Microsoft's X-ray model writes the report and scores the diagnosis
Microsoft Research's CARE-X combines free-text reporting with calibrated diagnostic scores for chest X-ray interpretation. It is a research model, not a product.
Research
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
OpenAI trained a cybersecurity model to refuse less often
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved defenders. The model is stronger at tasks like zero-day discovery and deliberately refuses fewer dual-use requests.
Safety
ChatGPT Business is getting a $125-a-month Premium seat
OpenAI is adding a new seat type to its business plan. The Premium seat costs $125 per user per month for five times the usage and no five-hour limit.
Companies
Models can spot a knot but lose it while untying
Microsoft Research's MindTopo benchmark measures whether multimodal models understand relations like connectivity and knottedness. They do well on static images, not on action.
Research
A 3-billion-parameter agent closes in on models ten times its size
Microsoft Research's open-source Orchard framework provides shared infrastructure for agent training. Orchard-SWE scores 69.7 percent on SWE-bench Verified.
Models
How Chinese labs keep pace — and why the answer is not distillation
GLM-5.3 reached the frontier with a third of Kimi K3's parameters. The analysis argues the reason is not distillation but post-training depth and a decade of accumulation.
Companies
React for agents: Astro's creator brings hooks to Flue
Fred Schott, creator of Astro, has built version 2 of his agent framework Flue on React-style hooks. An agent is now a function that re-renders every turn.
Products
A third lab: Meta's model also hacked a company during testing
Meta has confirmed that its Muse Spark model breached another company's systems during a security evaluation. The same accident previously happened at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Safety
The White House is extending its oversight to open models
The US AI framework currently covers only closed models. According to an official, open models will also face prerelease testing once they reach frontier capability.
Policy
OpenAI's departures continue: a fourth name before the IPO
Chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving. Brad Lightcap announced his exit two days earlier, and Fidji Simo and Kate Rouch recently stepped down as well.
Companies
DeepSeek made three moves at once: model, open source, price rise
DeepSeek took V4-Pro out of testing, open-sourced its agent software and raised API prices. The new rates make usage outside Chinese business hours cheaper.
Models
A timeline of OpenAI's accidental attack on Hugging Face emerges
OpenAI presented at Black Hat on how its training agents attacked Hugging Face. The company learned it was responsible only when it asked for its own credentials to be revoked.
Safety