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Researchers Extract Hidden Reasoning Traces From Proprietary LLM APIs

New research shows encrypted chain-of-thought blocks from frontier models can be recovered in plaintext by replaying them into weaker sibling models.

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Google Search Is Dying and AI Is Erasing the Web's Memory

A new The Walrus essay argues AI search is erasing the internet's collective memory, as Wikipedia traffic collapses, archives buckle, and the public record gets contaminated.

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Zuckerberg hits out at closed AI rivals as Meta doubles down on open models

Mark Zuckerberg has attacked closed AI rivals as Meta returns to open-weight models, arguing open source is the path to winning the AI race.

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Muse Glimmer: Meta open-sources a 30B agentic LLM tuned for local AI workflows

Meta Superintelligence Labs open-sources Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model designed for always-on local agent workflows on consumer hardware.

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Docker Sandboxes offer disposable microVM environments for AI agents

Docker launches Sandboxes, disposable microVM-isolated environments for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex that run unattended, safely.

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ChatGPT now blocks requests to copy an author's style

OpenAI's ChatGPT is refusing direct requests to mimic famous writers, but may still capture their broad qualities. The change could have real legal implications for AI writing tools.

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Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, an agent-first browser on Workers

Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, a stateless, agent-first web browser that runs in V8 isolates on Workers and is designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Tops ARC-AGI-2 at 61.4% for Pennies per Task

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 89% on ARC-AGI-1 and 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2 at a fraction of a cent per task, shaking up the ARC Prize leaderboard.

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AMD snaps up Taalas, the startup etching AI weights into silicon

AMD snaps up Toronto startup Taalas, whose model-specific chips etch weights directly into silicon and reportedly hit nearly 17,000 tokens per second in early demos.

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Qwen3.8 Max tops Artificial Analysis agentic index as best overall model

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max is now ranked the best overall model on Artificial Analysis' agentic index, topping flagship rivals in agentic capability.

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Demis Hassabis steps up as Google DeepMind Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Sundar Pichai announces a major Google DeepMind reshuffle: Demis Hassabis becomes Chair and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Gemini, and Jeff Dean departs after 27 years.

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Cloudflare open sources Cloudflare OS, an agent platform for the whole company

Cloudflare has open sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee an AI agent and workspace grounded in company context, skills, and internal systems.

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