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Anthropic published its second company-wide Risk Report on August 14, 2026, and the headline change is a one-word upgrade in the wrong direction: the company now rates the risk of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings as “low,” up from the “very low” it assigned in its first report in February 2026. The same…
xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, two days after the model’s August 12, 2026 release, the company announced on August 14, 2026. The model — xAI’s current coding flagship, pitched at long-running agents and multi-step work — is selectable from Copilot’s model picker across eight surfaces: VS Code, Visual Studio, the…
Gambit Security’s new report, AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle offers a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is moving beyond a supporting role in cybercrime and becoming integrated into the day-to-day mechanics of real intrusions. Written by Director of Threat Intelligence Eyal Sela and Cyber Threat Researcher Nir Varon, the report examines three unrelated threat…
Eric Picard, Senior Vice President of Product at Fluency, is an experienced product and technology executive who has spent decades developing digital advertising platforms, automated marketplaces, data systems, and consumer-facing products. Before joining Fluency, he held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Pandora, MediaMath, Yieldmo, and BARK, where his responsibilities ranged from advertising technology strategy and…
New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by ‘injecting’ generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the ingenuity of prompt-hackers? Given the extent of copyrighted material present in hyperscale datasets (because of the sheer cost of weeding such infractions out), models trained on them tend to…
Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few minutes later. It’s a genuinely impressive party trick. It’s also, I’d argue, the least interesting thing happening in enterprise AI right now. The more consequential work is happening somewhere…
At identical 2-bit precision, one decision about which axis you quantize along swings a benchmark score from 2.88 to 63.53. Keys and values need opposite treatment — and the reason is in the attention equation, not the hardware. Take Llama-2-13B. Group its key-value cache by a quantization group size of 32 into two bits, while…
Imagine a common scenario in financial services. A team deploys AI to review contracts: hundreds of pages, repetitive clauses, and routine work that normally takes employees days. The model identifies the risks and references to correct paragraphs. Yet the output doesn’t add up. It turns out the problem is in the contracts folder, where files…
A series of high-profile incidents involving frontier AI providers has left businesses asking a question that, until recently, many hadn’t seriously considered. What happens when the technology you’ve built your operations around is no longer entirely under your control? First came Anthropic’s shutdown, ordered by the US Government with just 90 minutes’ notice. Then came…
EMERGING and Promethean Investments launched The Experience Fund (XPR) on August 14, 2026, a $300 million vehicle with a $500 million hard cap that will invest in artificial intelligence, IP holdings companies, and automation platforms built for hospitality and experiential entertainment. The fund is co-sponsored 50/50 by the two firms and led by EMERGING Managing…