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Apple has accused a former engineer of exploiting a previously unknown authentication vulnerability to download dozens of confidential hardware-related files weeks after he joined rival OpenAI, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges that Chang Liu, a system electrical engineer who left Apple […]

Anthropic has revealed a hidden internal representation space inside its large language models, dubbed the “J-space”, populated with words that never appear in a model’s output yet appear to influence its reasoning. The discovery offers the clearest glimpse yet into the black box of large language models, but researchers caution it is far from a […]

Researchers at Peking University have built an all-optical chip interconnect that achieves more than a 100-fold increase in AI inference speed while using roughly one-ninth the compute power of a commercial GPU, according to a study published in the journal National Science Review. The system tackles one of the most persistent bottlenecks in AI hardware: […]

Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, Mark Zuckerberg’s flagship initiative to build “a personal superintelligence that knows us deeply”, launched its first public product on July 8 with a name that, in hindsight, was setting expectations far too high. Muse Image, an AI-powered image generation model with 30 filters designed to work with Instagram content, lasted less than […]

A team of researchers has published ARCANA, a collaborative multi-agent framework designed to solve ARC-AGI-2 reasoning tasks, the benchmark that tests abstract visual reasoning in ways that remain difficult for current AI systems. The paper, submitted to arXiv on July 10, proposes a structured approach that combines program synthesis with iterative self-correction. ARC-AGI (Abstraction and […]

Every encrypted message, financial transaction, medical record, and government document stored today could remain vulnerable for years, not because of flaws in current cryptography, but because a future quantum computer may be able to break it in a single day. The response to that threat is now moving from software patches to the silicon itself. […]

Meta has been upgrading its AI image generation capabilities through its Superintelligence Labs, positioning the technology as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT with DALL-E integration and Google’s Imagen-powered tools. But hands-on comparisons of the upgraded Meta AI against its rivals reveal a clear dividing line: Meta’s offering is optimized for the social media ecosystem […]

A new neuroimaging foundation model called NeuroVFM has demonstrated that self-supervised learning on uncurated hospital data, without radiologist reports, disease labels, or manual curation, can outperform language-supervised models on 156 diagnostic tasks, including prospective triage. The work is published in Nature Medicine, with code and model weights released on GitHub. NeuroVFM is built on Vol-JEPA, […]

ExpressVPN has launched ExpressAI, a privacy-focused AI platform that processes every user prompt inside a confidential computing enclave, a hardware-isolated environment where encryption keys are generated on the chip itself, making the data unreadable to the company operating the service. The platform, bundled into ExpressVPN’s Pro plan at no additional cost, addresses a growing tension […]

The French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) has successfully conducted the first outdoor free-flight test of its electromagnetic railgun system, firing a projectile at the Institute’s proving ground in Baldersheim in a test that lasted only milliseconds but marked years of laboratory research and engineering. Unlike conventional firearms, which use chemical propellants to accelerate a […]