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Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list

Bytedance's cloud division, Byteplus, has made its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0, available to business customers in more than 100 countries, but the US is not among them. The model first ...
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Apple sends Siri developers to AI coding bootcamp

Apple is sending some of its Siri developers back to school. Fewer than 200 engineers will go through a multi-week bootcamp to learn how to use AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's ...
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Claude Mythos can autonomously compromise weakly defended enterprise networks end-to-end

The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has evaluated Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview for its cyber-attack capabilities, finding that the model achieved a 73 percent success rate in expert-level ...
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Claude Code routines let AI fix bugs and review code on autopilot

Anthropic has introduced "routines" for Claude Code - automated processes that can independently fix bugs, review pull requests, or respond to events without needing a user's local machine. Routines ...
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Claude Mythos is a wake-up call for Europe's AI safety apparatus

Anthropic is restricting access to Claude Mythos, an AI model it says can find security vulnerabilities better than most humans. European authorities have almost no visibility into the system, while ...
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OpenAI's leaked memo says new "Spud" model will make all its products "significantly better"

An internal memo from OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser outlines the company's Q2 strategic direction. The document covers five core priorities for the enterprise business and takes ...
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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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Google Deepmind study exposes six "traps" that can easily hijack autonomous AI agents in the wild

AI agents inherit the vulnerabilities of large language models, but their autonomy and access to external tools open up an entirely new attack surface. A Google Deepmind paper maps out exactly where ...
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Perplexity AI sued over alleged data sharing with Meta and Google

Perplexity AI is facing a class-action lawsuit. The company is accused of sharing personal user data from chats with Meta and Google, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...