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View More NewsIn brief 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled “Tulong Feng” at ISC.AI 2026, claiming it is China’s answer to Anthropic’s Mythos Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, released the week Anthropic’s models went dark, scored higher than Claude Code on a key vulnerability detection benchmark at roughly $0.17 per finding. Both moves come as Anthropic continues negotiating with the Commerce Department over reinstating access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5. The U.S. restricted Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI model Claude Mythos behind export controls and a vetted coalition. China held a conference and announced it already has something like it—then a separate company uploaded a near-equivalent to…
Claude Mythos and DeFi: Real threat or overblown fear?When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos-class models as its most advanced AI system for cybersecurity, it drew the usual mix of reactions from crypto communities. The lineup included Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model intended for broad use, although access was later suspended after a US government directive.The concern around decentralized finance (DeFi) was easy to understand. If AI systems can find software flaws faster and with less human input, attackers may also use them to spot weak points in protocols before security teams can fix them. Those concerns may seem overstated, but they…
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On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’s eponymous 1782 novel.The book has also been denounced plenty of times since it first appeared—back then, it was described with words like “execrable” or “infamous.” Its authorship reportedly got Laclos,…
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from the chaos dept There’s something going on over in Microsoft’s Xbox division and it isn’t good. Don’t take my word on that. Apparently…