An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
Z.ai and Qwen independently shipped near-identical architectures: 3:1 linear hybrids, compressed indexers, gated residuals, and Muon training.
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
Vercel has open-sourced vgpu, the WebGPU library it built to ship the shaders on vercel.com. It treats .wgsl files as importable TypeScript modules, runs the same shader in the browser, in headless Node.js via Dawn, and in a deterministic CI…
Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out…
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
U.S. court rules Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliation for its public criticism of government AI policy. The designation formally remains…
Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace appeared first on The Decoder.
Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI's next big play
OpenAI is building a "Persistent Mode" for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the relevant code, and OpenAI confirmed the tests. The feature comes with risks, though. With GPT-5.6 Sol,…