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Launches, funding, releases OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models. MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days. Stolen Claude session cookies can reach corporate Gmail through grants no IT admin can revoke Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards. The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console ca… US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material "The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Show HN: ZSvirt – A lightweight, scalable open source virtualization platform Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023 WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero Check if a file was made with Claude OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model Doop Design with AI agents - live on the same canvas Discussion | Link Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican The efficient frontier of LLM inference AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April. OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM. Claude Fable 5.1 Claude’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work Discussion | Link Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements. Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.
Rules of the game
Platforms, policy, pricing Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per… Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says. Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI secu… The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "b… Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video… “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts. ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union. Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Voices
Maker & researcher commentary llm-gemini 0.34 Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan . #137 Here are the pelicans for high, medium, and low. This is high: For comparis… Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as well. They used to ke… Codex bundles LibreOffice I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installat… Agency and Agents From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories Understanding ChatGPT Work OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one th… Introducing Hy4 Preview Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face . This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B, 21B active, 256,000 con… Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann Rehberger is one of th… llm-anthropic 0.27 Release: llm-anthropic 0.27 This release of the Anthropic plugin for LLM mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2 . OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two weeks ago. Anthropic provide this migratio… Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive A few interesting numbers in this FT story gathered from "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's "annualized revenue" for July is up to $65bn - it was $47bn in May, and I collected more historic numbers here . A… llm 0.33 Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday, but this is the more comprehensive fix. llm embed and llm embed-multi now accept… llm 0.32.1 Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx , and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed it via a transitive openai dependency. This dot-release fixes that for the moment by pinning to op… llm-openrouter 0.7 Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it can display the reasoning traces for LLMs available through OpenRouter. Updated for compatibility with LLM 0.32 . Models now use OpenRouter's implementation of the Responses API . Three new server-side tools: Shell , We… Quoting Matt Webb After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mathematician friends… ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT. Th… What it feels like to work with Mythos Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough Claude Code and What Comes Next With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 From chatbots to agents Real AI Agents and Real Work The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints
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