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Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing: Black Forest Labs has launched Flux 3 Image, featuring support for multi-step edits that preserve the rest of the image. The model allows users to compose scenes using bounding boxes and up to ten reference images, with output capabilities up to 4K. Open weights are scheduled for release in the coming weeks.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

Gemini 4 Argon: Google has pre-announced its upcoming frontier-level artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon. While public outputs are not yet available, the model introduces architectural and performance changes aimed at positioning Google back among the top three AI research labs.

Google • Sam Witteveen

OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’: A compilation of recent artificial intelligence developments highlights growing security concerns, including an OpenAI security warning regarding model control and jailbreaks.

AI Security • AI Explained

OpenAI blocks model reasoning theft that remained active on Azure: OpenAI stopped a coordinated campaign involving over 15,000 accounts attempting to copy the hidden reasoning of its models, linking some activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI. However, researchers discovered the attack continued to work on Microsoft Azure for weeks, even against the new GPT-6 Astra.

Security • The Decoder

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra-powered Dots agent to compete with Meta: At its annual DevDay conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Dots, a new AI agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. The launch aims to compete directly with Meta's successful Muse AI agent platform. The move highlights the intensifying competition between the two tech giants in the agent space.

AI Agents • The Verge AI

Google releases Gemini 4 with RSI technology at half the price of Astra: Google has unexpectedly released Gemini 4, which is enhanced by Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) technology. The new model reportedly outperforms GPT and Claude Opus. Additionally, Gemini 4 is priced at only half the cost of Astra.

AI Models • 量子位

Researchers present Praxa AI agent harness with 100% test pass rate: Researchers have presented Praxa, an agent harness designed to govern AI execution through deterministic admission, brokered execution, and reviewed promotion. In initial testing, the system passed 1,027 out of 1,027 unit tests and 89 out of 89 Workerd tests at a pinned revision.

Infrastructure • arXiv

Kaiming He's team trains encoders on ImageNet to solve ARC tasks: A research team led by Kaiming He has released a new study demonstrating how to tackle the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) challenges. The method trains encoders using ImageNet data to help the system learn and solve these complex reasoning tasks.

AI Research • 量子位

OpenAI • SoftBank

SoftBank and Nvidia complete final $10 billion investments in OpenAI: SoftBank has made the final $10 billion investment of its $30 billion pledge to OpenAI's latest funding round. A source reports that Nvidia has also completed its final $10 billion investment of its own $30 billion commitment to the round.

LLM Inference

AIPerf tool benchmarks LLM inference performance at scale

AI Agents

Evaluating AI agents requires tracking multi-step tool calls in live environments

Prompt Engineering

Prompting models to restate requests reportedly catches 20% of misreads