1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (289+ words) Three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google is back with Gemini 3.8 Flash. The budget model is supposed to beat its predecessor by a wide margin in coding. According to Google's own numbers, Gemini 3.8 Flash hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (374+ words) Google is adding agent-based video analysis to several Gemini models. Instead of scanning a video frame by frame at a fixed rate, the model hunts for relevant sections on its own, which Google says cuts token usage and costs by…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (392+ words) AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of running code, the system generates the user interface frame by frame as you interact with it. Runway lists several use…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (544+ words) Researchers at Google Research have introduced WikiSkill, a framework that pairs AI agents with a persistent knowledge base. Instead of throwing away what the agent learned after each run, the system collects knowledge about failures and successes in a wiki-like…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) the-decoder.com IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0 IBM has released its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes. Trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens, the models support context windows up to 512,000 tokens and can…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (610+ words) An AI model can boost its safety score just by blocking more requests across the board. A new study exposes this tradeoff and offers a method to catch models that act more cautiously during tests than they do in everyday…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (176+ words) the-decoder.com LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable LLMs could theoretically write as diversely as humans, but they don't. Post-training and safety guardrails keep their text detectable, argues Bradley Emi, CTO of AI text…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) AI researcher Richard Sutton pushes back against a core strategy at the leading AI labs. Synthetic data won't solve the scaling problem for large language models, he says, and blames the sheer complexity of the world. In a recent conversation,…...