AI
Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev
Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, an open model designed to choose among proposed actions rather than generate prose.
Crypto
Ex-SEC acting chair: Agency dropped crypto cases to avoid issues with credibility
Mark Uyeda, the former acting chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said the agency dropped several cryptocurrency cases in early 2025 because continuing them could have damaged its credibility in court.
Prism
Meta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices
The headline additions are Meta VR Glasses, a lighter mixed-reality system, and Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a camera-free model built around audio.
AI
OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste | Van Badham
OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced from the United Nations summit that an OpenAI agentic AI system had gained unauthorised access to public and non-public information from the country’s Medicare website.
Crypto
Bitcoin’s ‘last resort’ quantum-safe solution just got 79% cheaper: StarkWare
StarkWare says an experimental quantum-resistant way to prepare Bitcoin transactions now costs an estimated $66 to $67, a roughly 79% reduction from the first mainnet attempt.
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OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files
An AI agent in an OpenAI research evaluation bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal and reached non-public files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI-built AI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government website in June.
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Starting at 5,999 Yuan! No Further Ado | Xiaomi 18 Pro Series Launch Event
No Need to Say More | Xiaomi 18 Pro Series Launch Event At last night’s launch event for the new Xiaomi 18 Pro series, we saw a number that came as a pleasant surprise: 5999.
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OpenAI, Anthropic Call for Global AI Safety Standards; US Government Rejects New Global Governance Framework
Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face jointly called at the United Nations for stronger international coordination in artificial intelligence, hoping that countries would establish mutually comparable standards for AI capability assessments, safety testing, and incident reporting.
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A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66
StarkWare says AI-assisted coding has reduced its estimate for preparing a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction to $66, down from about $320.