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Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Cyber-1-Flash: A 5B-Active-Parameter Cyber Model That Pushes MDASH to 95.95% on CyberGym

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Microsoft AI has released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first model built specifically for cyber defense. The model does not ship as a standalone endpoint. It runs inside MDASH, Microsoft’s multi-model agentic scanning harness. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is a transformer with self-attention and sparse Mixture-of-Experts layers. It carries 137B total parameters with 5B active, and a 256k context length. […]

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Deploying a 1-Bit Bonsai-27B Model with PrismML llama.cpp and OpenAI-Compatible Local Inference Workflows

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In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the specialized CUDA kernels required to decode the model’s Q1_0_g128 GGUF quantization format. We begin by validating the GPU runtime, installing the required Python dependencies, compiling the CUDA-enabled inference binaries, and downloading the compressed model weights from

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Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury

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In opening statements, state argued Meta’s own research showed it harmed teens while firm’s attorneys pointed to transparencyThe long-awaited trial between the social media company Meta and the state of Tennessee began proceedings on Monday. Attorneys for Tennessee told a jury in Nashville that Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, disregarded internal research about its

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Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3

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Moonshot AI’s Kimi team and kvcache-ai have open-sourced AgentENV (AENV), a distributed platform for running agent environments at scale. AgentENV powers agentic reinforcement learning (RL) training for Kimi K3, Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. The code ships under an MIT license. Why Environment Infra Holds Back Agentic RL Agentic RL does not just sample text. It

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New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash

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Salamanca City Central says it is pausing project with Realbotix as it addresses concerns including data privacyA New York school district has walked back plans to introduce a humanoid robot at its high school after the proposal sparked backlash from educators and community members.The Salamanca City Central school district announced on 24 July in a

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No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter

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Charles MacKinnon disagrees with the British Gas owner’s justification for cutting 1,300 jobsAccording to Centrica’s boss, Chris O’Shea, most people using British Gas prefer to talk to a chatbot rather than a person (Customers prefer AI chatbots, says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre and back office jobs axed, 23 July).He says that 90%

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Perplexity Releases pplx, a Single-Binary CLI That Puts Its Search API in the Terminal for Coding Agents

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Perplexity has released pplx, an official command line client for its Search API. The tool returns grounded search results and extracted page text, all as JSON. According to its docs, it targets humans and coding agents equally. It is not a chat client. There is no conversational mode, no model selection and no synthesized answer.

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Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation

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Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEOBusiness live – latest updatesThe boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”.Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, said the “unprecedented” attack on his business required a similar

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AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen

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The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological designAs artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the biological sciences, it is pushing the future of biology in two opposing directions. AI can help bad actors generate recipes for biological weapons with just a

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What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

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The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answersThe AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the

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