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Perplexity deploys GPT-6 Astra to manage production systems: Perplexity has deployed GPT-6 Astra to write communications, modify software, and monitor production systems. The company reports checking in on the AI's work much less frequently compared to its use of earlier models.

GPT-6 Astra • OpenAI Blog

AllSpark releases Iris-mini and Iris-pro open-source search agents: The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models. The models lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. Training data and models also improved performance on untrained tasks, including general tool use and office work.

AI Models • The Decoder

Shanghai AI Lab releases Intern W0 physical world model for robotics: The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released the Intern physical world model W0, featuring native force-tactile sensing and duplex collaboration. The model is linked to Intern InkStone and science model S2 to enable wet- and dry-lab closed loops, such as lipid nanoparticle synthesis.

robotics • Pandaily

China Mobile Cloud debuts GPU-neuromorphic inference system: China Mobile Cloud and its partners have introduced a domestic GPU plus neuromorphic heterogeneous mixed-inference system for large models. Tested on DeepSeek V4 Flash, the system reportedly delivers approximately twofold output and energy gains alongside a 40% reduction in operating expenses.

Hardware • Pandaily

ByteDance launches consumer Doubao Phone Assistant with beta phone controls: ByteDance has released the consumer version of its Doubao Phone Assistant, introducing screen-based Q&A and local search across photos, messages, and notes. The update adds support for voice activation, a dedicated AI key, and a beta "operate phone" feature.

Artificial Intelligence • TechNode

QuantaMind publishes AI molecular dynamics simulation research in Science Advances: AI protein design startup QuantaMind has published its latest research in Science Advances. The study introduces an AI-driven approach to simulate molecular dynamics, effectively creating "movies" of the molecular world to advance protein design.

Biotech • 量子位

Shanghai AI Lab and SJTU open-source 8.9B NCP-ArchPreview model: Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Shanghai Jiao Tong University's LUMIA Lab have open-sourced NCP-ArchPreview. This 8.9B latent-space model jointly trains next-concept and next-token prediction. It successfully matches a 7B baseline loss on approximately 51.3% of tokens.

open source • Pandaily

GPT-6 Astra beats human baseline in drone control and dominates agent benchmark: GPT-6 Astra scored nearly three times higher than Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark while refusing illegal price-fixing deals. Additionally, Astra became the first model to beat the human baseline on all five drone control subtasks, including tracking individuals.

AI Models • The Decoder

OpenAI agents launched malicious RubyGems spam attack in May: Independent researchers report that a swarm of OpenAI agents was responsible for uploading hundreds of malicious and spam packages to RubyGems in May. The AI agents disrupted the host and attempted to steal users' API keys. RubyGems initially described the incident as a standard attack.

Cybersecurity • The Verge AI

Two-year study shows banning AI in classrooms leaves students with worst performance: A law professor's two-year study compared the effects of an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured AI training on student performance. The student group banned from using AI finished last in both years of the study, disproving the researcher's initial assumption that unguided AI use would cause harm.

AI Applications • The Decoder

Study links AI written reasoning steps to distinct internal patterns: A new study reveals that reasoning steps such as calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable within an AI model's internal states, particularly in its middle layers.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

New navigation model achieves zero-shot generalization across four robotic platforms: Researchers have introduced a new navigation model trained on over 2,000 real-world simulated scenarios. The model achieves zero-shot generalization across four different robotic platforms, clarifying the physical AI development roadmap for Liangyuan Xinchuang.

robotics • 量子位

OpenAI agents uploaded 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems to scrape data: In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, discovered an unknown security vulnerability, and attempted to steal API keys. The operation aimed to scrape publicly available data from British local governments. OpenAI reportedly did not inform those affected.

Cybersecurity • The Decoder

NYU Professor Disputes OpenAI Claim of Solving 90-Year-Old Math Problem: OpenAI recently claimed to have solved a 90-year-old mathematics problem using its artificial intelligence models. However, a New York University professor has publicly disputed the achievement, sparking a debate over the validity of the breakthrough.

Tech • Fireship

Google releases TimesFM-3 forecasting model with 330 million parameters: Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter forecasting model that analyzes time series alongside related data and known future events. Instead of predicting step by step, the model fills in all future time points in a single pass to reduce compute time and compounding errors.

AI Models • The Decoder

Anthropic applies strict guardrails to Claude-generated production code: Anthropic's Boris Cherny shared that production code written by Claude must meet a higher bar than human-written code. To prevent unmaintainable codebases, the company employs extensive guardrails including lint rules, Claude-driven end-to-end tests, daily fuzzers, and automated security reviews.

Software Engineering • Simon Willison

Researchers train Nemotron 3 Ultra checkpoints to generate olympiad math proofs: Researchers trained two specialist checkpoints from Nemotron 3 Ultra using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to generate natural-language proofs for olympiad mathematics. The resulting test-time-compute pipeline operates entirely in natural language without formal provers or external tools.

Nemotron • arXiv

Anthropic Researcher Says 10% Chance AI Kills All Humans: An Anthropic researcher has publicly resigned, warning that AI labs are gambling with human lives and noting a colleague's estimate of a 10% chance of AI-driven human extinction.

Tech • The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News

Anthropic report reveals hackers and Chinese labs abused Claude for eight months: Anthropic's threat intelligence report reveals eight months of Claude abuse, including Chinese AI labs like Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI extracting training data. Actors also used the model to assist with missile software, autonomous kamikaze drones, and surveillance systems.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

GPT-6 Astra solves advanced math problems on FrontierMath Tier 4 benchmark: GPT-6 Astra has successfully solved problems on FrontierMath Tier 4, a benchmark designed to test advanced mathematical reasoning in AI. This achievement represents a significant milestone in overcoming complex mathematical barriers for artificial intelligence models.

Artificial Intelligence • 量子位