JBDistill Generates Its Own Jailbreaks - 81.8% Attack Rate
Johns Hopkins and Microsoft's JBDistill achieves 81.8% attack success rate across 13 LLMs by auto-generating fresh adversarial prompts on demand.
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Perplexity CTO Moves Away from MCP Toward APIs and CLIs
At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.
Codex Runs Halo on Modern Macs in a Single Prompt
A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.
Thinking Machines Lands Gigawatt Compute from Nvidia
Nvidia commits a gigawatt of Vera Rubin chips to Mira Murati's startup, a supply the FT values at tens of billions of dollars, alongside an undisclosed cash investment.
NVIDIA Ships Nemotron 3 Super - 120B Open Model for Agents
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open model with only 12B active at inference, combining Mamba-2 and Transformer layers for agentic AI workloads with a 1M token context window.
Meta Unveils Four MTIA Chip Generations in Two Years
Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.
Claude Code Login Outage Locks Developers Out
Anthropic's Claude Code CLI suffered an OAuth authentication outage on March 11, locking developers out mid-work while the Claude API remained operational.
Anthropic Launches Institute as Powerful AI Looms
Anthropic has consolidated its red team, societal impacts, and economic research teams into a new body called the Anthropic Institute, warning that extremely powerful AI is arriving faster than most expect.
IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.
16 Open-Source RL Libraries, One Shared GPU Bottleneck
A Hugging Face survey of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries finds the entire ecosystem has converged on async disaggregated training to fix a single brutal bottleneck: GPU idle time during long rollouts.
Iran Targets US Tech Facilities - What It Means for AI
Iran's IRGC designated facilities of Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir across Israel and the Gulf as legitimate targets - with AWS data centers already struck by drones.
China Restricts OpenClaw AI in Government and Banks
Chinese authorities ordered government agencies and state-owned banks to remove or restrict OpenClaw, citing security risks from the AI agent's autonomous operation and broad data access.
