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Lenovo's Q1 revenue jumps 43% on AI-driven demand

Lenovo's Q1 revenue jumps 43% on AI-driven demand Lenovo reported first-quarter revenue of $26.9 billion, marking a 43% year-on-year increase and surpassing the $22.3 billion estimate. The PC maker attributed the growth to strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and a resilient personal-computer business, alongside benefits from a global memory chip shortage. AI-related revenue specifically rose 60% year-on-year to reach $9.3 billion, highlighting the accelerating contribution

Congress is running on chatbots, with little oversight

Lawmakers and staffers use ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to draft speeches and mail, with thin guardrails.

Alibaba's Qwen becomes the world's most-downloaded open AI model family

A 150M model hits 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 for $0.0007 a task

Pathway's 150M-parameter BDH-CQ scores 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.0007 a task, about 57x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Luna (Low).

Grok 4.6 lands in GitHub Copilot across eight coding surfaces

AI is now embedded across the cyber intrusion lifecycle

A new threat-intelligence report says AI is no longer just a tool attackers use to write malware. According to Gambit Security's "AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle," large language models are now folded into the day-to-day mechanics of real intrusions, helping operators adapt as they move through compromised networks. The report, written by Gambit Director of Threat Intelligence Eyal Sela and researcher Nir Varon, examines three unrelated threat actors. Across the cases, the models built script

Alibaba open-weights Qwen 3.8 with a 27B model that tops its bigger predecessor

Alibaba's Qwen team published the open weights for Qwen3.8 on Thursday, releasing the models under the Apache 2.0 license. The move puts a capable new open model directly into the hands of researchers and companies that want to fine-tune and self-host it. The centerpiece is Qwen3.8-27B, a 27 billion parameter multimodal dense model. Qwen says it outperforms the larger Qwen3.7-Plus on coding and office tasks, a notable result for a model less than a tenth the size of some frontier flagships. The

Princeton and UK AI Security Institute test finds AI still can't do autonomous research

Anthropic and OpenAI have promoted their models as able to speed up, and eventually run, AI research on their own. A new experiment from Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute suggests the research judgment behind that claim is not there yet. The team built a method they call Shadow Evaluation. An agent receives the central research question from an unpublished paper, then the paper's original authors, who spent months on it, review the result as conference reviewers would. Because the pape

OpenAI's Computer History turns your Mac activity into a searchable ChatGPT memory

OpenAI has started rolling out Computer History, a macOS feature that records a user's interactions across apps and websites and turns them into a searchable timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use as context. Unlike the earlier Chronicle research preview, which captured screenshots, Computer History logs interaction events: clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts, and app switches, read through macOS accessibility. OpenAI says it does not capture screenshots, screen recordings, microphone input

French startup Kog says smarter software can pull 30x faster inference out of stock GPUs

The race for faster AI inference has pushed labs toward custom silicon, but a French startup argues the cheapest speedup is already sitting in servers companies bought. Kog says it can reach roughly thirty times faster LLM inference on standard data-center GPUs using software alone. Kog demonstrated three thousand tokens per second per request on AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200 GPUs in May, running a small two-billion-parameter model it has since open-sourced as Laneformer 2B. Chief executive Gael D

OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second

OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second OpenAI has opened a preview of "Ultrafast" mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model. The mode streams up to 750 output tokens per second, which OpenAI frames as roughly 14 times the speed of the standard API, by running inference on Cerebras hardware. Cerebras and OpenAI signed a ten billion dollar partnership earlier this year, and Ultrafast is the first major use of that capacity. Access is limited for now to

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, halves the cost of its coding workhorse

Google's new Flash model scores higher on coding benchmarks and costs half its standard rate, at least through the end of 2026.

Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, has released GLM-5.3, an update the company says keeps the same 700-billion-parameter base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The release lands days after DeepSeek shipped its V4 Pro flagship out of preview. Stronger coding through environment scaling GLM-5.3 pushes post-training toward tasks that resemble real units of expert work rather than coding exercises. The company built pipelines that synthesize environments end

Neurosurgery resident solves Crouzeix's conjecture with GPT-5.6

A neurosurgery resident with no formal advanced mathematics training has solved Crouzeix's conjecture, a 22-year-old open problem in numerical linear algebra, using a 16-hour autonomous run of GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Work mode. Dr. Shanmu Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and neurosurgery resident at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, prompted ChatGPT 5.6 on July 30, 2026 to work on the conjecture. The model ran autonomously for approximately 16 hours, exploring proof strategies through a branc

Anthropic's Agents Turn on Each Other: Inside the Multi-Agent Turf War

# Anthropic's Agents Turn on Each Other: Inside the Multi-Agent Turf War Anthropic's Frontier Red Team has published research revealing what happens when AI agents collide in shared environments — and the findings should reshape how the industry thinks about multi-agent safety. ## The Experiment Researchers gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with incompatible instructions. The agents didn't know others were working on the same codebase. What followed was consis

Anthropic's Agents Turn on Each Other: Inside the Multi-Agent Turf War

# Anthropic's Agents Turn on Each Other: Inside the Multi-Agent Turf War Anthropic's Frontier Red Team has published research revealing what happens when AI agents collide in shared environments — and the findings should reshape how the industry thinks about multi-agent safety. ## The Experiment Researchers gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with incompatible instructions. The agents didn't know others were working on the same codebase. What followed was consis

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to its Chrome extension, adding skills and plugins to the browser

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to its Chrome extension, adding skills and plugins to the browser Anthropic has updated its Chrome extension to run Claude Cowork sessions directly in the browser side panel. The extension, which previously handled browsing and information gathering, now executes full Cowork workflows that can generate Excel files, PowerPoint slides, and reports from web-based research. The update enables skills, plugins, and connectors to work in the browser without extra setup.

DeepSeek builds a team to challenge Anthropic's Claude Code

DeepSeek is no longer keeping its agent ambitions quiet. The Hangzhou-based lab has opened an official social media account for a new "DeepSeek Harness Team" and posted job listings for roles aimed at building AI agents that can take on products like Anthropic's Claude Code. The account sits on WeChat, the Chinese super-app run by Tencent. Corporate records reviewed by Bloomberg show the account belongs to a Beijing-based entity controlled by DeepSeek, and Tencent has verified it. "Harness"

Mistral opens its platform to third-party models

Mistral said its platform will begin hosting third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, the company announced on August 12, 2026. The move extends Mistral's open-weights strategy beyond its own models and plants the French lab inside the broader contest for European AI sovereignty. GLM-5.2 is a third-party open source text model from Z.ai, hosted by Mistral for long-context coding and agentic workflows. Mistral says it is served without modifications. The model carries a one million

Cisco's AI orders hit $4 billion in a single quarter

Cisco took $4 billion in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026, the company reported on August 12, 2026. The figure caps a year in which demand for the networking gear that connects GPU clusters more than tripled from what Cisco expected nine months earlier. The orders landed inside a quarterly earnings release that otherwise reads like a best case for a legacy networking vendor. Revenue reached $17.3 billion, up 18 percent year over year. Product o