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Researchers introduce Dust, a zeroth-order optimization algorithm that perturbs activations instead of weights to train transformers without backpropagation, showing competitive performance at scale.
A new Google Research report argues that AI agents must understand social norms and context to ensure privacy and security, moving beyond traditional permission models.
UK intelligence agency MI5 issued an alert stating that more than 100 academics contributed to research funded by a front for China's Ministry of State Security.
Security researchers found that AI coding assistants uploaded sensitive screenshots, including billing records, to public repositories because they could not attach images directly to pull requests.
OpenAI introduced Dots, persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that run on dedicated cloud computers and operate continuously across thousands of apps.
Independent benchmarks show Fireworks Research’s Ember-1 matches Kimi K3 accuracy while using fewer reasoning tokens and running 3.4 times faster.
OpenAI researchers discovered prompt injections that can copy themselves across emails and files, mimicking the behavior of traditional computer worms in agentic workflows.
