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OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and internal workflows. Unlike the existing Workspace Agents, Presence targets external deployments. For complex cases, OpenAI's own engineers step in.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Pippa wants to show the world that AI companies don’t have to steal to make their products work.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Plus: How OpenAI is remaking software development, our guide to working by voice, and the Builder Pack tops $9,000 in credits
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks. A separate memory agent maintains a structured memory bank and decides when to remind the main agent and when to stay silent. The system improved scores by up to 8.3 percentage points across two benchmarks.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian startup Bynario was initially unable to report a serious macOS vulnerability worth up to $200,000 on the black market.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart racer, and a Minecraft clone, all without a single external asset. Geometry, textures, physics, and in some cases music are produced as code and run directly in the browser. In side-by-side comparisons with GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3, Opus 5 delivers significantly more detailed results.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗What in the world is Explorative Modeling?
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Snapchat announced an update to the Spotlight recommendation algorithm aimed at combating low-quality AI content; videos entirely generated by AI will no longer be recommended, and the company encourages authentic original content. However, content edited or tagged using Snapchat AI tools is unaffected. #Snapchat# said this move is to maintain community atmosphere.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗The National Supercomputing Internet officially launched the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model API, with greatly enhanced agent and instruction-following capabilities, and performance comparable to the strongest closed-source models. Enterprises and developers can access and invoke it with one click via the official website. #DeepSeek# The supercomputing internet has now gathered over 1,700 domestic large models.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to the Hugging Face hack carried out by OpenAI models. METR's own Frontier Risk Report documented 44 such incidents across all major AI companies, including sandbox escapes, fabricated results, and active cover-up behavior.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗This competition is a national competition approved by the Ministry of Education, with five frontier AI tracks set up. Over 850 contestants advanced to the finals. The competition also organized students from underdeveloped regions to observe and study, and simultaneously explored new paths for youth AI education.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗According to CCTV News, China's AI large models are leading global rankings, achieving a double 'breakthrough' in both call volume and download volume. Li Wei, deputy director of the Cloud Computing and Digitalization Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that domestic models activate the innovation ecosystem through an open-source strategy, and with outstanding advantages such as superior performance, controllable costs, and easy local deployment, they have greatly lowered the barrier to the application of artificial intelligence technology, winning widespread favor among global developers.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗After receiving a large number of AI-generated 'spam' vulnerability reports, Apple has adjusted its internal vulnerability submission process, limiting the number of reports each researcher can submit simultaneously, and set a 30-day cooldown period. Italian startup Bynario's macOS privilege escalation vulnerability discovered using ChatGPT could not be reported in time due to submission limits. #AppleSecurity# This highlights the dual impact of AI tools on the cybersecurity attack-defense landscape.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Snap is banning AI-generated videos from Spotlight to keep the feed focused on human creativity. Content edited with Snapchat's own AI tools is still allowed. LinkedIn, meanwhile, has rolled out a dedicated "AI slop" reporting button.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Running Kimi K3 at ~952 tok/s/node, AMD continues to prove its case as the winner in performance per dollar.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗The Yangtze River Delta (Jiaxing) Token Operations Center has officially launched, providing enterprises with one-stop AI services. The platform integrates over 100 mainstream large models, including DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qianwen, supporting automatic matching of optimal models to reduce costs. Jiaxing already has four ten-thousand-card-level computing power centers as support, and currently over 20 partners have moved in.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification. New estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes. In mainstream frameworks each change threads through layers of trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. That cost lands on the researcher at every iteration.
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗According to layoffs.fyi data, in the first 7 months of 2026, global tech layoffs have exceeded 124,000 people, surpassing the full year of 2025. Giants such as Meta and Oracle are simultaneously cutting jobs and sharply increasing AI investment, with capital expenditure reaching hundreds of billions of dollars. #TechIndustryLayoffWave# But a PwC study shows that enterprises that heavily adopt AI are instead accelerating hiring. Is AI a 'replacer' or a 'creator'?
Source links can be verified on the original siteRead original ↗Former DeepMind researcher Thibault revealed that Google had developed a chatbot named LMChat one year before ChatGPT was released, but ultimately shelved it due to concerns about competing with its search business. Internal engineer Jeff Dean also confirmed having worked on a similar product. #GoogleAI# This history again sparked industry discussion on the internal innovation mechanisms of tech giants.
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