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Research 1h ago

CAPTCHAs Still Catch AI Agents, New Research Finds

What happens when an AI agent hits a CAPTCHA? According to research from Roundtable AI, current CAPTCHA systems can still distinguish AI agents from humans - and the reason has less to do with visual puzzle difficulty than with how agents behave across an entire browsing session.

Companies Notable 1h ago

Robinhood Builds AI Agents to Execute Trades and Spend Money for Users

Most AI financial tools give you a recommendation and wait for you to click buy. Robinhood wants to skip that step entirely.

Policy Notable 4h ago

SOC Analysts Are Using AI for Triage - And Their Data Is Leaking Out

The triage queue is backed up. An alert just fired with 47 correlated events. An analyst pulls the context, pastes it into an AI tool, and gets a readable summary in 10 seconds instead of spending 10 minutes reading raw logs. It works. So they do it again tomorrow. Then the whole team starts doing it.

Companies Notable 6h ago

CEOs Are Cutting Junior Roles While Admitting They Can't Prove AI ROI

43%. That's the share of CEOs now planning to cut junior roles because of AI, up from 17% just one year ago, according to an Oliver Wyman survey. The same survey found only 27% of those CEOs said their AI investments were producing measurable results.

Models 7h ago

What Sending 1.15 Billion Tokens to Claude in a Month Teaches You

1,156,308,524 input tokens. One developer. One month.

Tools Notable 7h ago

Adobe's New Conversational Image Tool Is a Promising but Uneven Design Assistant

Most AI image generators operate the same way: you write a prompt, get an image, rewrite the prompt, and repeat until something clicks. Adobe's new conversational AI image assistant takes a different path - you describe changes in plain language through back-and-forth dialogue, refining results without rebuilding your prompt from scratch each time.

Companies Notable 7h ago

$500K AI Film That Claimed a Cannes Premiere Wasn't in the Official Selection

The line between "screened at Cannes" and "premiered at Cannes" is meaningful - and a $500,000 AI-generated film just blurred it.

Models 10h ago

What It's Actually Like to Use Opus 4.8 Day-to-Day

Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable model, and using it regularly makes the difference from previous versions clear fairly quickly.

Companies Notable 12h ago

Anthropic Is Bringing Claude Into Synthetic Biology to Help Design DNA

What happens when the tool that writes your code gets pointed at the code inside living cells?

Models 13h ago

Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a Sparse Edge Model with 1B Active Parameters

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a small model built for edge deployment - running on laptops, phones, or on-premise hardware rather than cloud servers.

Tools 14h ago

ChatGPT Plus Users Hit 'Too Many Concurrent Requests' Errors After Days of No Use

Something is off with how OpenAI is managing capacity for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Users are hitting "too many concurrent requests" error messages even after not touching the platform for multiple days - a problem that cuts directly against the main reason people pay $20 a month for Plus.

Tools 15h ago

Reading Claude Code's Source Reveals Undocumented Config Options

Reading Claudee Code(/tools/claude-code/)'s source code turns out to be more useful than reading its documentation, at least when it comes to configuration.

Open Source 15h ago

llama.cpp Build b9387 Boosts Prompt Processing Speed on AMD MI-Series Cards

AMD GPU owners running local language models got a meaningful speed improvement. Build b9387 of llama.cpp delivers a significant bump in prompt processing performance on AMD's datacenter-grade CDNA architecture chips.

Research Notable 16h ago

Microsoft's Own Data: AI Agents Can Cost More Than the Humans They Replace

The pitch has been consistent for three years: replace expensive humans with cheap AI. Microsoft's own data is now complicating that story.

Companies Notable 16h ago

Glean Hits $300M Revenue by Selling AI Cost-Cutting to Budget-Squeezed Enterprises

$300 million. That's Glean's annual revenue run rate as of mid-2026, triple what the enterprise AI search company posted the year before. The growth is notable not just for the number, but for how Glean is now framing the sales pitch: as a tool that cuts AI spending rather than adding to it.

Models Notable 16h ago

StepFun's 3.7 Flash Beats Gemini and DeepSeek on Coding Benchmarks, Runs on 128GB RAM

56.26% on SWE-Bench Pro - that's Step 3.7 Flash's score on the benchmark that tests AI models by having them fix actual bugs from real GitHub repositories. It beats DeepSeek V4 Flash (55.6%) and Gemini Flash 3.5 (55.1%), and it runs entirely on local hardware.

Models Notable 17h ago

Mysterious 'Hy3' Model Tops OpenRouter Rankings With No Public Documentation

On OpenRouter's model comparison leaderboard, the top slot usually belongs to a name you recognize - something from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. As of late May 2026, a model called "Hy3" has climbed past all of them by what analyst Max Woolf described as a large margin - and its origins are unclear enough that Woolf's analysis is one of the only places the story has been written up.