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Banks Say They're Finding Rogue AI Agents Inside Customer Accounts
Reports say major US banks detected autonomous AI agents acting unexpectedly inside customer accounts, part of a wider surge in AI-linked security incidents.

How to Build an AI Second Brain: The 4 Core Components
A practical framework for building a personal AI second brain using context, connections, cadence, and capabilities to run your work.

What Is 'Black October'? The 2025 Cyberattack Wave Explained
A surge of breaches hit Railway, Quest Diagnostics, Zeeba, PHP, and more in days. Here's what happened during the "Black October" cluster.

How to Use the New Claude Projects With Multi-Threaded Tasks
Claude's redesigned app adds multi-threaded projects, side chats, and split view. Here's a practical breakdown of how the new workflow works.

Claude Projects: Which Plans Get Access, and Why Opus Eats Your Limits
Claude's redesigned projects feature runs multiple threads at once but is limited to Pro and Max plans, defaulting to Opus on high effort.

Clover 35B-A3B Benchmarks vs Reality: Does It Actually Beat Qwen?
Hands-on tests of Clover 35B-A3B against its own benchmark charts reveal gaps in coding, multilingual output, and logic puzzles versus Qwen.

Clover-35B-A3B: A New Open-Source Diffusion Language Model Explained
Clover-35B-A3B-Preview pairs block diffusion with a 35B MoE backbone and 128K context. Here's how it works and what it takes to run.

How to Run Clover 35B-A3B, DiffuSpace's Diffusion Language Model, Locally
A practical guide to installing DiffuSpace's Clover 35B-A3B diffusion model locally, covering VRAM needs, setup steps, and real-world performance.

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's New Model Tops the Benchmarks, Here's the Data
Gemini 4 Carbon hits 59 on Artificial Analysis's index, leading cybersecurity and agentic benchmarks over GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's Cybersecurity AI Model, No API Yet
Google says Gemini 4 Carbon tops intelligence and cybersecurity benchmarks, but with no public access, its numbers can't yet be independently checked.

Gemini 4 Carbon: Pricing, Rollout, and Cyber-First Access Explained
Gemini 4 Carbon launches at $2/$10 per million tokens before rising to $4/$20, with cyber defenders getting access before the public does.

NCM vs LLMs: Independent Speed Benchmark Results Explained
Independent DGX Spark tests show Stanford's NCM is 4x faster than matched LLMs solo, but slower once requests get batched.

What Are Next Concept Models? Stanford's Coarse-to-Fine Text AI
Stanford's Next Concept Model writes text in rough-to-fine passes instead of word by word. Here's how NCM works, and where its speed claims hold up.

Qwen Audio Agent + Claude Code: Voice Setup Guide for Hands-Free Coding
A step-by-step guide to wiring Qwen Audio Agent's voice interface to Claude Code via ACP, so you can talk while it codes in the background.

How to Run Clover-35B-A3B-Preview Locally with SGLang
A deployment guide to Clover-35B-A3B's VRAM needs, block diffusion decoding, and setup with Transformers or the recommended SGLang backend.

Sam Altman's AI Cybersecurity Warning: Why Patching Bugs Won't Work
Sam Altman says one-by-one bug patching can't keep up with AI-discovered exploits. Here's what his warning means and why defense is shifting to AI vs AI.

AI Agent Productivity: 4 Principles to Avoid Productivity Theater
Four practical principles for managing AI agents without drowning in productivity theater, from attention budgets to knowing when to stop.

AI World Models vs Video Generators: What Genie 4 Changes
Genie 4 lets you explore AI worlds in real time instead of just watching a clip. Here's how world models differ from tools like Veo.

How to Run Carbon-X Locally for DNA Analysis on One GPU
A setup guide for self-hosting Carbon-X, the 14.8B DNA language model, on a single 80GB GPU using vLLM or Transformers for local inference.

When to Fold Sub-Agents Into Your Main Claude Code Agent
Anthropic's new guidance explains when multi-agent setups help vs hurt, and when folding sub-agents into one main loop wins instead.

DeepSeek Banned From US Federal Systems: What's Actually Covered
DHS ordered DeepSeek purged from federal civilian systems, including third-party tools built on it. Here's what the order covers and who it affects.

Genie 4 Access: Is It Free and How to Get Off the Waitlist
Google's Genie 4 world model is live as an experiment. Here's what's known about waitlist access, pricing, and when wider rollout might happen.

Google Genie 4: Hands-On With the New AI World Model
Google's Genie 4 generates interactive, explorable video worlds in real time. Here's how it works, what it gets wrong, and why it matters.

What Is Grokbot? xAI's Persistent Cloud AI Agent Explained
Grokbot turns Grok into an always-on cloud agent with its own browser and terminal. Here's how it works and what bundling it means for users.