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Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement learning fine-tune of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash, released on Hugging Face under the MIT license. Is it deployable? Yes, the MIT weights serve on vLLM, SGLang or Transformers, but BF16 needs roughly 640 GB of GPU memory. […] The post Can an Open Model…
Oct 5, 2026
GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job
Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents. The post GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Oct 4, 2026
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Oct 4, 2026
Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Oct 4, 2026
Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence
Donald Trump has established a "Super Intelligence Force." "Superintelligence" is his term for artificial intelligence. The unit is led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and other government officials, coordinates with AI companies, critical infrastructure operators, and interest groups. The group reports directly to the president. The article Trump launches "Super Intelligence…
Oct 4, 2026
NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
Well, if AI said it, it must be true. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic during an interview…
Oct 4, 2026
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, it couldn't quite get an…
Oct 4, 2026
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
Oct 4, 2026
Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than an unregularized version. The article Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing…
Oct 4, 2026
NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts the error in predicting polar ice deposits. The article NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science appeared first…
Oct 4, 2026
Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its models from Chinese competitors. The article Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive…
Oct 4, 2026
Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy
Google Research has unveiled a federated learning system that moves gradient computation from phones into attested server-side TEEs. Access policies are published to Sigstore's Rekor log and the binaries are reproducibly buildable, so central differential privacy can be checked externally. Gboard already uses it for English and Japanese next-word prediction. The post Google Research Moves…
Oct 4, 2026
Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro will be reserved for paying customers. The move could also set the stage for the more resource-hungry Gemini 4 Argon. The article Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of…
Oct 4, 2026
Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort, and its Apache 2.0 FP8 weights run on a single B200 or H200. The post Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters appeared first on…
Oct 4, 2026
DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness
DeepSeek has released official macOS and Windows desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness v0.2, its MIT-licensed agent harness. The preview adds a plugin manager, file and code-change review, and scheduled Automation Tasks. It also supports non-DeepSeek models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The post DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness appeared first…
Oct 4, 2026
Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Actions with the Graph-Based Retargeting Engine
Learn how NVIDIA IsaacTeleop turns XR hand tracking and motion controller input into robot commands using a pure Python retargeting engine and NumPy. The post Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Actions with the Graph-Based Retargeting Engine appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Oct 4, 2026
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Oct 3, 2026
Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV on AI. As recently as 2024, Altman himself spoke of building "magic intelligence in the sky" and feeling "on the side of the angels" working on AI. The article Apparently, OpenAI…
Oct 3, 2026
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
Oct 3, 2026
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for the Next Generation." During the talk he laid out the challenges facing studios…
Oct 3, 2026