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440 stories · page 28 of 49Realistic AI renderings of buildings now need a label
Article 50 came into force on August 2 and lawyers say realistic AI visualisations of unbuilt buildings fall under the deepfake definition. Fines reach 15 million euro or 3 per cent of annual turnover.
Read →A horned centaur robot built so it cannot fit through a human door
California's Satyress showed Threehalves: a two-metre teleoperated robot with four legs and tools instead of hands, for work that kills people. Its safety is not in the software but in the geometry.
Read →Qwen released 27 billion under Apache 2.0, with a 2.4 trillion giant next to it
On 3 August we wrote that Alibaba was showing Qwen3.8-Max and promising its weights the following week. The promise has been kept: on 8 August the giant goes up for download, and three days before it, a small 27 billion model under Apache 2.0.
Read →MiniMax released a model that writes a full five-minute song, and handed out the weights
Not a thirty-second clip, but a song with a beginning, a middle and an end that holds its theme all the way through. Underneath sit two language models on different levels, and the big one started life as Qwen3-8B.
Read →Anthropic touched the guard, not the model - and biological refusals fell by about 85%
Since 7 August, Fable 5 answers health and study questions far more often. The change isn't in the model itself, but in the rules of the classifier that decides what counts as dual-use. Virology, toxicology and molecular design stay closed.
Read →One public issue could reach a workflow's secrets - in Claude Code and Gemini CLI alike
At Black Hat, researchers walked through the chain: a stranger with no permissions opens an issue in a public repo, and the coding agent walks tokens and keys out the door. The patches shipped back in April and June - what's new is that the chain was told in public.
Read →Cloudflare shipped a browser just for agents - cheaper, but slower
Kitesurf isn't Chromium. It's built from open parts of Firefox and Servo, and runs straight on the workers of Cloudflare. By their measurements it eats up to seven times less memory - the price is a response about twice as slow.
Read →A cyclone model gained a full day's lead at once - and shipped open source
WeatherNext predicts a storm's path, strength and wind extent up to 15 days ahead. Per the Nature paper, it gives an average of a day or more lead over the leading operational models. One forecast computes in under a minute on a single chip.
Read →Free ChatGPT moves to a stronger model, with unlimited text chat
From 6 August, paid users get a retuned model with a slider for how deep it thinks. Free users switch to GPT-5.6 Luna by default this week, and get unlimited text conversations from next week. Files and images stay capped.
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