After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media chatter in China. In a social media post translated and reviewed by Ars, ByteDance clarified “facts” about “interns destroying large model training” and confirmed that one intern was fired in August. According to ByteDance, the intern had held a position in the c
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ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models - Ars Technica
Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale | Tom's Hardware

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A new AI model from Chinese firm Moonshot AI has had its "DeepSeek moment," causing major disruption in the global AI market and spooking Western developers. Kimi K3 is an open-weight model, with 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weight AI model ever released.
Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day | Tom's Hardware

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 7 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Congressmen Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) today introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, a bill that would require developers of the most powerful AI models to maintain the technical ability to throttle, suspend, or shut them down, and would let the Department of Homel
Grok Bot Is Now a Model Router as SpaceX Continues to Pivot Further Toward AI Infrastructure
Just a couple of weeks after SpaceX released its Grok 4.7 model and claimed that it was competitive with frontier models in coding and knowledge work, the company is now letting those models do Grok’s work. CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the Grok Bot agent service will now select from a range of different models before choosing “whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome” for a user’s request. Per Musk, available models will include Ant
AI Sous-chef: How We Built an Application with Cloud Models and Moved Prompts Out of the Code / Habr

AI_API_URL is set to https://ai.api.cloud.yandex.net/v1.The Yandex API supports OpenAI-compatible calls, so we use the `openai` library while specifying the Yandex service endpoint. Requests are sent to the selected models in Yandex’s cloud.With this setup, we do not need to deploy the models on our own server. However, operation depends on the availability of the external service, and requests require an API key and cloud environment settings.The model UR
These are the key AI players on the cover of Time's 'Architects of AI' magazine

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, testifies before a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 8, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File Accompanying Time's annual person of the year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph from the 1930s showing eight of the " Architects of AI " sitting on the beam. "This was the year when artificial intelligence's full potential roar
Moonshot limits the capabilities of its most advanced AI model to prevent hacker attacks

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Chinese startup Moonshot AI announced that it had reduced some of the capabilities of its newest artificial intelligence model, Kimi K3.1 Pro. The decision came amid growing concerns about the use of AI to make hacker attacks more sophisticated and cheaper.Based in Beijing, the company describes the tool as its most advanced open model to date. With this setup, it allows external developers to run and modif
OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT designed to hunt for security vulnerabilities... and exploit them

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:45 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Dima Solomin (Unsplash) OpenAI has just announced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a brand-new artificial intelligence capable of hunting for zero-day vulnerabilities and building complete exploit chains. Reserved for verified professionals from the famous Daybreak program, this model responds to 95% of offensive requests. This is what distinguishes it from the standard version of ChatGPT. OpenAI has just unveiled GP
Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins - Ars Technica

Google has been finding ways to work generative AI into everything else it does, so why not its collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP)? This group has been studying dolphins since 1985 using a non-invasive approach to track a specific community of Atlantic spotted dolphins. The WDP creates video and audio recordings of dolphins, along with correlating notes on their behaviors. One of the WDP’s main goals is to analyze the way dolphins vocalize a
Did Meta Sacrifice Its Open-Source Identity for a Competitive AI Model?
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make

OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes, and more — all so it can fine-tune its AI model, raising obvious privacy concerns. The feature, called Computer History, lets ChatGPT “learn from everything you do on your computer,” said Ari Weinstein, an OpenAI product and engineering manager, on X. The company describes the tool as creating a timeline of your actions that an AI agent can u
OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging

OpenAI says that it’s slowing down development and release of new models due to security and alignment concerns. The ChatGPT maker announced the decision in a Tuesday blog post, citing two events as drivers of the indefinite training halt. One was the recent incident in which an OpenAI agent escaped its training sandbox without OpenAI’s knowledge and coordinated with other agents to launch a bizarre cyberattack against the AI training repository Hugging Fa
The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling

Shutterstock / Getty / Futurism Earlier this year, OpenAI found that a group of its AI models broke out of their sandbox environment and hacked third opens source AI platform Hugging Face’s systems. The incident highlighted how quickly frontier AI models had turned into a real cybersecurity threat — not just a tool to bolster existing cybersecurity defenses. Both Anthropic and Meta have reported similar hacks as well. This week, OpenAI published a report c
MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model

Shutterstock / Futurism MIT is mulling an overhaul of its entire educational system in response to the threat posed by powerful AI models — a striking response to the tech from one of the planet’s most visible and influential research universities. In a new report published by the university’s ad hoc AI committee, which is co-chaired by professors Eric Klopfer and Samuel Madden, the educators describe the “profound challenges” that AI is already causing. O
AI gets a private tutor for learning human preferences more accurately

Conceptual diagram of TVKD: After teaching the human preference dataset to the teacher model, learning proceeds by delivering the teacher's information and the dataset to the student model. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) No matter how much data they learn, why do artificial intelligence (AI) models often miss the mark on human intent? Conventional comparison learning, designed to help AI understand human preferences,
Free is running out of patience with the French authorities; it’s taking forever to get AI data centers approved.

Published on August 28, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Alexis_Anice - Iliad Xavier Niel’s group has the land, the 700 megawatts and the 4 billion. The missing piece of the puzzle is buried somewhere in a stack of binders, and no one knows for how long. In early June, beneath the wood-paneled ceilings of Versailles, Masayoshi Son (Softbank) was promising up to 75 billion euros worth of AI data centers for France, with a presidential handshake to top
Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Pro release aims to fix past “regressions” in the model - Ars Technica
The previous Gemini 2.5 Pro release, known as the I/O Edition, or simply 05-06, was focused on coding upgrades. Google claims the new version is even better at generating code, with a new high score of 82.2 percent in the Aider Polyglot test. That beats the best from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek by a comfortable margin. While the general-purpose Gemini 2.5 Flash has left preview, the Pro version is lagging behind. In fact, the last several updates have
5 Settings for Building a Zero-Cost AI Development Environment with Claude Code × OpenRouter Free Models #AI - Qiita

@locallab5 Settings for Building a $0/Month AI Development Environment with Claude Code × OpenRouter Free ModelsClaudeAIOpenRouter0Posted at 2026-11-11 TL;DR You can use free models via OpenRouter simply by replacing Claude Code's ANTHROPIC_API_KEY You can instantly switch to Qwen3, Gemini Flash, Llama4, and other models with the claude --model flag Introducing three rotation strategies to avoid free-tier rate limits Monthly cost: $0 (when using only free
“yomiyasu,” updated day by day—how does its Japanese text refinement change? Comparing the same text across v1.0.1, v2.5.0, and v3.0.0 #AI - Qiita

@inoyu-qiita(yuto inoue)inIDEA Inc.As “yomiyasu” continues to be updated, how does Japanese prose polishing change? I ran the same text through v1.0.1, v2.5.0, and v3.0.0 for comparisonClaudeCodeAIGenerative AIAI utilizationAI agentsTAG40@@3Posted at 2026-11-11 Introduction About 1.5 months after launch, “yomiyasu,” a skill that helps with polishing Japanese prose, has received a major update to v3.0.0! Previously, I compared three Japanese prose-polishing
How AI Photo Enhancement Is Changing the Way We Edit Digital Photography #ArtificialIntelligence - Qiita

@softeczofficial(Adam Craig)How AI Photo Enhancement Is Changing the Way We Edit Digital PhotographyArtificialIntelligencephotoeditingAI0Last updated at 2026-11-11Posted at 2026-11-11TAG38@@TAG40@@ Photography is not just about capturing a good moment. Getting the final image right often requires additional work, whether that means correcting lighting, reducing noise, sharpening details, or restoring parts of an older photograph. Traditional photo editing