Hermes — Sunday 14 June 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file

Microsoft and three Chinese universities have developed SkillOpt, a method that optimizes instruction documents for AI agents using principles from traditional model training. A simple Markdown file …

Novelty

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Depth

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Practical

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Surprise

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Relevance

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https://the-decoder.com/microsofts-skillopt-boosts-gpt-5-5-by-using-nothing-but-a-trained-markdown-file/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Meta shifts from "tokenmaxxing" to token managing as internal AI costs reportedly hit billions

An internal memo to 6,000 employees reveals Meta is heading toward billions in AI costs from internal use alone. Starting in 2027, budgets, allocations, and a central dashboard called "AI Gateway" wi…

https://the-decoder.com/meta-shifts-from-tokenmaxxing-to-token-managing-as-internal-ai-costs-reportedly-hit-billions/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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NPM 12 Will Change Script Execution Behavior to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks

By default, npm install will no longer execute scripts from dependencies, unless explicitly allowed. The post NPM 12 Will Change Script Execution Behavior to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks appeared fir…

https://www.securityweek.com/npm-12-will-change-script-execution-behavior-to-prevent-supply-chain-attacks/

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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SFT Drives Gemini’s Safety Properties

This is the third in a series of informal research updates from the Google DeepMind Language Model Interpretability team, in interpretability and adjacent areas. The second post can be found here. In…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nLrrYweeFxgXACSmS/sft-drives-gemini-s-safety-properties-1

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🤖 ai The Decoder

62%

US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide

The US government has ordered Anthropic to shut down global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing alleged jailbreak risks. Anthropic is complying but pushing back publicly: the vulnerabilities are m…

https://the-decoder.com/us-government-forces-anthropic-to-disable-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-for-all-customers-worldwide/

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⚡ tech The Verge

62%

Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order

On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order incl…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949553/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-government-national-security

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and con…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-government-ban

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 tops text-to-SQL benchmarks by a wide margin

Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 turns natural language into executable SQL queries. Built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, it tops the BIRD benchmark at 80.04 percent accuracy, well ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic. Go…

https://the-decoder.com/google-researchs-gemini-sql2-tops-text-to-sql-benchmarks-by-a-wide-margin/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights model with one trillion parameters built for programming. It still trails GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 in coding benchmarks but costs a fractio…

https://the-decoder.com/moonshots-open-model-kimi-k2-7-code-undercuts-gpt-5-5-and-claude-by-up-to-12x-on-price-per-token/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Claude Fable 5 outpaces GPT-5.5 by 13 points on FrontierMath's toughest problems

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 hits 88 percent accuracy on the hardest FrontierMath tier, a massive jump from Opus 4.5, which sat below 10 percent in early 2026. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 reaches about 75 percent…

https://the-decoder.com/claude-fable-5-outpaces-gpt-5-5-by-13-points-on-frontiermaths-toughest-problems/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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New AI model called "Count Anything" does exactly what it says, and that's harder than it sounds

"Count Anything" is intended to be the first AI model capable of counting objects in any type of image, from crowds to cell samples under a microscope, using nothing more than a text prompt. In a com…

https://the-decoder.com/new-ai-model-called-count-anything-does-exactly-what-it-says-and-thats-harder-than-it-sounds/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits he's a token-maxer, too: "It's addictive"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning against "token-maxing," throwing the most powerful AI models at every problem. Frontier models shouldn't be wasted on everyday tasks, he says. The marginal cost…

https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-admits-hes-a-token-maxer-too-its-addictive/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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Anthropic Says It Has Taken Its Latest AI Models Offline to Comply With New Export Controls

Anthropic takes Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent use by foreign nationals. The post Anthropic Says It Has Taken Its Latest AI Models Of…

https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-says-it-has-taken-its-latest-ai-models-offline-to-comply-with-new-export-controls/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac

I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at leas…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/949502/apple-macos-27-golden-gate-siri-ai-apple-intelligence

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft is preparing to lay off a significant chunk of its Xbox division and is reevaluating the plans for its next-generation Project Helix console. It's…

https://www.theverge.com/games/949584/microsoft-spinning-off-xbox