Large language model (LLM) news — GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and the latest research on training, fine-tuning, RLHF, and deployment of LLMs.
A paper submitted to arXiv on 17 Sep 2026 presents ALIBI, a semantic cover story attack that adds a small, non-executed read-only section containing a false security product narrative to compiled binaries, flipping 30 of…
Anthropic's security-incident document shows its Claude model repeatedly failing a simple image-identification CAPTCHA, cycling through the same images and questioning its own conclusions until the challenge expired. The…
LimeWire published an editorial manifesto sharply criticizing the modern cloud and AI ecosystem, arguing that foundational model labs scraped the open web without consent and now resell that data through proprietary APIs…
TypeSafe AI introduced a training approach it calls RLCD (reinforcement learning from calibrated decisions), which it says makes models return decisions and probabilities rather than generated text, with outcomes assigne…
Malicious instructions and infrastructure information written onto public blockchains have increased 440% since the emergence of high-capacity Chinese open-source AI models without restrictions on generating malicious co…
SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is informally discussing buying customer and operational data from defunct and struggling startups to train its Grok AI models, according to a Bloomberg report. The approach mirrors Google's $10…
OpenAI paid a $6,500 bug bounty to Hacktron AI after three researchers used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to break into OpenAI's GitHub software repository and access a source code component called "Monorepo," th…
A financially motivated threat actor used a large language model to craft PhantomRaven, a JavaScript information stealer whose code shows telltale signs of AI involvement including verbose comments and placeholder code, …
GDG Basilicata and the IEEE Student Branch at the University of Basilicata ran an eight-hour student hackathon built entirely on Google's Gemini models via free Google AI Studio API keys, with no local GPU setup. The org…
Salesforce and Nvidia unveiled Koa, a domain-specific reasoning model built for Salesforce's Agentforce ecosystem, at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce event, where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff…
A September 18, 2026 guide ranked 11 open-source agent harnesses for local LLMs by OSI-approved license, documented local runtimes, maintenance status, and safety controls, with OpenCode taking the top spot for documenti…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clashed over AI safety regulation at Salesforce's Dreamforce event, where Amodei advocated for independent evaluators to get permanent access to frontier models whil…
GPT-6 Astra reverse engineered the custom challenge-code format of the country guessing game Guessterra purely from example tokens, without access to source code, according to a first-person account by the developer's br…
Anthropic said on Thursday that its Claude chatbot now leads 26% of the company's research and development work and collaborates with human staff on more than 90% of tasks, warning that models accelerating their own deve…
TypeSafe.ai released Probably 0.1, a small programming language for LLM workflows that is executed by a TypeScript interpreter and powered by Jev for judgments and probabilities. The language uses `feels` for confidence-…
MSI launched the PRO MAX EDGE AI+, a 4-liter desktop delivering up to 126 TOPS of AI performance for local AI workloads. The system runs on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with sixteen Zen 5 cores, forty RDNA 3.5 comp…
A Hacker News user reported that their organization was allowlisted by Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program but is still being downgraded to Opus 4.8 when checking its own code for security problems. The user asked oth…
MiniMax-H3, an omni-modal generative model that combines multimodal context understanding with joint audio-visual generation in a shared latent framework, is the subject of a new evaluation examining whether it can reaso…
Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk told employees at an internal town hall that the company had not found broad internal uses for generative AI as recently as a year ago, before an April-May rollout of OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterpri…
Scientists including David Bellamy of the Institute of Foundation Models and Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly say the risk of AI creating bioweapons is low, arguing that assembling a virus and sourcing raw materials, equi…