LMArena Started Grading AI on Facts, and the Leaderboard Broke
LMArena’s factuality-adjusted rankings weight truth at 25% — GPT-5.5 jumped 13 spots while Meta’s Muse Spark fell 13. Popularity isn’t enough.
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Researchers Stole Hidden AI ‘Reasoning’ From OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs. All Three Have Now Patched It.
A paper from ELLIS Institute Tübingen and MPI showed encrypted chain-of-thought from major AI APIs could be stolen cross-session. Vendors have patched it.
OrcaCyber Zero 1.5: Continuum AI’s Cybersecurity Reasoning Model Claims 100% on Cybench
Continuum AI has launched OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity reasoning model with a 1M-token context window that claims 100% on Cybench — plus plans for an open-weight release next week.
LG and NVIDIA Sign MoU: Bipedal Humanoid on Isaac GR00T Due Q1 2027
LG will build a next-gen bipedal humanoid on NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T, with a public unveiling set for Q1 2027, under an MoU signed August 13 in Santa Clara.
Cisco Puts Claude and OpenAI Agents Inside Webex Meetings
Cisco is putting AI agents from both Anthropic and OpenAI inside Webex — so the agents come to your meeting instead of making you go to them. Plus RoomOS 27 with Google Meet support in November and a customer-experience harness called Dialog.
Character.AI Bankruptcy: Chatbot Pioneer Files Chapter 11, Sells Assets to Disney for $20M
Character.AI, the conversational-AI pioneer founded by ex-Google researchers, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell assets to Disney for $20 million — two years after Google’s $2.7B talent deal. What happened, what it means for users, and the lesson for AI startups.
LangChain’s Managed Deep Agents v0.9: Schedules SDK and On-Demand Tool Loading
Deep Agents v0.9 adds a Schedules SDK for delayed reminders and background tasks, plus dynamic tool binding that loads tools only when needed.
Generate Images Locally with Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI: A Beginner’s Workflow Guide
Install ComfyUI, load a Stable Diffusion checkpoint, and generate your first image with the default text-to-image workflow — then learn what each node does.
Manus Raises Over $500 Million to Stay Independent After Beijing Unwound Meta’s $2 Billion Acquisition
Butterfly Effect has closed a funding round of more than $500 million, co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, months after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion-plus acquisition of the Chinese AI agent startup.
LLM Quantization Explained Hands-On: GGUF with llama.cpp and AWQ with llm-compressor
Quantize LLMs hands-on: convert models to GGUF and quantize with llama.cpp, then produce AWQ checkpoints with llm-compressor for fast GPU serving.