Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology.
While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have launched “Deep Research” or “Deep Researcher” AI…
OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking…
Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports
July 31, 2025
Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have.
IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals that breaches involving employees’ unauthorized use of AI tools cost organizations…
‘Subliminal learning’: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits
July 31, 2025
A new study by Anthropic shows that language models might learn hidden characteristics during distillation, a popular method for fine-tuning models for special tasks. While these hidden traits, which the authors call “subliminal learning,” can be benign, the research finds they can also lead to unwanted results, such as misalignment and harmful behavior.
What is subliminal…
As enterprises increasingly turn to AI models to ensure their applications function well and are reliable, the gaps between model-led evaluations and human evaluations have only become clearer.
To combat this, LangChain added Align Evals to LangSmith, a way to bridge the…
As demand for large-scale AI deployment skyrockets, the lesser-known, private chip startup Positron is positioning itself as a direct challenger to market leader Nvidia by offering dedicated, energy-efficient, memory-optimized inference chips aimed at relieving the…
Acree opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’
July 30, 2025
Arcee.ai, a startup focused on developing small AI models for commercial and enterprise use, is opening up its own AFM-4.5B model for limited free usage by small companies — posting the weights on Hugging Face and allowing enterprises that make less than $1.75 million in annual revenue to use it without charge under a custom “Acree Model License.“
Designed for real-world enterprise use, the…
AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
July 30, 2025
Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate what its founders describe as a fundamental shift from human-versus-human to…
New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples
July 29, 2025
Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all while being significantly smaller and more data-efficient.
The architecture…
Anthropic announced today it would introduce weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, claiming that some users have been running Claude 24/7, with the majority of usage centered around its Claude Code product.
Overall weekly limits will begin on August 28 and will be in conjunction with the current 5-hour limits. Anthropic said the throttling will only affect 5% of its total users.
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