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OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode cuts the network exits that prompt injection attacks use to steal data from ChatGPT - but won't stop malicious instructions from entering the model in the first place.

Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.

Google DeepMind's new QAT checkpoints shrink the Gemma 4 E2B model to under 1GB, making serious on-device AI viable for phones and budget laptops.

The Trump administration is in talks with OpenAI about donating equity to a US sovereign-style fund, a deal that would make American taxpayers co-owners of the most valuable AI startup on Earth.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at Colossus 1, citing unexpected demand for its Gemini Enterprise agent platform.

NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra, released June 4, tops the US open-weight leaderboard with a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and 300-plus tokens per second throughput.

OpenAI's Dreaming V3 replaces ChatGPT's flat memory with a hierarchical relational system, kicking off a four-way race for AI personalization dominance.

Three new arXiv papers expose how developers miss AI sabotage 94% of the time, why LLMs converge structurally in code evolution, and how ZK proofs could verify frontier AI training.

NVIDIA's Agent Toolkit lands 110+ verified skills on GitHub covering robotics, autonomous vehicles, vision AI, and industrial systems - turning complex physical AI pipelines into single agent calls.

A beginner's guide to using AI tools like Fathom, Otter.ai, Zoom AI, and Google Meet's Gemini to automatically capture meeting notes and follow-up tasks.

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A practical beginner's guide to using AI tools to write a stronger resume, craft tailored cover letters, and prepare confidently for job interviews.

MiniMax M3 arrives as the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, 1M-token context, and native multimodality - at a fraction of proprietary pricing - but every benchmark figure is self-reported and the weights weren't even shipped at launch.

Claude Opus 4.8 sets new highs on SWE-bench Pro and long-context tasks while a 4x improvement in code flaw detection may matter more than any benchmark number.

Google's Antigravity 2.0 rewrites the platform from a browser IDE into a five-surface agent suite. The architecture is ambitious, the launch was a mess.

Current rankings of the best AI image generation models, including GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Recraft V4.1, HiDream-O1-Image, FLUX 2, Midjourney v8.1, and Ideogram 3.0, scored on human preference, text rendering, and photorealism.

Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on the GAIA benchmark, which tests real-world multi-step tasks requiring web browsing, tool use, and multi-hop reasoning.

Rankings of AI models by cost efficiency in May 2026, comparing performance per dollar across frontier and budget models. Updated with DeepSeek V4, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.6.

NVIDIA's 550B open-weight MoE model with 55B active parameters, hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, and 1M token context - the top-scoring US open model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

MiniMax M3 is an open-weight frontier model with a 1M-token context window, native multimodal input, and strong agentic coding at $0.60/M input tokens.

Meta's Llama 3.3 70B Instruct matches Llama 3.1 405B on instruction following and math while running at 4-5x lower cost, with the lowest hallucination rate of any open-weight model on the Vectara summarization leaderboard.

Kleiner Perkins closes a $3.5B dual fund - its largest raise in the current era - betting on Anthropic, Harvey, and a 2026 IPO window.

The LiteLLM supply chain attack originated from Trivy - the security scanner in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. TeamPCP compromised Trivy, stole the PyPI publishing token, and uploaded backdoored packages directly.

Google Research's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value cache by 6x and delivers 8x speedup on H100 GPUs with zero accuracy loss - no fine-tuning required.

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora six months after launch, killing a $1 billion Disney deal that was supposed to anchor the product's future.

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

ByteDance ships Seed1.8 for real-world agency, a new study finds reasoning models hide how hints shape their answers 90% of the time, and the Library Theorem proves indexed memory beats flat context windows exponentially.

OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro is a 1-trillion-parameter MoE model with 42B active params, 1M context, and agentic coding performance that rivals Claude Sonnet 4.6 at a fraction of the cost.

A step-by-step beginner's guide to using AI tools to optimize your resume, write cover letters, prep for interviews, and negotiate your salary.

Ai2's MolmoWeb is a fully open-source web agent that navigates browsers by screenshot alone, beating GPT-4o-based agents at the 8B scale with weights, training data, and code all released under Apache 2.0.

LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 contain a credential-stealing payload that exfiltrates SSH keys, cloud credentials, and crypto wallets to a lookalike domain. The package has 97 million monthly downloads.