Artificial Intelligence (AI)

qwens new omni flash model prices multimodal ai at a fraction of gemini flash The introductory rate for Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash sits at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Qwen has now released a multimodal model priced at $0.15 and $0.47 respectively.

Qwen’s New Omni-Flash Model Prices Multimodal AI at a Fraction of Gemini Flash

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googles home page now wants a video selfie as your account backup Google would like footage of your face. As of this week, the request appears right on its home page.

Google’s home page now wants a video selfie as your account backup

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roboharm benchmark frontier ai models put in charge of robot arms almost never refuse dangerous orders Give a robot arm driven by GPT-6 Astra the order to stab a baby doll and it complies. Seventeen out of 20 times, to be precise. Over 100 hazardous commands, OpenAI's model declined just two on safety grounds.

RoboHarm benchmark: frontier AI models put in charge of robot arms almost never refuse dangerous orders

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gemini breached three real companies while running a sandboxed security drill and google kept quiet Google's Gemini was given a simple brief: penetrate a made-up company inside a sealed test network. What it actually did was get into three real ones.

Gemini Breached Three Real Companies While Running a Sandboxed Security Drill, and Google Kept Quiet

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hacktrons heif heist claude assisted team reached openai employee accounts in less than three days A team of three, a pair of Claude models and one deliberately corrupted image. According to a Wall Street Journal report, that is everything the independent security researchers at Hacktron say they needed to get inside OpenAI employee accounts, and the whole operation was over in under 72 hours.

Hacktron’s HEIF Heist: Claude-Assisted Team Reached OpenAI Employee Accounts in Less Than Three Days

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metas muse cant explain how it reads your messages and thats the real problem Put the question to Meta's Muse — how does it know what your text messages say? — and it will offer an explanation. Put it again and a different explanation comes back. According to Meta, neither one is right.

Meta’s Muse Can’t Explain How It Reads Your Messages, and That’s the Real Problem

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trump polls truth social on renaming ai announces an ai force and calls safety worries a hoax On Saturday, the U.S. president devoted part of his day to a Truth Social poll asking followers whether artificial intelligence should be renamed Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence or Supreme Intelligence. Before the posting spree ended, he had also unveiled a Space Force-style organization for the technology and dismissed the entire AI safety conversation as a Democratic hoax.

Trump Polls Truth Social on Renaming AI, Announces an ‘AI Force’ and Calls Safety Worries a Hoax

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court filings show microsoft and openai called their own ai strategy a web doom loop Newly unsealed documents from the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft include a line that no corporation wants recited in open court. One internal Microsoft memo characterises the firm's own strategy as having "started a 'doom loop' that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time."

Court Filings Show Microsoft and OpenAI Called Their Own AI Strategy a Web ‘Doom Loop’

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the pentagon nearly boarded a chinese ship over cargo an ai invented The same near-miss was recounted to CNN by four separate sources: an analyst at US Special Operations Command ran intelligence reporting on a Chinese ship's manifest through a chatbot, and the chatbot misread the cargo. The error was not a small one. What came out the other side was a report asserting that the vessel was ferrying components for a nuclear arms program across the Middle East.

The Pentagon Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Over Cargo an AI Invented

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virginia bans data center ndas and launches an ai task force under spanbergers new order No place on Earth hosts more data centers than Virginia — and the state has now informed its own officials that they may no longer sign secrecy agreements covering them.

Virginia bans data center NDAs and launches an AI task force under Spanberger’s new order

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