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Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: More Control Over Video Generation
Google has unveiled an update to its generative video model, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. Developers get scene extension, keyframe control and 4K output.
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Flood of AI Bug Reports in QEMU Called a DoS Attack on Maintainers
In a matter of minutes, one user filed more than 125 cookie-cutter, AI-generated bug reports in QEMU. A Red Hat engineer viewed it as a denial of service against the project's maintainers.
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A Compressed 4-Bit Model Beat Its Own Full-Precision Original
Multiverse Computing has introduced Quantization-Aware Healing: after compression and quantization, a 4-bit model outperformed its own 16-bit version on 7 of 9 benchmarks.
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Anthropic's best model stalls while cheap tools thrive
The FT reports some intriguing figures on the revenues of Anthropic and OpenAI, while Ramp's data show that Anthropic's most expensive models are drawing fewer users.
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Copilot's AI "autofix" opened a hole in Snowflake's Jira
GitHub Copilot's automated AI assistant swapped safe code for vulnerable code and opened a path to Snowflake credentials. Five days later, an autonomous Wiz agent found the flaw.
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SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Deal to Acquire Cursor
Cursor, the startup building AI tools for programmers, has officially become part of SpaceX. The company promises developers access to the world's largest fleet of GPUs.
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Qwen3.8-27B: 32 demos put together in one sitting
To mark the release of the Qwen3.8-27B model, a gallery of 32 self-contained demo pages, generated in a single session, has been published. Some of the works are shown at different compute precisions.
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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash — half the price of its predecessor
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, an update to its coding-and-agents “workhorse” that arrived just three weeks after version 3.6 and costs half as much.
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: A Release with No Announcement and Mysterious Pelicans
The Chinese lab DeepSeek has released a new model, V4 Pro — so far only via the API and without an official announcement page. Simon Willison drew attention to several curious details of the launch.
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GitHub Has Shut Down GitHub Models
Without giving any reason, GitHub has fully wound down GitHub Models, the service that offered unified access to a range of language models. Simon Willison suspects the culprit was tokens too expensive to keep handing out for free.
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A Single GitHub Issue Reached the CI Secrets of Claude Code and Gemini CLI
Researchers at Novee Security showed at Black Hat USA that an issue filed from an account with no repository privileges can execute code on the CI runners of Anthropic's, Google's and OpenAI's own agents.
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Texas Puts New Data Centers on Hold and Demands Audits
Governor Greg Abbott has ordered that all new data-center projects undergo review by regulators and the grid operator. The state, long reputed to be a developer's paradise, is now facing the threat of overload.
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Stateless MCP: the protocol update that won back Simon Willison's interest
The July 28, 2026 revision of the Model Context Protocol did away with server-side sessions. Simon Willison explains why this simplifies development and makes agents safer — and shows off three tools of his own.
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xAI Sues Minnesota Over Law Targeting “Nudification” Apps
Days before the law was to take effect, Elon Musk's company filed suit against the state's attorney general, arguing that the ban on nudification technology violates the First Amendment.
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AI Learns to Break Ciphers: The CryptanalysisBench Benchmark Finds New Attacks
A new benchmark measures how well large language models can do mathematical cryptanalysis. Some models are already finding vulnerabilities not previously described in the literature.
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Moonshot AI prepares to release Kimi K3 — the first open model in the 3T class
An announcement for Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI has appeared on Hugging Face — according to its developers, the first open model at the three-trillion-parameter level. The weights are expected to be published on July 27, 2026.
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The Gray Market for Tokens: How LLM Access Gets Resold at a Discount
An investigation by Matt Lenhard describes the ecosystem that has grown up around reselling language-model tokens by pooling API keys — mostly in China.
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Anthropic says Opus 5 is the hardest to prompt-inject
Boris Cherny of Anthropic notes that the new Opus 5 model is extremely hard to hack with prompt injection — a result he rates above its benchmark scores.
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SharedRoot: Claude Cowork's Agent Could Break Out of Its Virtual Machine to Reach Mac Files
Researchers at Accomplish AI have shown how Anthropic's AI agent breaks out of a Linux sandbox with a single message and gains access to a Mac's entire file system. The vulnerability affected roughly 500,000 macOS users.