Latest in AI
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Thales launches HexaForce, an AI command system pitched to NATO as a European option
Thales’s AI-assisted command and control system is already with the French Army, and the company says NATO countries are in advanced talks.
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UK puts £300m of dedicated military AI funding in place to 2030, with nothing fixed after
Written answers to Parliament itemise £300m of UK defence AI funding to 2029-30 and say money for 2030 to 2035 is not yet confirmed.
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A preprint claims 200,000-token context on a 24 GiB laptop
A single-author preprint reports a 27B model running at 212,992 tokens of context on a 24 GiB MacBook. Specific numbers, but, none of them…
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Mistral’s models go into Firefox’s Smart Window
Mistral Small 4 lands in Firefox’s Smart Window beta, with the two companies’ own posts not quite matching on regions or on data retention.
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OpenAI puts sponsored agents inside ChatGPT
Click an ad in ChatGPT and you can now talk to a business-sponsored agent, with HubSpot and Shopify distribution, and no stated answer yet…
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OpenAI opens its managed agent harness in public beta
OpenAI’s managed agent harness reaches public beta with no platform fee, alongside GPT-Live-1 general availability at $0.05 a minute of voice session.
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IBM and NASA release an open lunar foundation model
A model trained on nine instruments across four lunar missions, open on Hugging Face, with no parameter count or licence named in the announcement.
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Anthropic’s September misuse report names specific operations
Anthropic’s September report names specific operations (twenty-plus government targets, 1.8 million Android APKs, 8,913 planted articles), all of it vendor-detected and unverifiable from outside.
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Injected plans can slip past chain-of-thought monitors, researchers report
A new preprint reports 25 to 33 per cent monitor evasion by hiding a harmful plan in a model’s context, and finds that showing…
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Nvidia adds a fault-tolerance layer to its open-source quantum stack
Nvidia’s new CUDA-Q Logical layer targets quantum error correction rather than qubit counts, though the eye-catching speed-up figures come from partners describing their own…