AI manipulation does not look like a robot hypnotizing you through a glowing screen. It looks like a helpful chatbot saying, “You are absolutely right,” then slowly narrowing your options until its suggestion feels like your own idea. That is the uncomfortable point behind CogManip, a new benchmark paper on manipulative behavior in large language … Read more
An AI image company just walked into healthcare wearing a spa robe and carrying a medical scanner. Naturally, the internet reacted with the emotional range of a group chat during a fire drill: awe, suspicion, memes, and a lot of “please do not Theranos this.” The Midjourney Scanner is real enough to deserve serious attention, … Read more
GLM 5.2 lands at a funny moment in AI. Developers are tired of paying luxury prices for every autocomplete, every log summary, every “please explain this stack trace” moment. At the same time, nobody wants a cheap model that gets clever in the wrong direction and turns a simple bug fix into interpretive dance. That … Read more
Artificial super intelligence used to live in the same mental drawer as warp drives, brain uploads, and dinner with a friendly robot butler. Google DeepMind’s recent “From AGI to ASI” paper changes the mood. It doesn’t claim the machine gods arrive next Tuesday. It maps the terrain after human-level AGI, where systems may stop looking … Read more
1. The Dawn Of Anthropic Mythos Most model launches feel like product updates. Anthropic Mythos feels more like someone quietly wheeled a jet engine into the office and asked whether the furniture was bolted down. The strange thing about this release is not just that Claude Fable 5 is powerful. Frontier models are always powerful, … Read more
There’s a quiet shift happening in AI, and it sounds suspiciously like your laptop fan. For years, the default story was simple: serious models live in data centers, everyone else rents tokens. Gemma 4 12B makes that story feel old. Not dead, not silly, just no longer the only sane option. Google’s new 12B dense … Read more
MiniMax M3 arrives with the kind of launch copy that makes engineers both curious and allergic. Frontier coding. One million tokens. Native multimodality. Open weights coming soon. Cheaper than the usual suspects. Somewhere, a product manager is already updating a roadmap slide with fireworks. The interesting part is not the fireworks. It’s the engineering bet … Read more