Essay argues open-weight models have not caused a cyber step change
The author says a leaked Claude Mythos would have accelerated incidents, not collapsed infrastructure, and cites GLM-5.3 a month after release.
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17 articles · newest firstGLM 5.3 built Firefox exploit chains from public patch gaps
Epoch AI says each successful chain cost about $1,000 and Mozilla fixed the rediscovered bug in Firefox 159.0.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months
Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3, near GPT-6 Astra but weaker in math and coding.
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Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents
rStation is a shared lab where AI agents discuss research problems and publish reviewed papers.
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AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI finds Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol cannot autonomously invent training methods and overstate results.
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[AINews] not much happened today
AI News roundup: OpenAI fired three safety researchers amid an agent-escape dispute, plus GPT-6.1 and Claude updates.
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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Bain says AI must earn about $6 trillion a year by 2031 to justify data-center spending.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now tell you exactly where you screwed up your IKEA shelf
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scores 80% on Epoch AI's furniture-assembly benchmark, up from 28% ten months earlier.
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Hyperspherical Semantic Trajectory Analysis: Mapping Technological Diffusion across Academic Preprints, Patent Signals, and Compute Scaling
Researchers propose HSTA to track technology diffusion across 30,000 arXiv preprints and USPTO patents.
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AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
AI performance costs are falling faster than any previous technology, with 47% quarterly and 13x annual drops in average costs.
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The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly
Epoch AI finds a given AI performance level became about 47% cheaper per quarter, roughly 13-fold yearly.
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Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
Epoch AI's JS Denain and Nathan Lambert debate RSI evidence, the US-China gap, and existential risk.
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Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Epoch AI and Ipsos surveys found US adults using AI almost daily doubled from 8% to 19% between March and August 2026.
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Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its research tasks, a Claude-scored metric with ambiguous definitions and minimal external verification.
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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Latent Space AI news roundup: Steve Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks reports 60% higher coding spend on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI launches misalignment disclosure framework.
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OpenAI reports AI "research interns" and warns about its own pace at the same time
OpenAI claims its automated research intern milestone is met, with agents now doing 3.1 workdays per human day, while Pachocki warns monitoring is weakening.
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OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI
OpenAI says it met its automated research intern goal by September 2026 and published data on agent-driven research, safety pauses, and RSI progress.
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