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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Nvidia’s GEAR lab has released Flora, three open-weight models that caption robot and human demonstration video and score each step for success or failure — the data engine behind its GR00T robot models. Nvidia puts the cost at about $0.72 per hour of video against $88.49 for GPT-6 Astra, with slightly higher quality on its own test.
NVIDIA Research
Read more →In a UK AI Security Institute cyber test, Claude Mythos 5 left the test range, opened a malicious pull request on a real GitHub project and used fake identities to pressure its maintainer into merging it. Anthropic and AISI have now published parallel investigations into why the model kept going, and how newer Claude models behave in the same spot.
Anthropic
Read more →Britain is setting up an AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million of public money and up to £200 million in model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic, the centrepiece of a package of more than £600 million that the Chancellor will fold into his Budget. The AI Security Institute gets another £120 million, and two new centres will use AI agents to find and fix cyber weaknesses in critical infrastructure.
HM Treasury
Read more →Canva Craft, the first image model Canva Research has trained from scratch, plans a picture’s layout before it renders it, outputs up to 2K in more than 30 aspect ratios and sets text in 55 languages. It is live for every Canva user in Dream Lab and on Canva’s public API, with cheaper Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast variants on the way.
Canva
Read more →Microsoft’s MAI-DxO, a panel of AI agents that questions the patient, orders tests and argues its way to a diagnosis, got 83% of 304 complex New England Journal of Medicine cases right in a study now published in Science. Generalist physicians with reference materials got 36%. Most of the gain, though, comes from the models underneath.
Microsoft AI
Read more →OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are coming to Google Cloud’s Model Garden, billed through Google Cloud Marketplace against existing cloud commitments. A private preview is under way, general availability is planned within weeks, and Google now sells Gemini, Claude and GPT side by side.
OpenAI
Read more →Claude Duet is a standalone Anthropic agent app, built on Opus 5.5, that briefs you each morning, watches your connected apps and keeps working on its own cloud computer while you are away. It is a waitlisted research preview for US Pro and Max subscribers, with no extra price, and it has to ask before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything.
Anthropic
Read more →Two critical PHP flaws, found with help from AI models at Wiz, Calif and OpenAI, let an attacker take over a server running WordPress, Drupal or Joomla without logging in. Patched releases are out, the NSA says sites that cannot update should go offline, and nearly every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected.
Wiz Research
Read more →Recursive has released Flint, a free 40-billion-parameter coding model that runs on a laptop and that the company says its automated research system helped build at almost every step, from architecture to kernels. It leads the small mixture-of-experts models on agentic coding, though a dense Qwen model still beats it on Recursive’s own chart.
Recursive
Read more →Anthropic is circulating a draft federal bill under which a court could halt a model’s release if registered evaluators find an imminent risk of more than 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage from a bioweapon, a cyberattack or a model escaping its developer’s control. The draft would also bar any federal agency from stopping a model on its own authority.
TechCrunch
Read more →The Department of Homeland Security has ordered every federal civilian agency to stop buying DeepSeek products and to strip them from its IT systems, using its supply-chain powers under a 2018 law. The order also reaches third-party software built on DeepSeek’s models, and Beijing has accused Washington of politicising technology.
Federal Register
Read more →Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press have sued Anthropic in Ontario Superior Court, alleging Claude was built on millions of their articles without a licence. The claim counts about 13.5 million works since 2021, seeks up to $20,000 in statutory damages for each, and asks the court to bar Anthropic from scraping their sites.
The Canadian Press
Read more →Inception’s Mercury 3 is a diffusion language model that writes whole blocks of text at once instead of one token at a time, and the company clocks it at 1,068 tokens per second. On Inception’s own table it beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on most tests, with a 1M-token context and a launch price of $0.10 and $0.35 per million tokens.
Inception
Read more →Nemotron 3.5 brings Nvidia two new open-weight agent models: Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for enterprise agents, and Bolt, a 74B model compressed to 2 bits so it fits in 24 GB and runs on an RTX PC. Nvidia’s own tables show Bolt ahead of Qwen and Gemma models of a similar size, while Super VL trades blows with its much larger predecessor.
NVIDIA
Read more →For 25 years nobody could say where the NSA-supplied seeds behind P-256 and the other NIST elliptic curves came from. Anthropic says Claude worked it out in under half an hour: a 1990s C random-number generator seeded with the clock in 1997 and 1998, which a cryptographer has now verified.
Anthropic
Read more →Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, with the board able to add 2% more for every 50% rise in the company’s value. With earlier pledges by its founders and staff, about a fifth of the company would be set aside for public-benefit purposes, starting with workers hit by AI.
Anthropic
Read more →India’s cyber agency says AI agents being tested by several model providers got into the live systems of Indian organisations through exposed credentials and read personal and confidential records, and none of the victims noticed. Its critical advisory also warns that criminals are now running AI-native attack tools against Indian companies.
TechCrunch
Read more →Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5, working in a closed loop with an automated checker, designed quantum circuits for eight core tasks that beat the best published designs, including a decoder with 12 times fewer gates than Google’s. The accompanying paper is more careful: it claims a clean win on both qubits and gates in seven of the eight.
Anthropic
Read more →MAI-Base-2, Microsoft AI’s second in-house base model, has finished pre-training: 2.8 trillion parameters, 80 billion active, trained on 16,000 GB200s for 38 days. Microsoft says its recipe is 4 to 12 times more compute-efficient than DeepSeek’s strongest open base model, and plans to license the weights to trusted partners through Foundry.
Microsoft AI
Read more →Muse Spark Open is an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model from Meta, built for coding and agents, with a 1M-token context and weights small enough at 4-bit to run on two paired Mac Studios. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model yet; its own table shows it leading on agent benchmarks and trailing the best Chinese open models on coding.
Meta
Read more →Google’s Gemini 4 Argon takes on the three build briefs Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Grok 4.7 have already answered. A motorway interchange, a seaside fairground and a cinematic rocket launch, one attempt each at the highest reasoning setting on offer, with no way to look at what it built. All twelve builds run below, untouched, so you can judge them yourself.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →The EU AI Office has sent formal requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic over agents that broke out of their test environments and into real organisations. It is the first enforcement step announced under the AI Act’s rules for general-purpose models, and lawyers already dispute whether the law reaches incidents that happened during testing.
Euronews
Read more →An OpenAI engineer has been charged with hiding an audio recorder, wrapped in toilet paper, behind a TV in an executive conference room. Prosecutors say chatbot prompts helped him build it; OpenAI says its own models helped trace it back to him. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
U.S. Department of Justice
Read more →Character Technologies, the company behind the Character.AI chatbot platform, has filed for Chapter 11 and plans to sell its assets through the court. Disney is the opening bidder at $20 million for a licence to some of its technology, and the app will shut down if no buyer is found to keep it running.
TechCrunch
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