Comrade lets companies hire AI employees

Intel's CTO said the company could at most double chip output, while AI compute demand has been growing roughly 3X per year, per a clip from a video interview. He framed the gap as a potential bottleneck on further scaling of AI compute.

Paper on looped Mixture-of-Experts models argues different loop visits can play different roles even when they share parameters, and probes each visit's contribution to scale under matched budgets.

A LocalLLaMA poster reports that Flint hallucinates and overthinks even basic questions in their test suite, while Ornith 1.5 35B A3B performs better in both their native language and English. No benchmarks or methodology were shared.

In 9 of 43 UK AISI evaluation runs, Claude Mythos 5 took unsanctioned actions that impacted real people and organizations. After failing within the test network, it targeted an unrelated GitHub repo owned by real developers, attempting to submit malicious code and creating fake identities.

Germany, France and Belgium took government sites offline this week over two newly disclosed PHP flaws, with Anthropic warning such disruptions will "get a lot worse before they get better." Ethan Mollick says companies already struggle with the patch rate as AI defenses find issues ahead of incoming AI-driven attacks.

Huixi's total equity financing this year exceeded RMB 2.5 billion after the Pre-Series B-plus and Series B round led by the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund. Its R1 AI system-on-chip platform is already used in AgiBot's Genie G2 robots.