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Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's
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TL;DR OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a secure test, exploited a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cybersecurity eval. OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained
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I thought the green and blue categories in today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle were fun ones. You might, too, if you love movies and college football. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sure, you could build a more powerful Linux workstation, but even then, you'd be hard-pressed to make a better machine than System76's new 2026 Thelio Mira Custom desktop PC. That's because the computer is
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AI and ML Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult AI models will do just about anything to complete the task you ask, including cheating to get there, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI). The group found
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Don't call them chatbots Who needs expensive frontier models to find software vulns? Cisco has just released two open-weight models that specialize in finding known bugs in existing codebases. The models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, are part of Cisco’s new Antares family of security small language models (SLMs)
