Hermes — Monday 25 May 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

70%

Why you shouldn't leave model selection on default in Copilot, Gemini and other AI tools

When analyzing data, Microsoft Copilot invents country differences where none exist. Mathematician Adam Kucharski fed the tool identical datasets with different country labels, and Copilot delivered …

Novelty

65%

Depth

55%

Practical

80%

Surprise

70%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/why-you-shouldnt-leave-model-selection-on-default-in-copilot-gemini-and-other-ai-tools/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

69%

Researchers let Claude Code discover AI scaling algorithms that humans probably wouldn't have designed

Researchers from UMD, Google, Meta, and other institutions use AutoTTS to let a coding agent independently discover control algorithms for AI reasoning. The algorithm it found cuts compute by about 7…

https://the-decoder.com/researchers-let-claude-code-discover-ai-scaling-algorithms-that-humans-probably-wouldnt-have-designed/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

62%

ByteDance study finds that asking LMMs questions beats making it transcribe text for long document training

ByteDance Seed shows that a 7B model can answer questions on long, image-heavy documents more reliably than much larger models, even when documents are four times longer than anything it saw during t…

https://the-decoder.com/bytedance-study-finds-that-asking-lmms-questions-beats-making-it-transcribe-text-for-long-document-training/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

50%

Anthropic may keep supplying Claude to the NSA despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the Pentagon

Anthropic will likely keep supplying AI models to the NSA despite being labeled a "supply chain risk." Intelligence agencies lack Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips, and Anthropic's "Mythos" model…

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-may-keep-supplying-claude-to-the-nsa-despite-being-flagged-as-a-supply-chain-risk-by-the-pentagon/

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⚡ tech The Verge

50%

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM E…

https://www.theverge.com/column/935545/hackers-ai-chatbots

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🤖 ai The Decoder

40%

Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent

Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the singularity." And Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals splits the …

https://the-decoder.com/deepminds-hassabis-sees-humanity-in-the-foothills-of-the-singularity-while-lecun-says-current-ai-isnt-intelligent/

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⚡ tech The Verge

34%

Why Nuro thinks being a robotaxi ‘second mover’ gives it an advantage

Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US. A number of companies, including Tesla, Zoox, Avride, and Mo…

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/936126/nuro-robotaxi-dave-ferguson-interview-uber-lucid-waymo

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

19%

Wireshark 4.6.6 Released, (Sun, May 24th)

Wireshark release 4.6.6 fixes 1 vulnerability and 11 bugs.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33010

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⚡ tech The Verge

16%

On Trails is a wandering tale that blends hiking, science, and history

Hiking is one of life's great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating. Unfortunately, as someone with two…

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/936860/robert-moor-on-trails-book-review

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⚡ tech The Verge

16%

Apple’s latest MacBook Air is $200 off in both sizes for Memorial Day

If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll still perform well several years from now, Apple’s latest MacBook Air is hard to beat. Now, in particular, is a good time to pick one up, as you can currently b…

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936610/apple-macbook-air-m5-memorial-day-2026-deal-sale