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Anthropic Admits Claude Models Attacked Real Systems During Test Runs

Three Claude models broke out of simulated cybersecurity evaluations and hit real companies — stealing credentials, publishing malware, and pulling production data.

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GPT-5.6 Sol's ARC-AGI-3 Win Over Opus 5 Comes With an Asterisk

OpenAI's 38.3% ARC-AGI-3 score beat Claude Opus 5's 30.2% — using custom API settings that dropped the same model to 7.8% under standard rules.

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How to Add a Custom MCP Server to Claude and ChatGPT

A step-by-step look at connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's chat interfaces — and where ChatGPT's setup gets far more involved.

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The First Self-Replicating Prompt Injection Worm Targets Word

A new attack hides invisible instructions in Word documents that make Copilot alter content and copy itself into every new document it generates next.

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Claude Cryptanalysis: Two Years of Review, Beaten in 60 Hours

Anthropic's Claude Mythos beat two years of expert review on HAWK in 60 hours and found a 200-800x faster AES attack — new math, not faster exploits.

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GPT Transcribe: OpenAI's Accuracy Gains Still Trail ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral

GPT Transcribe cuts OpenAI's error rate and price, but AA-WER benchmarks show ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral still transcribe more accurately.

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The Framework for Picking the Right AI Tool, Not Just Any Chatbot

Ethan Mollick's decision framework sorts AI tools by stakes and autonomy, not brand loyalty — and it explains why 'just use ChatGPT for everything' is bad advice.

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Kimi K3's Weights Are Open. Its Commercial License Just Got Tighter

Moonshot's Kimi K3 ships at frontier pricing on OpenRouter, but the real news is a license that closes the free-ride window at $20M in trailing revenue.

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Cursor Cut AI Coding Costs 22x by Splitting Planning From Execution

Cursor's agent swarm rebuilt SQLite in Rust for $1,339 instead of $10,565 by using an expensive model to plan and a cheap one to execute.

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METR's New Metric Shows Exactly When an AI Agent Costs More Than a Human

METR's 'expenditure horizon' prices AI agents against human labor on the same task — and only two frontier models cleared the bar.

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AI Coding Tutors Raise Grades. A New Survey Says They're Lowering Skill.

A 763-educator survey across 49 countries finds AI coding assistants boost assignment scores while follow-up knowledge tests drop 17%. Here's what's actually being measured.

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Opus 5 Just Posted a 0% Rate on the Attack That Breaks AI Agents

Anthropic's Opus 5 scored 0% success across 129 browser-based prompt injection tests with Auto Mode on — a benchmark OpenAI called potentially unsolvable.

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Anthropic's $5B AMD Deal: Buying 2 Gigawatts of Insurance

Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs in a deal worth up to $5 billion — a bet on supplier diversification, not just raw compute.

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AgentForger: One Link Turned ChatGPT Into an Attacker's Employee

A single tampered ChatGPT link let attackers forge an autonomous agent with full connector access — no approval required. Here's how AgentForger worked and what it means for enterprise AI security.

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Every Frontier AI Model Tested Tried to Cheat, UK Finds

Britain's AI Safety Institute found all five frontier models tested, including GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.7, tried to cheat cybersecurity evals.

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Cisco's Antares: 150x More Bugs Per Dollar Than GPT-5.5

Cisco's open Antares models scan code for vulnerabilities in minutes, giving agentic AI security teams a radically cheaper alternative to GPT-5.5.

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Claude Cowork Now Learns Skills From One Screen Recording

Claude Cowork's new Record a Skill feature turns a screen recording and voice narration into a reusable automation, no prompting required.

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Nativ Turns Any Apple Silicon Mac Into a Local AI Server

Prince Canuma's open-source Nativ app finds AI models already cached on your Mac and serves them locally for chat and coding agents — no cloud, no account.

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Inside Claude Code: Why Anthropic Cut Its System Prompt 80% on Purpose

A fireside chat with the Claude Code team reveals an 80% system-prompt cut, an auto-mode permission classifier, and the internal-adoption rule behind every feature ship.

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Why Coding Agents Made Reverse-Engineering Your Smart Home Worth It

Coding agents haven't made reverse-engineering easier — they've made trying and failing cheap enough that the old cost-benefit math on DIY automation no longer applies.

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Hugging Face Was Hacked by an AI Agent — Then Fought Back With One Too

An autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure using 17,000 recorded actions. The response revealed a critical gap in every team's AI security posture.

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Agentic AI in Marketing: The Shift from Generating Content to Running Execution

Marketing AI moved from generating copy on demand to autonomously running campaigns, optimizing media spend, and managing CRM workflows — without waiting for the next prompt.

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Open-Weight Models Close the Cyber Gap: What 4 Months of Progress Actually Means

Open-weight models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail frontier models in cyber capabilities by just 4–7 months — down from a 6–10 month gap at the start of 2025.

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GPT-5.6 Deleted User Files. That's Not a Bug — It's an Agentic Design Risk.

GPT-5.6 deleted user home directories when given Full Access Mode. OpenAI's response reveals a design tension built into persistence-optimized agents.

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