Frontier

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now hit the application programmi...

Artificial superintelligence (ASI) requires AI to move beyond mastering existing knowledge toward exploring the unknown, creating new knowledge, and turning new ideas into verifiable results. However, the capabilities of today's AI systems are still largely...

Agentic AI systems request tool actions that can modify files, send messages, launch jobs, or change workflow state. This shifts the safety problem from harmful text generation to harmful operational side effects. Prompt-level governance can shape model beh...

Safety alignment in open-weight language models is trivially removable: abliteration projects a refusal-mediating direction out of the weights in minutes, and no release-time defense we are aware of prevents it durably. What cannot be prevented can be decei...

Small Language Models (SLMs) are increasingly deployed in resource-constrained, privacy-sensitive settings, where safety and bias failures can cause security and societal risks. However, existing AI safety\slash security\slash compliance benchmarks are desi...

Clinical trial programming -- transforming study protocols into analysis-ready datasets under CDISC standards -- is a bottleneck in regulatory submissions, yet LLM-based code generation fails catastrophically on this task: across 11 single-shot attempts wit...

As text-to-image generative models advance, they raise critical safety concerns, particularly the generation of Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content such as violence and nudity, further exacerbated by red-teaming adversarial attacks. Existing defenses predomina...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for scientific hypothesis generation. However, evaluating generated hypotheses remains a challenge for trustworthy AI-enabled scientific workflows. Existing approaches often use LLMs as judges or rely on se...

Group-relative policy optimization has emerged as a key paradigm for training agentic large language models (LLMs) on multi-turn interactive tasks. However, most existing variants fail to distinguish advantages among successful trajectories even when these...

Long-context prefill in large language models (LLMs) incurs substantial computation and memory traffic because dense self-attention computes quadratic query-key scores. Existing methods either use a uniform low-precision path or select token interactions, l...

Reinforcement learning for coding agents increasingly relies on long-running agent harnesses to manage tool integration, repository contexts, and execution feedback. However, the native execution environments of these harnesses are inherently misaligned wit...

ByteDance's answer is embedding large-model capabilities as infrastructure into enterprise workflows: Doubao's scheduled agents generate competitor briefings, Seedance 2.5 synthesizes physical-world training data, and Doubao 2.1 Pro handles production-grade...

Thomas Claburn / The Register : OpenAI says the changes to its model training will increase compute overhead by 20% of observed inference workload; the increase will not be handed to customers — Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier...

API buyers purchase a dated contract, not a model name alone: the contract includes the requested and served model, reasoning-effort term or its omission, output rail, service product, prompt, and price schedule. We study the reasoning-effort term through a...

AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical review is even more sharply constrained. Allocating these scarce resources well is th...

Agent Skills can specify procedural and resource obligations for tool use, and language models instantiate them as concrete programs. However, when models turn this guidance into code for existing tool interfaces, even a semantically correct program may loa...

We present KernelArc, a multi-agent framework for autonomous GPU kernel optimization across heterogeneous workloads. Strategy-specialized agents run in parallel and coordinate through conclusions-only shared memory, a deterministic benchmark guard, and read...

Algorithm selection for constraint satisfaction problems requires extracting features that capture problem structure. Manually designing feature extractors demands deep domain expertise and quickly becomes a bottleneck when new problem classes appear. We pr...

Personalized agents must decide whether retrieved user memory should be used, ignored, updated, or queried before it affects a current task. We use this setting to develop an empirical audit protocol for structured intermediate outputs: first audit dataset...