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100 articlesMistral Launches Shieldstral, a 3B Open-Weights Multimodal Safety Classifier
Mistral AI releases Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size by framing content moderation as a policy-adaptive question-answering task.
Read the news →Apple widens trade secrets case against OpenAI
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI has expanded, with a new filing naming more ex-employees and seeking expedited discovery from OpenAI and Jony Ive's startup io.
Read the news →Hoplite (YC S26) launches to deploy coding agents in the cloud
Hoplite, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched on Hacker News with a platform that deploys coding agents in the cloud and ports over your local setup, including sessions, memories and MCP servers.
Read the news →SQLite 'Critical' CVEs Were LLM Slop, JFrog Finds
JFrog researchers say a batch of SQLite advisories flagged as critical by NVD and CISA appear to be AI-generated 'LLM slop' with non-working PoCs and non-existent code references.
Read the news →Karpathy Hands Opus 5 the Lord of the Rings and 1M Tokens
Andrej Karpathy gave Claude Opus 5 the first paragraph of Lord of the Rings with a 1M token budget (about USD 10) and asked it to visualize the story. The janky but fascinating 3D result is sparking a big debate about how we benchmark frontier models.
Read the news →EU AI Act rules become enforceable across Europe
EU AI Act rules on AI models became enforceable today, making Brussels the world's leading AI regulator. Here's what changes for founders and businesses in Europe.
Read the news →AI financial advice is surprisingly good, study finds
Large language models encourage smart financial behavior but fall short on subtle aspects of saving and investing, according to MIT Sloan research.
Read the news →Cursor users frustrated as usage page replaces dollar costs with token counts
Cursor changed its usage window from dollar amounts to token counts, and the CSV export has lost cost information too. Users say tracking daily spending is now far harder.
Read the news →YC releases qm, a multiplayer agent harness for startups
Y Combinator's yc-software team open-sources qm, a multiplayer agent harness that lets startup teams collaborate with AI agents in Slack and on the web.
Read the news →DeepSeek-V4-Flash API launches in public beta with major agent upgrades
DeepSeek officially releases the V4-Flash API in public beta with a re-post-trained 0731 checkpoint, big agent benchmark gains, and native Responses API support.
Read the news →Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body robot control
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2, a family of three models bringing whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration to robots.
Read the news →OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Slashing Luna Pricing by 80 Percent
OpenAI announces GPT-5.6 with Luna variant now 80% cheaper, delivering a dramatic price-performance breakthrough for developers and builders.
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