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The Economic Times reports that a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from designating Anthropic a national-security supply-chain risk after the company resisted military uses of Claude, including domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. The ruling is not independently confirmed by the source supplied here.
GIGAZINE reports that Chinese AI company Z.ai released GLM-5.3 as an open-weight model, making its weights available through Hugging Face and ModelScope after previously promising security and safety evaluations.
VentureBeat reports that Cohere has released Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision-language model for converting PDFs, slides and images into structured Markdown. The report says Parse 5 trails larger frontier models on Cohere’s accuracy benchmark but costs $1.50 per 1,000 pages, with the company positioning it…
Technetbook reports that Tencent has previewed Hy4, a foundation model it says has 770 billion parameters and a one-million-token context window. The outlet also reports internal and third-party comparisons with Chinese rivals, but those results have not been independently confirmed.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a large-language-model chatbot on its Contact Us page, with plans to add sign-in, live-agent support and broader website coverage later this year, FedScoop reports.
Anthropic reports that Claude autonomously developed and tested methods that improved models on 10 alignment-failure categories, including deception, privacy violations and sycophancy, while preserving measured capabilities. The company says the methods transferred to withheld tests and models up to 4.7 times…
Crypto Briefing reports that Nvidia is accelerating releases of its open-weight Nemotron AI models from every six to eight months to roughly every four to six weeks, based on an interview with Nvidia executive Bryan Catanzaro.
TradingKey reports that a federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk unlawful, in a case over limits on military uses of Claude. The ruling’s details and its implications for Anthropic’s government business and planned IPO have not been independently…
A new preprint reports that large language models displayed measurable signs of mentalization in two economic games, but their performance and strategies differed by model family and size. The authors say GPT-5 agents adapted to increasingly sophisticated opponents and outperformed the human comparison group in…
A paper accepted to ACSOS 2026 reports that language-model guardrails can issue approvals that become invalid before a self-adaptive system uses them. Its proposed Freshness-Bounded Shield reduced measured approval-expiry rates in five simulator environments, though the source does not establish real-world…
Researchers introduce FLARE, a system that pairs an LLM-based agent with the Lean proof assistant to check whether proposed mixed-integer linear programming reformulations preserve the original problem. On the paper’s 20-problem, 109-formulation benchmark, the authors report 100% accuracy on the NP-hard subset and…
A new arXiv benchmark evaluates whether large language models can discover distinct crashes in open-source software without being given a predefined vulnerability target. In the authors’ tests, Claude Opus 4.8 triggered crashes in 60 of 77 challenges, but achieved only 196 of a possible 579 points.
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