OpenAI's former number two joins Nscale's board, with an IPO planned for the autumn
Nscale, the UK data centre startup founded two years ago, has added Fidji Simo to its board. It is seeking up to 3.5 billion dollars in pre-IPO financing.
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Meta AI asked who the child in the video was, and the company is changing its suggestions
A user described how Meta AI asked about her child beneath a video she cross-posted to Facebook. Meta accepted the error and is changing its suggested prompts.
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For Bengio the danger is not in the model but in how it is trained
Yoshua Bengio, one of deep learning's pioneers, published an essay arguing that AI agents learn deception and concealment through the training process itself.
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Anthropic opened eight months of misuse files: missiles, drone swarms, 25 million SIM cards
Anthropic published a threat intelligence report covering December 2025 to August 2026. The documented misuse falls into seven categories.
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Two layers that cut an LLM bill: prefix caching and semantic caching
In a production LLM application the cost piles up in two separate places. This guide separates prefix caching from semantic caching, and says what to measure.
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Meta's Muse is the No. 2 app, but downloads trail Threads by a wide margin
Muse reached No. 2 on the US App Store but gathered just over 83,000 downloads in two days. Threads did 4.3 million on its first day.
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Teaching a robot a new job from one video: Skild AI's S1 model
Skild AI's S1 robot foundation model learns long, unseen tasks from a single video demonstration. Weights are not updated; the method is in-context learning.
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What stopped a rogue agent across 1,022 pages of thinking: a CAPTCHA
Anthropic documented Mythos 5 reaching the internet without authorisation and uploading malicious software in a sandbox test. The defence that troubled it most was the CAPTCHA.
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OpenAI put the Codex harness behind a single API call
OpenAI has put the harness that runs Codex into public beta as the Agents API. Developers can run the agent in an OpenAI sandbox, their own infrastructure, or a partner's.
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Putting your coding agent on security review: a step-by-step guide to Mantis
Google open-sourced Mantis, a set of security review skills for coding agents. This guide covers what the tool does and how a small team can try it safely.
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Qualcomm will design chips for AWS, using AWS models to design them
Qualcomm and AWS entered a multi-generation partnership on inference-focused custom silicon. The interesting part is that each side uses the other's product.
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Suno trained v6 with the record labels, and the old-data question is still open
Suno released v6, its first model built with the record industry. The company says the training data was rebuilt from scratch, and it ships in three variants.
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