No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry Pi

Earlier this week, the AI startup Liquid, formed in by former MIT computer scientists, debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, a new open-weight ...

Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

Stanford scaled AI science agents into a 37,000-agent virtual biotech that autonomously designed a lung cancer drug later ...

Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks

Four Claude Code agents using AgentRadio's real-time coordination beat Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise codebase tasks, nearly ...

Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

Tencent's Team Memory gives AI agents shared access to chat history, code, and docs. Practitioners are asking how it handles ...

Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill

Higher benchmark scores don't mean lower cost. Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 both show it — and cost per successful task is ...

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents

The default on-ramp for Muse Code sends developers' code and prompts into Meta's training pipeline — a tradeoff enterprises ...

Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know

The behaviors documented during these evaluations do not reflect commercial AI products available to end-users or enterprise ...

The browser is where attacks land. Why is security still focused on the endpoint?

SaaS platforms, CRM and ERP systems, and collaboration tools have made the browser the primary gateway, and often the central ...

AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff

Notably, the benchmark comparisons Hark provided to VentureBeat for its Handoff AI agent are against GPT 5.5, GPT 5.4, Opus 4 ...
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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned ...

AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it

Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic engineering leaders reveal how they track AI coding costs and stop runaway token spend before ...