AI safety
GPT-6 Astra Edited Qwen’s Weights Directly: Weight-Space Programming Explained
MIT researchers say OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra fixed a small Qwen model by editing 0.016% of its weights, lifting its math score from 7.9% to 48.1% with…
SemiAnalysis GDPx: The New AI Benchmark Where the Best Model Scores Just 12%
SemiAnalysis’s new GDPx benchmark puts AI agents through 206 real professional tasks. Claude Opus 5.5 tops it with just 12%. Here’s what it tests and why…
Claude Code Extension Backdoor: What Hit Up to 5,000 Cursor Users and How to Check Your Machine
A tampered Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s marketplace for about 11 hours and tried to plant an SSH backdoor for up to 5,000 users. Here’s…
Mistral Large 4 Is Now Open Weight: Europe’s 1-Trillion-Parameter ‘Le Chonk’ Explained
Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, its 1-trillion-parameter “Le Chonk” model. Here’s what it does, how it scores independently, and what it takes…
Gemini 4 Carbon Is Here: Google’s New #1 AI Model Goes to Cyber Defenders First
Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is its strongest model yet and tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Here’s what it does, where it trails rivals, and…
Anthropic Study: Experts Followed Claude’s Secret Coin-Flip Picks 86% of the Time
Anthropic gave Claude a secret coin-flip preference on analysis choices. 50 expert analysts followed it 86% of the time, and most never noticed. Here’s what the…
Google’s Genie 4 Is Here: DeepMind’s World Model Now Talks Back
Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 is a world model that generates explorable scenes in real time, now with native sound, speech and better physics. Here’s what’s new,…
Anthropic IPO: What Claude’s Maker Revealed in Its S-1 Filing
Anthropic made its IPO prospectus public on 26 October. Revenue hit $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, the net loss was $80.7 billion, and…
What Is Dessa? Jack Dorsey’s Block Built a Voice AI That Sounds Eerily Human
Block’s new Dessa voice model was trained only on human speech, runs on a MacBook Pro and sounds startlingly human. Here’s what it is, what Block…
What Is ARTEX? The AI Hacking Agent Behind the ConnectWise Breach
Microsoft says a China-state-aligned group used ARTEX, an open-source AI agent framework, to automate the ConnectWise Cloud Backup attack and try sign-ins at more than 2,250…
