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Lawmakers Ask To Blacklist Appin, A Hack-For-Hire Firm Censoring Journalists
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the Commerce Department to add an Indian hack-for-hire firm to the same blacklist used to cut off NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company that sold spyware to authoritarian governments. Th...
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...
Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM
How LLM Proof-Reading Quietly Rewrites Your Voice Ben Tasker ran an experiment that should worry anyone using AI to polish their writing. He took every blog post he wrote in 2026, handed them to Claude running Opus 5 for proof-rea...
Designing Tests for Agentic AI Tools
Why Passing Tests Don't Tell You How Your AI Agent Got There You ask a coding agent to update an API endpoint. The repository already has a decision about backward compatibility: keep the existing response fields. You want the imp...
A functional taxonomy for LLM inference in agentic tasks
A Taxonomy for Sorting Useful AI Inference From Mechanical Token Waste Every agentic coding session generates a token bill. Calls, input tokens, output tokens, latency, maybe reasoning tokens if you are lucky. Those numbers tell y...