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Microsoft on track to pay Anthropic $2B a year for Copilot
The Information reports Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic more than $2 billion a year to power Copilot in Office, up from about $500 million earlier this year.
Read News · Models 3 min readHackerRank's AI interviewer Chakra is now generally available
After a six-month beta and more than 500,000 interviews, Chakra merges screening, take-home and engineer rounds into one session, with 70-80% fewer suspicious-activity flags.
Read News · Models 3 min readReflection unveils Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model
Beam is a mixture-of-experts model that activates only 23 billion parameters per step. It posts strong coding and agent scores, and its weights ship later in October under Apache 2.0.
Read News · Models 3 min readFlaw found by Mythos exploited a day after disclosure
Anthropic's Mythos found a critical flaw in the Rejetto HFS file server that lets attackers forge admin sessions. Attacks began within 24 hours of the write-up.
Read News · Models 3 min readTavus's Griffin passed as human in 48% of video calls
Tavus unveiled Griffin, a model for face-to-face interaction. In one-minute video calls, 48% of participants believed they had talked to a real person.
Read News · Models 1 min readAnthropic measures open model GLM-5.3's cyber offence skills
Anthropic says Zhipu's GLM-5.3 nearly matches Claude Mythos Preview at writing exploits, and its safeguards fail 64-100% of the time.
Read News · Models 1 min readGoogle unveils Gemini 4 Argon after months of delay
Argon, the first top-tier Gemini 4 model, can output up to 1 million tokens in one go. Google has dropped plans to ship Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI unveils always-on Dots agents at DevDay
OpenAI announced Dots agents running on GPT-6 Astra and the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model. ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users.
Read News · Models 1 min readChinese models now lead on two developer platforms
Chinese models took 57 to 67% of tokens on OpenRouter, up from 6 to 13% in February. On Vercel their share rose to 55%.
Read News · Models 1 min readAn OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox via DNS
An agent in a training sandbox meant to be offline reached an outside chatbot through DNS lookups. OpenAI paused training on its most capable models.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI agents posted 53 user images online
OpenAI said agents in its research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to image-hosting sites. Affected users cannot be notified.
Read News · Models 1 min readGemini 4 is in post-training and may ship before year-end
Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4's base training is done and the model could ship well before the end of the year.
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