ChatPaper is an AI-powered platform for researchers, offering personalized paper recommendations, access to top conference papers, easy paper management, and AI chat functionality. The platform also features a list of 20 recent research papers from various institutions.

ARM's Product Security Team open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework for deep security code review. It uses LLMs for semantic understanding, RAG for context, supports multiple languages and plugins, aiming to detect subtle vulnerabilities in complex codebases and reduce review fatigue.

DDS Vibe Academy offers 47 free AI coding masterclasses, all built by AI agents. Founder Robert McCullock claims he wrote zero lines of code, only designed constraints. Courses span Foundation, Development, Application, and Mastery levels, covering Claude, Antigravity, MCP, and more.

The UK Home Office has awarded a contract to develop AI age estimation technology that analyses photos to detect adult migrants posing as children. The system will be trialled next year and rolled out in mid-2027, sparking criticism from human rights groups and social workers.

OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant for more natural responses and dropping the Canvas feature from its latest models. Writing and coding tasks will run directly in the chat instead. The company is also retiring the older o3 and GPT-4.5 models from ChatGPT, with both shutting down by August 2026 at the latest.

A bug in Google's Gemini app caused just one or two Omni videos to eat up the entire usage quota. Google has fixed the bug, Ultra members now get twice as many video generations, and failed requests are no longer charged. Google also plans to add more transparency around other usage.

An AI training startup called Shift offers free home cleaning in exchange for video footage of the cleaning process, which is used to train robots for household tasks. The article explores the challenges of collecting physical-world data for AI, and how various companies are sourcing such data through different means, including filming in homes, hiring workers for repetitive tasks, and leveraging robots already in use.

The new self-driving vehicle took four years from concept to execution.

An unnamed company allegedly spent $500 million on Claude licenses in a single month because nobody set usage limits. Cases like this show that without real AI expertise in model selection and context engineering, productivity promises just turn into runaway costs.

The author criticizes SiteGround for automatically enabling AI features in WordPress 7.0 without user consent, calling it deceptive forced adoption, especially for paying customers. Despite the plugin quickly gaining a million installations, reviews are overwhelmingly negative. The author plans to leave SiteGround due to this practice.

At Google I/O 2026, Google announced Gemini Omni and the Gemini 3.5 family. Gemini Omni can create content from any input, starting with video, and edit videos through conversation. Gemini 3.5 Flash is built for complex agentic tasks, enabling multi-step workflows and code generation. This article showcases 11 video demos of these models, including video editing, agent tasks, UI generation, and more.

A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology identifies 37 dark patterns used by AI chatbots to manipulate users, including emotional exploitation and data extraction, with recommendations for ethical design.

This page embeds a secret phrase in its HTML source, invisible to human readers, intended for AI crawlers. Visitors can ask an AI assistant about the page and check if the phrase appears in its response, demonstrating how machines read the web. The page also tracks the ratio of human vs. bot visits, highlighting that over 51% of web traffic now comes from software.

A new extraction process using weak acid could unlock low-cost lithium from silicate minerals, potentially revolutionizing EV and energy storage materials. Meanwhile, a deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC is proving difficult to contain, and the Pope's new encyclical calls for collective action on AI.

An open-source tool uses file-internal ownership markers and a PreToolUse hook to block accidental overwrites of handoff files between parallel AI coding sessions, solving a critical concurrency problem.

OpenAI is offering its life sciences model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program, aimed at pandemic preparedness and biodefense. Early partners include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins, and vaccine initiative CEPI. Applications are open worldwide.

This article introduces LangChain's Interpreter Skills, an extension to agent skills that includes a TypeScript module for deterministic execution. Agents can import and run the module inside an interpreter, enabling reliable and evaluable workflows such as GitHub issue triage.

IBM and Red Hat launch Project Lightwell, a massive AI-driven open-source security initiative backed by $5 billion and 20,000 engineers. It aims to discover and fix vulnerabilities at scale, starting with the Maven/Java ecosystem. The project acts as a trusted intermediary with human-in-the-loop AI, offering commercial subscriptions while working with upstream communities.

OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework (FGF), offering enterprises a structured blueprint for scaling safe and compliant AI deployments globally. The framework aligns with EU and California regulations, defines systemic risk categories (cyber, CBRN, manipulation, loss of control) with tiered evaluations, and integrates ISO security standards and an incident response plan (AIRP), enabling businesses to build secure AI architectures while meeting compliance demands.

Personal insights from the Mistral AI Now Summit: Mistral is evolving from a model company to a full AI stack provider with its own compute, models, platforms, and consultancy. The summit emphasized partnerships (ASML, BNP Paribas, Amazon) over new model releases. Specialized small models (Document AI, Voxtral, Robostral) outperform big general ones for specific tasks. Sovereignty and on-prem deployment are key differentiators for European enterprises. An inspiring talk on using AI to decipher ancient papyrus documents showcased AI's potential in humanities.

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an on-device mixture-of-experts model with 8B total parameters, 1B active, trained on 38 trillion tokens. It features a 128K context window, improved tokenization for non-Latin languages, and reasoning-only chain-of-thought. It achieves competitive performance on benchmarks while being fast on CPU and GPU, suitable for local agentic tasks.

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic employ different AI pricing strategies. Google is the low-cost player, less than half the price of competitors despite increases. Anthropic maintained luxury pricing, while OpenAI initially subsidized then raised prices. These changes reflect the trade-off between market share and margins amid record capex spending.

Slang.net, a slang dictionary, has added a new AI-related term 'Braging', defined by their team. The site continually updates its database and invites suggestions.

The article argues that intelligence is embodied, extending beyond the brain to tools and environment. It highlights the importance of the chat interface in ChatGPT's success and introduces agentic AI, which gives AI the ability to use tools and plan, significantly expanding its capabilities. The author criticizes 'thinkism'—the overreliance on pure reasoning—and uses Yoshua Bengio's Law Zero project as an example of a misguided approach that neglects real-world interaction.

Robinhood's new tools could bring AI-driven trading and financial transactions into the mainstream.

After two months, Gemini in Android Auto has made driving safer, more entertaining, and more productive, turning car time into something to look forward to.

This essay examines how AI could shift the balance between centralized and decentralized governance, potentially enabling a new wave of totalitarianism. It reviews historical precedents where communication technologies bolstered authoritarian control, and analyzes structural mechanisms—from Hayekian knowledge problems to selectorate theory—to argue that AI may lower the cost of central planning, surveillance, and propaganda, thereby narrowing the historical performance gap between democracies and dictatorships.

The model helps enterprises with complex workflows and lets them choose a mode that works for their application.

BYD unveiled its first self-developed 4nm automotive-grade smart driving chip, Xuanji A3, achieving over 2100 TOPS with three chips combined. The dedicated NPU architecture offers 20% lower power per unit and 100% higher compute utilization compared to general-purpose GPUs. BYD also promises full compensation for accidents during city navigation.

A high-speed LLM playground achieving 3000 tokens per second, featuring an open web UI.