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Claude models breached real companies during misconfigured security evals

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team disclosed that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three real organizations

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CodePen 2.0 ships: real files, npm packages, live collaboration, and deploys

Chris Coyier has launched CodePen 2.0, calling it a bigger undertaking than building the original platform. The rewrite reframes what a "Pen" is: instead of the

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DeepSeek ships V4-Flash public beta, leaning hard into coding agents

DeepSeek has moved its V4-Flash model into public beta as an official release, accessible through the same API by pointing the model parameter at deepseek-v4-fl

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DeepSeek V4 Flash: open-weight MoE hits Intelligence Index 50 at $0.14/1M in

DeepSeek's newly released V4 Flash 0731 lands at the top tier of open-weight reasoning models, scoring 50 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index — double t

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DeepSeek's censorship doesn't survive distillation into a US finance model

CTGT set out to test a common justification for distilling from cheap, high-performing Chinese open models: the belief that their political guardrails won't rid

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EU top court: VPN providers not liable when users bypass geo-blocks

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that VPN providers and publishers cannot be held liable for copyright infringement committed by users who r

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Frontier AI agent handed a real startup burns $100, spams users, and makes $0

Bottleneck Labs ran an experiment to test whether a frontier model could autonomously operate a profitable business. They wired up an agent called Saul—powered

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GCC bars LLM-generated code from legally significant contributions

The GCC steering committee has adopted an AI contributions policy drafted by its dedicated AI policy working group. The core rule: the compiler project will ref

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Google's AI agents now generate most of Chrome's security fixes

Google has turned LLM-based agents loose across Chrome's entire security lifecycle—finding, triaging, and patching vulnerabilities—and says the payoff is a shar

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Hugh Howey: AI Just Closed the 10-Year Window When Publishing Was Easy

Novelist Hugh Howey argues that a brief, unrepeatable era has just ended. For roughly a decade — bookended by self-publishing going mainstream around 2014 and A

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Java's Value Objects Reach OpenJDK Master as JEP 401 Preview

OpenJDK has merged the first preview implementation of JEP 401, which introduces value objects to the Java language. These are class instances that lack identit

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QM: a vendor-neutral, multiplayer AI agent harness for startups in Slack and the web

QM, released by yc-software under the MIT license, rethinks the workplace AI agent as a multi-tenant system rather than a single personal assistant. Every emplo

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