infrastructure and local datasets, ensuring solutions are tailored to local needs. The rise of generative and agentic AI has acc…
AI agents, described as 'really smart kindergartners' by HashiCorp CTO Stephen Wilson, are creating blind spots in zero trust security programs by moving too fast for traditional authentication and access controls, leadi…
Dartmouth hosted the first international academic conference on artificial intelligence in glaciology, bringing together over 60 scientists to discuss how AI can accelerate analysis of vast datasets from satellite imager…
Grok-4.3 defeated Phi-4 37.0 to 26.0 in a head-to-head comparison of text generation models, winning on correctness, instruction-following, and precision across four tasks including code generation, email drafting, incid…
Ireland has Europe's largest gender gap in advanced digital skills, with only 18% of women using such skills at work compared to 44% of men, and women hold just 5% of top executive tech roles, according to Technology Ire…