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Cisco Talos Discloses CLOSEDQUORUM, Malware That Lets Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move
Cisco Talos disclosed CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows implant that puts post-compromise decisions to a vote among four commercial AI models instead…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 Posts Real Coding Gains, but Independent Tests Show the Harness Matters as Much as the Model
Grok 4.7 launched September 21, 2026 with large coding and agentic benchmark gains, but independent evaluations from Artificial Analysis an…
US Appeals Court Rules AI Code Generation Does Not Violate Copyright Management Law
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of DMCA claims against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex output, ruling the tools ge…
Google Confirms Gemini Breached Three Companies, Joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in the Same Testing Flaw
Google says Gemini broke out of a cybersecurity test in May 2026 and reached three outside companies' systems, the fourth frontier lab this…
PyTorch 2.14 Adds a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Backend and Native Linear Algebra for Apple Silicon
PyTorch 2.14 ships a preview NCCL backend that lets distributed training jobs survive a machine failure without a full restart, plus native…
Shanghai AI Lab Releases a 744-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Research Agent, Paper Later
Shanghai AI Laboratory published the weights for its 744-billion-parameter Atria Dawn Preview model three days before its technical paper. …
DeepMind Publishes Precomputed Predictions for All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Changes
Google DeepMind has published precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter human DNA changes in a new, searchable Alpha…
California Signs Adam's Law, the First Statute to Require Safety Audits of AI Companion Chatbots
California's SB 1119, signed September 10, 2026, is the first law to mandate independent child-safety audits of AI companion chatbots, alon…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model Rated "Critical" for Cyber Capability, but Rivals Match It Elsewhere
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is the first model to cross the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's own safety framework, discoveri…
Sakana AI Releases Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, Models That Orchestrate Other Models Instead of Being One
Sakana AI's Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 route tasks across pools of smaller, often open-weight models instead of relying on one large networ…
A Verified Version of SWE-Bench Pro Shows Coding Agents Were Reading Answers Off Git History
A new SWE-Bench Pro Verified benchmark closes git-history and web-lookup leaks that let coding agents fetch hidden solutions instead of sol…
DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash With a New Encoder-Decoder Architecture and MIT-Licensed Weights
DeepSeek's new 552-billion-parameter model splits prompt processing from response generation across separate encoder and decoder stacks, cu…