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Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (677+ words) Anthropic's security research team has systematically measured how fast large language models can exploit known vulnerabilities in Firefox and Windows. The results blow up long-standing assumptions about patch strategies. When software makers close security holes, a race starts. Attackers can…...
Claude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (426+ words) Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its so-called Mythos class. Early tests show a major leap in coding performance, but safety filters, pricing, and data retention policies are drawing sharp criticism. The evaluation service Vals…...
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (878+ words) Anthropic releases two new models in the fifth Claude generation. Claude Fable 5 claims the top spot in nearly all benchmarks, while Claude Mythos 5 (no longer in preview) is still only available to select partners. Both models share the same base…...
Microsoft Research's Lens proves detailed captions matter more than raw scale for training efficient image generators
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (474+ words) While Microsoft's MAI team grabs the spotlight with souped-up image models, Microsoft Research is proving how far you can go with limited compute, thanks to detailed captions and smart architecture choices. An ablation study shows that training with these long…...
Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (201+ words) the-decoder. com Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sharply criticized an internal memo proposing to make users "addicted" to the company's new AI agent Scout. That's "absolutely…...
Anthropic says Claude now writes over 90% of its code and wants the world to have an AI pause button
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (1005+ words) Anthropic is sharing internal data for the first time that shows how much Claude is allegedly speeding up its own AI development. At the same time, the company is pushing for the option of a verifiable, global development pause. Anthropic…...
Open AI CEO Sam Altman sees "proactive AI" as the next big phase after chatbots and agents
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (425+ words) After chat models and AI agents, Altman bets the next phase will be proactive AI running constantly in the background. But many companies are still struggling with the basics: costs are spiraling, products are too fragmented, and most users don't…...
x AI updates Grok Imagine to 1. 5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (165+ words) the-decoder. com x AI updates Grok Imagine to 1. 5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution Elon Musk's AI company x AI has released Grok Imagine Video 1. 5 in preview, a new image-to-video model. The model turns a single still image into a short…...
Ideogram 4. 0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2 K resolution and improved text rendering
1+ week, 1+ day ago (122+ words) the-decoder. com Ideogram 4. 0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2 K resolution and improved text rendering Ideogram has released version 4. 0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model. According to Ideogram, the new features include native 2 K resolution, transparent backgrounds,…...
Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12 B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM
1+ week, 1+ day ago (209+ words) the-decoder. com Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12 B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM Google Deepmind has released Gemma 4 12 B, an open AI model that brings multimodal capabilities to everyday laptops. It processes text, images, and audio…...