Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which …
https://the-decoder.com/cursors-agent-swarm-suggests-cheaper-models-can-handle-most-coding-when-frontier-models-plan-the-work/Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in its MDASH multi-agent system. Microsoft says costs should drop by 50…
https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-launches-its-own-cybersecurity-model-mai-cyber-1-flash-but-still-depends-on-openai-for-the-toughest-tasks/Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on ARC-AGI-3, nearly quadrupling GPT-5.6 Sol's previous record of 7.8 percent. The benchmark's developers say the model independently formulated reflecti…
https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-opus-5-blows-past-fable-5-and-gpt-5-6-sol-on-the-benchmark-designed-to-measure-real-intelligence/A threat actor has been using the compromised appliances to target the Microsoft 365 accounts of traveling corporate employees. The post Hacked Public Wi-Fi Gateways Used to Harvest Corporate Credent…
https://www.securityweek.com/hacked-public-wi-fi-gateways-used-to-harvest-corporate-credentials/Microsoft has addressed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Automation. This security flaw could allow attackers to gain elevated privileges and potentially access resources belonging to othe…
https://petri.com/microsoft-azure-automation-cross-tenant-access-flaw/This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models …
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/METR's new metric, the "expenditure horizon," puts a dollar figure on how cost-effective AI agents are at solving problems. Early results on the NanoGPT speedrun are underwhelming, the metric has bli…
https://the-decoder.com/metr-introduces-a-new-metric-to-calculate-exactly-when-ai-agents-become-more-expensive-than-humans/Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Epoch and METR re…
https://jack-clark.net/2026/07/27/import-ai-466-the-bitter-lesson-for-robotics-ais-complete-week-long-programming-tasks-and-openais-accidental-ai-hacker/Decades after it appeared in “The Terminator,” Skynet looks more like a forecast of the cyber incident in which a rogue AI system hacked into another AI company on its own. The post For Some, So-Call…
https://www.securityweek.com/for-some-so-called-skynet-day-came-too-close-to-sci-fi-after-a-rogue-agent-hacked-into-a-startup/Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular …
https://the-decoder.com/moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-open-weights-and-infrastructure-after-shaking-up-the-frontier-model-race/OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of job-specific queries involve tasks from other professions. The company calls this "task crossover." The trend…
https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-more-workers-are-using-chatgpt-to-do-other-peoples-jobs/People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 20th. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via …
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971444/how-chinese-open-weight-ai-models-impact-us-companiesThe physics of cybersecurity are changing. Introducing security's new cyber stack: Project Perception. The post Rethinking security for the age of AI appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/27/rethinking-security-for-the-age-of-ai/Microsoft 365 is the productivity backbone for many organizations, but it doesn’t include a ‘complete’ backup solution out-of-the-box. Microsoft has improved the native story with Microsoft 365 Backu…
https://petri.com/best-microsoft-365-backup-solutions/Microsoft's External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA) is a global AI security initiative designed to advance AI safety research and red teaming. By partnering with universities, researchers, and regional ex…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/27/enhancing-ai-security-through-global-ai-red-teaming/