In a single case, a bunch of Russian state-sponsored hackers recognized by Microsoft as Midnight Blizzard used Claude for reconnaissance, breaching targets that included Ukrainian and different European authorities networks, and stole information and maintained entry. Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters used Claude in virtually each stage of its hacking and extortion campaigns. Disinformation campaigns specializing in…
One in every of China’s most outstanding AI labs, Moonshot AI, believes it may possibly flip its widespread open-weight mannequin into severe gross sales progress. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that the lab is concentrating on $2 billion in annualized income by the tip of the 12 months, double the corporate’s reported income run fee for…
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An agent harness is the code around a model: execution loop, tools, context, state, recovery, and verification. Per the Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard, GPT-5 solves 35.2% of tasks inside Terminus 2 but 49.6% inside Codex CLI with identical weights. Most benchmarks keep that harness fixed. HarnessDev proposed by team of researchers from ByteDance Seed, Singapore University…
Twenty-five main mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their mental work as they search to one-up one another with options to well-known math issues. Every signatory has been awarded the Fields Medal, thought-about probably the most prestigious prize in arithmetic. This week, NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of pressuring…
In relation to Chinese language AI labs utilizing distillation methods to extract information from frontier mannequin makers, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is hoping regulators keep out of it. In actual fact, he thinks U.S. AI labs ought to maybe play the identical recreation. “I might do nothing,” he informed CNBC in an interview earlier…
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other robotics, is nearing a new round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of about $500 million, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The new financing comes just three months after Mecka announced that it…
Keith Rabois has spent most of his 13-year career in venture capital associated with Khosla Ventures’ longtime home in Menlo Park, California. But that’s changing. Speaking Thursday night at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in New York’s West Village, Rabois confirmed that Khosla Ventures is opening its first-ever office outside Sand Hill Road. The new outpost will…
Anthropic has published a new plugin evals workflow for Claude Code. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin against realistic prompts, grades what Claude produced, and compares the result with a run where the plugin is not loaded. It answers 3 questions plugin developers could not previously measure: does the skill trigger, does it…
