An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported […]
Category: AI
Dartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
Despite the scandal, Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock wants more AI. (She wrote a piece for The Atlantic in September […]
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
Xu’s discussion of “third-party agent” orders also doesn’t include DoorDash’s own internal AI tools. Those include an “Ask DoorDash” feature […]
Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source cost controller for coding agents. […]
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its […]
AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google now each ship an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. We checked […]
Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up. The US has charged five individuals as […]
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 […]
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a […]
Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a […]