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Mistral says the model, nicknamed Le Chonk and previewed earlier this month, is now the best open-weight model for coding and handles defensive security work without needless refusals.
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Open source
Arize Phoenix 21.0.0 turns on sign-in by default in its open-source tool for watching and testing AI apps (opens the original source in a new tab)The major release of the AI observability and evaluation tool no longer needs a secret set before login works, adds decision and agent annotation types, and fetches model prices at runtime to track costs.
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Research
A small module pulls 'physical tokens' about motion, depth and movement from what the robot sees and feeds them to its actions. The authors report 99.3% success on the LIBERO simulation test.
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A developer gets GPT-5.6 Sol to launch a rocket in Factorio, a factory-building game, with no enemies on (opens the original source in a new tab)Sol ran in Codex and played through code that keeps human limits such as reach. The run took 13.5 hours of game time, and Ryan Madden says the launch needed a lot of 'manual' work from the model.
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Phorion finds a backdoor in the Claude Code for VS Code extension on Cursor's marketplace (opens the original source in a new tab)Phorion says version 2.1.313 plants an attacker's key so they can log in to the computer over SSH, a remote-access tool. That version was pulled from Cursor's marketplace, npm and the VS Code registry.
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