Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort mode of its Exa Agent API. It coordinates subagents across thousands of sources for list building and entity enrichment. Exa reports it beats Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent on 4 benchmarks, including 81.4% soft recall on WANDR.
Discover how to build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and adversarial robustness workflow using AugLy for images, text, audio, and PyTorch datasets.
OpenAI and the other defendants in Apple’s trade secret misappropriation lawsuit made a new filing, asking the court to strike…
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It delivers up to 3.13x faster decoding on Apple M5 Max and 2.66x on H100, with identical output under greedy decoding.
AI agents operating in OpenAI’s research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab’s knowledge.
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
Google AI subscriptions now include premium Colab perks.
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing’s World War II codebreaking work.
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent’s promotion across its own apps and beyond.
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later.
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls. Altar-1 powers Aikido Machine, the company’s autonomous pentesting appliance for on-prem and air-gapped networks.
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.
Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with hint-guided self-distillation.
Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings.
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.
Lowe’s uses OpenAI models to power Mylow and Mylow Companion, helping customers and associates answer 25M+ questions and move home improvement projects forward.
The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata.
Black Forest Labs (BFL), the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model (WAM) for robot control. The model reads camera frames, robot state and a text instruction.
Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live Avatars can check you into a hotel while you keep chatting.
Benjamin and Chance cover the week in Apple news, including hands-on with the new M6 Mac mini and AirPods 5,…
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