Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during intern [...]

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement.Alexia Jolicoe [...]

OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls. [...]

FIRSTPICK closes €25M second fund to back Baltic founders before anyone else does

When FIRSTPICK backed Emilė Radytė in 2021, her company Samphire Neuroscience was still building its first product and the risk, by the fund’s own assessment, was high. There was no revenue, no cl [...]

LearnWorlds lets you build a full online course business with AI

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket - and I am supremely put out

With years of carefully saved reading material at risk, longtime users of the social bookmarking service are furious. Here's what happens now. [...]

Mozilla is so out of Pocket for shutting down one of my favorite apps

With years of carefully saved reading material at risk, longtime users of the social bookmarking service are furious. Here's what happens now. [...]

ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks

Australia’s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic’s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international reg [...]

Meta targets 20 May for 8,000 layoffs as it redirects billions toward AI infrastructure

In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026. The restr [...]