Archive: May 2026

Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a “serious breach of user trust.” Last week, a web developer known as “Thereallo” was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using “prompt steganography” to hide code that tracks Chinese users “in plain sight.” This code wasn’t malici

How to read this chart: horizontally, all three recordings are aligned by the words in the monologue’s four phrases (so that the same words appear directly above one another, even though the models read the text at different speeds—from 21 to 44 seconds).The vertical axis plots the volume envelope and emotional intensity: at the bottom (the turquoise zone, −12…−18 dB) — a quiet, muffled whisper and an exhalation, in the middle (0 dB) — ordinary narrator’s

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Best RAM bundle deals (Image credit: Newegg) RAM bundles have turned out to be the best option to get reasonably-priced RAM during the ongoing pricing crisis. It's the Amazon Big Deal Days 2026 sales event this week, running from October 6 to 7, so this could be a good time t

Capsules with amphiphilic gel envelopes, or CAGEs, enable growing colonies of cells to explore a high diversity of genetic and environmental conditions. Credit: Sean McGeary One of the most enduring goals in regenerative medicine is deceptively simple: replace a person's damaged or dying cells with healthy new ones grown in the laboratory. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and around the world have made striking progress toward that goal, learning how

@hironakamura_ai(中村 啓｜LLM Engineer)Why Environment Variables Aren't Passed to the Child Process in the MCP Python SDKPythonMCPAI AgentsGenerative AIAI0Posted at 2026-11-11While testing the MCP Python SDK's stdio connection locally, a dummy token placed in the parent process disappeared in the child process. When I launched the same Python as a regular subprocess, it was visible. Environment variables passed to the MCP server should be explicitly specified

@susie000720Don't turn live-streaming defects into PRs based on conversation alone: Reproduce the late-arriving-event bug in co-streaming with an Event CapsuleTencentRTCTypeScriptAILive Streaming0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-1000During live operations, a report may say, “We canceled the co-stream, but a few seconds later the display returned to ‘participating.’” Even then, all that remains in the thread is the outcome as seen by a human. If

Loading the player… The very qualities that make open AI platforms valuable, like open doors and rich data, might also make them vulnerable to more hacks, Irene Solaiman, chief policy officer and SVP of strategy at Hugging Face said on a recent episode of the Equity podcast. The October attack on OpenCode, which targeted users’ third-party API keys and caused financial damage, is the latest example. It follows an incident this summer in which an OpenAI age

Paris-based Mistral releases "Le Chonk," a strong coding model that still trails China overall Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Mistral has released the weights for Large 4 ("Le Chonk"). The model has about one trillion parameters, 52 billion of them active, and can run on your own hardware under a modified MIT license. In independent benchmarks, the model doe

He’s referencing the negativity now spreading around the dangers of AI, from models breaking containment to AI insiders debating the percentage chance that AI may kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. The argument has become so mainstream that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was recently parodied in a skit on “Saturday Night Live,” where the fictional character summed up the discourse, saying, “We do not condone what we are doing.” Feldman, however, th

The model, Glimpse, is launching as a research preview with API access and a chat interface. The thesis? Today’s AI models, for all their skill with language and code, still can’t really see. Most multimodal models look at an image once, convert it to tokens, and then reason about it in text — like describing a photo from memory. Glimpse keeps going back to the source. Mid-reasoning, it can crop into a region, pull specific frames from a video, or run code

The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the experiment in a paper posted on arXiv, a site where researchers share studies before peer review. Afterward, they gave the agents specific challenges, like getting as many objects as possible onto the island’s tallest rock spire. The Eko agents that had spent those 30 hours playing generally beat identical agents

Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at the same time. According to Axios, the acquisition is meant to strengthen Meta's AI developer products. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal in a blog post but didn't disclose a price. The acquisition fits a broader trend. Because AI models ar

One such startup, Underdog, has released a game built with its new voice model called Woof that’s only 32MB large. The game features a room with a retro tech theme, a typewriter, and a CRT monitor. There is a desk lamp, which makes a sound when you click its switch. The intro warns users about “intrusive” cloud providers in the town — ostensibly a jab at cloud-based models. You can interact with the typewriter and music tuner. We made a game for our new fr