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The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Capital and consolidation are reshaping which teams control important pieces of the AI stack.
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As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks no longer require sophisticated skills and even lone individuals can create attacks that would not have been possible even a year ago.
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A swarm of AI agents attributed by researchers to OpenAI flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 packages in May 2026, abused RubyDoc.info’s documentation builder for remote code execution (RCE), and attempted to harvest developers’ API keys through a then-undisclosed caching flaw.
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Anthropic also found that hackers used AI in attacks against targets in Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic sectors. What we know on day 1,662 Continue reading...
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Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems Agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages in a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, the...
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ReasAlign: Reasoning Enhanced Safety Alignment against Prompt Injection Attack Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the development of powerful agentic systems capable of automating complex workflows across various fields.
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Fast meets open. 🚀 Qwen3.8-27B is now running on @cerebras with rapid inference. Try it now!
Official or high-signal @alibaba_qwen post with 187 visible interactions on AI developer tooling.
@reach_vbReset rolling out to all Codex & ChatGPT Work users! Grateful to everyone who helped us investigate the Astra quality issues and shared examples. We’ve identified and fixed issues with: > Skills over-triggering or preventing self-checks > Context...
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@rohanpaul_aiMeta's chief ai officer @alexandr_wang: "Internally at Meta, we have seen cases where, if you develop the right agentic loop and have the right evaluation system and metric for the agents to optimize, a swarm of agents can accomplish more than a team of...
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@beffjezosOnce we solve for far denser compute, everyone will want to own and run their models locally.
All these fly memes of people hacking it to do all sorts of stuff shows you the hunger people have to own and control their own models for their desired purposes. The reason it’s going viral is because it’s small enough that anybody can run it locally....
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@kunchenguidSomething very interesting is happening I’ve been monitoring user sentiment on new model releases and I have now seen 3 latest frontier models in a row where a significant amount of users chose to roll back to use a previous version 1. opus 5 - very...
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@thsottiauxAstra powered ships this week - Images 2.5 - GPT-Live-1 - Agents API - Data Agent - ChatGPT for Financial Services and yet it’s not yet DevDay. Busy plans for next week too.
Official or high-signal @thsottiaux post with 3,356 visible interactions on AI developer tooling.
@higgsfield_aiYou don’t need to learn After Effects anymore. All you need to know is what you want to build GPT-6 Astra + Higgsfield can turn a prompt into a GPU plugin directly inside AE. Now you can build advanced 3D engines inside of AE allowing you to create insane...
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@ns123abcNEWS: OpenAI withdraws from Caltech math hackathon and is no longer sponsoring it
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@tom_doerrOpenUI is a generative UI framework utilizing a compact, streaming-first language that consumes up to 67% fewer tokens than JSON for structuring interface components.
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@thsottiauxHi Astra users. A reset and a quick update on quality issues that have been posted around. Working with some of you, we have found and fixed the following issues: - Some skills written for previous models were triggering too often or preventing the model...
Official or high-signal @thsottiaux post with 7,824 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@beffjezosOnce RSI is here, it's just a game of capital and compute. If Google can achieve this before Anth and OpenAI IPO, this would be huge
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@jachiam0I think, at this point, OpenAI should be very proactive and forthcoming about whether there have been any other hacking or unathorized egress incidents. If there aren't sufficient records to determine whether there were, then that should also be disclosed....
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@8teapiRumors that the kimi team has been disappeared after leaking national secrets to Claude
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@willcbMildly annoying that all the cloud agent platforms are like “select a repository” like cmon bro ive had Codex rearranging my filesystem without supervision for months its not that simple
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@gabriel1"your backpack is open" yes im running 100 agents by sharing internet from my phone to the macbook max in my backpack, I can't let it run hot
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@teortaxestexReally massive improvement with V4.1 Flash on kernel engineering. GLM-5.3 Flash is nowhere close.
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@gdb5M ChatGPT sites, and new feature drops:
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@simonwTurns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks: simonwillison.net OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Bombshell report from...
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@kalomazeI'm becoming more opposed to the intuition people have wrt "spiky capabilities are a function of how verifiable a domain is",the idea that things not shaped like math/SWE won't fall to RLVR the general primitive is information asymmetry and you can almost...
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@thsottiauxExcited to welcome Aidan & @Sasha from the Git AI team to OpenAI! They are building in the open and have developed an open-source tool that helps developers understand how coding agents contribute to their codebase. Together, we’ll make it easier for...
Official or high-signal @thsottiaux post with 996 visible interactions on AI developer tooling.
@thsottiauxMassive upgrade to creating, sharing and hosting sites directly through ChatGPT.
Official or high-signal @thsottiaux post with 989 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@bindureddy🚨 Announcing Smaug Flash - Open Weights, Dirt Cheap And Tuned For Personal Agents Excited to announce Smaug Flash, our latest open-weights fine-tune. Available on the RouteLLM API - $0.10 M input - $0.40 M output Smaug offers DeepSeek Flash-level...
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@ns123abc🚨 BREAKING: SemiAnalysis Dylan just acquired Citrini Research it's happening
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@emollickNow that METR long horizons is effectively saturated (Epoch found pre-Fable agents could do 18 weeks of human work), what is the best quantitative graph that shows the current exponential progress curve? Frontier Math is saturated, ARC-AGI is saturated,...
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Dev tool ChatGPT
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman (@gdb) posted that ChatGPT sites have reached 5M and that new feature drops are accompanying that milestone. Specific feature contents are not named in the supplied text.
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Model release Smaug Flash
@bindureddy announced Smaug Flash as an open-weights fine-tune aimed at personal agents, saying it is available on the RouteLLM API at $0.10M input and $0.40M output. Authority is the poster’s own claim; no other supplied posts corroborate it.
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Dev tool Claude Code
@claudedevs announces Claude Code’s claude plugin eval: create test cases, run a plugin or skill against them, score the runs, and compare by rerunning without the plugin.
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Hot OpenAI
@artificialanlys reports OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.5 taking the top two Image Arena spots, with higher quality in under half the time at the same price as GPT Image 2. This is a third-party benchmark result, not a primary release notice.
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Quota reset GLM Coding Plan
@zixuanli_: Some users saw quota being consumed during the free window. That’s usually because a subagent is still on GLM-5.3. For fully zero quota usage, set all subagent models to GLM-5.3-Flash in Settings. But use models based on the task: GLM-5.3 s
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Policy Codex
OpenAI’s Théophile Sautter says GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark will be retired next week, citing declining usage and better available models. No exact calendar date is stated.
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Expanding data center computing requirements are intensifying operational demands on power storage installations while component supply chains experience capacity constraints driven by artificial intelligence server production.
Capital and consolidation +7.1Artificial intelligence ventures and hardware manufacturers across diverse sectors are pursuing substantial capital infusions through large-scale private venture funding rounds and initial public market equity offerings.
Robotics and embodied AI +1.3Embodied robotics development is expanding across physical domains, encompassing human motion datasets for humanoid training, specialized industrial manufacturing tooling, and mobile maintenance support for hardware repair.
AI policy and governance -3.6State and federal legislators are advancing statutory oversight bills and audit mandates for frontier artificial intelligence systems to enforce institutional guardrails and require human oversight.
Frontier model releases -13.4Frontier artificial intelligence labs are releasing new multimodal model architectures designed for improved inference efficiency while prompting broader technical discussion around general capability milestones.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +7.28%, Arm Holdings plc +4.17%, Advanced Micro Devices +2.49% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +7.28% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +4.17% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +2.49% |
| AMZN | Amazon.com | +1.94% |