Heretic Turns Guardrails Into Forks; AI Security Adds Another Alert Stream; Transformer Doubt Goes Public
The sharpest story today is Heretic, because it turns model safety from a lab policy into a forkable artifact. Elsewhere,…
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Open Document AI Gets Cheaper; Chrome Rewrites Partial Page Updates; IBM Plans a Quantum Foundry Spinout; MySQL Buries a 20 Year Bug
Open model document extraction is the clearest practical AI story of the day. NuExtract3 puts that workload on a 4B,…
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llama.cpp Becomes a Local Agent Host; Hidden Audio Still Threatens Voice Agents; Dutch Raid Hits Cybercrime Plumbing
llama.cpp tools are the clearest story today. A runtime that millions of local-model users treat as plumbing now documents built-in…
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Microsoft AI Costs Hit Budget Walls; Anthropic Says AI Is Finding Real Bugs; Vibe Coding Creates Cleanup Work
The sharpest signal today is that AI cost math is getting less theoretical. Microsoft AI cost problem discussions, bug-finding claims…
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TikTok served more anti-Democratic videos in US election
A Nature paper published on 6 May found that TikTok’s recommendation system served an uneven mix of 2024 US election…
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DeepSeek Tests Open Model Economics; Foreign Coauthors
Today’s through-line is control. DeepSeek is reportedly trying to prove that open models and serious capital can coexist, while NIH,…
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GitHub says poisoned VS Code extension exposed 3,800 repos
GitHub said on 20 May that a compromised employee device running a poisoned VS Code extension led to the exfiltration…
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MRNA adjuvant boosts T-cell responses in mice
MIT- and Harvard-linked researchers reported on 13 May that an mRNA-encoded adjuvant built from NIK and IRF8 boosted T-cell responses…
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Ontario audit finds AI scribes making clinical errors
Ontario’s Auditor General found this month that AI note-taking systems approved for doctors were routinely getting basic clinical facts wrong,…
