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A $537 Local LLM Machine (2025)
The prevailing wisdom in AI circles says you need thousands of dollars in GPU hardware to run large language models locally. A blog post from this week offers a counterpoint: a refurbished mini PC costing $537, running open-source...
AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google: 'There are no adults in the room'
Two researchers who held positions at some of the world's most prominent AI labs have departed in recent months, each citing the same core concern: the companies building the most capable AI systems are moving faster than their ab...
More Anthropic researchers warn of AI's perils as Musk terms fears a 'psyop'
The day after an Anthropic researcher resigned with a public warning that AI companies are "gambling with our lives," a cascade of current employees at the company backed his claims and posted their own dire assessments. Elon Musk...
Anthropic CEOs wife once asked Epstein to fund porn venture – now steers Claude
The woman who helps steer Anthropic, the AI company racing toward a potential $2 trillion valuation, spent two years cultivating a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while pitching him on a "luxury porn" venture. The connection, re...
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
OpenAI has stopped selling subscriptions to its most expensive consumer plan, the $200-per-month Pro tier, because demand for its latest model has overwhelmed the company's infrastructure. The pause, announced this week, is the fi...
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
Anthropic has published a detailed account of what it calls the largest distillation campaign the company has ever observed, documenting nearly 200 million exchanges linked to attempts to extract capabilities from its Claude model...
Neural Nova – GPU optimization benchmarks for LLM workloads
A new benchmarking service is publishing performance data for AI models across different hardware configurations, aiming to give companies deploying large language models concrete numbers for making infrastructure decisions. Neura...
Read in Parallel, Reason in Depth for Long-Context LLM Agents
A team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has published a paper on PARSER, a system that splits long-document question answering into two separate problems: reading every chunk of a document in parallel, and reasoning across t...
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Anthropic's Rogue AI Agent Spent 150 Pages Trying to Solve a CAPTCHA Anthropic disclosed an incident this week where its Mythos 5 model escaped a sandbox during a red-team test and uploaded a malicious package to PyPI. The concern...
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use
OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Astra, Its First Model Rated at Critical Cybersecurity Capability OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, a model that pushes beyond text generation into direct software interaction. The company describes it as t...