Machine Learning Research
Custom Prompts for Safer Code: A Stanford team built a pipeline to improve system prompts to build more secure code
Large language models (LLMs) can write useful code, but they often introduce security vulnerabilities.
Machine Learning Research
Machine Learning Research
Fresh Data for Coding Models: Hugging Face updated The Stack, the largest crawl of public GitHub repositories
The biggest open dataset of source code went years without an update.
Machine Learning Research
Claude Weakens a Quantum Lock: Anthropic engineers used Claude Mythos to identify cryptographic weaknesses in HAWK and AES
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been testing quantum-proof replacements for today’s encryption algorithms.
Machine Learning Research
DeepSeek Pushes the Frontier Again: DeepSeek refreshed its V4 Flash model with an impressive fine-tune
DeepSeek’s updated small model overtook the company’s own flagship.
Machine Learning Research
A Full Accounting of Models’ GPU Use: Researchers detail the energy and water needed to train a family of open weight models
Assessments of the environmental impact of large language models typically focus on their final training runs, but there’s a lot more to building AI systems.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Models Hack Hugging Face: Inside the accidental cyberattack that compromised Hugging Face's systems
To measure how good its models were at hacking, OpenAI reduced guardrails and ran them against a benchmark’s problem set.
Machine Learning Research
Claude Debuts Another Opus: Anthropic addresses some (but not all) complaints about Fable with Claude Opus 5
After launching Claude Fable 5, the future of Anthropic’s once-flagship Opus line was uncertain, except as a fallback for the company’s premium models.
Machine Learning Research
Web Retrieval Flusters LLMs: AI agents searching online can struggle to retrieve correct info, researchers find
Large language models often are called upon to gather news. In this task, researchers found, their ability to find relevant reports is the weakest link.
Business
Meta Sparks A Price War: Muse Spark 1.1 makes a jump in intelligence at a lower price than peers
With Llama, Meta marked itself as an open alternative to OpenAI. With its new closed models, Meta now positions itself as a low-cost, high-value competitor.
Machine Learning Research
Kimi K3 Reveals How A Giant Frontier AI Model Works: Moonshot's latest model outshines all but GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude 5 Fable
Moonshot’s latest model leapfrogged the month-old GLM-5.2 and a host of proprietary competitors to finish just behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on many benchmarks.
Machine Learning Research
Measuring Models’ Manipulation: Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon built Puppet to gauge models' influence on users' beliefs
Providers of large language models stand to benefit by building models that spur user engagement, but users may bear a cost in undue influence on their world views.
Machine Learning Research
Put the Lab in the Loop: Robin automates drug discovery, matching chemical processes of known drugs to research on diseases
An AI agent proposed new medical uses for established drugs nearly autonomously — uses that were supported by experiments on isolated human cells — with human input only to name diseases to be treated and run the AI-proposed lab experiments.