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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.
Mistral AI · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Model
Google says Carbon ranks first on the new Artificial Analysis index and leads tests for finding and fixing security flaws. Only some cyber defenders get it this week; wider access comes later.
Google DeepMind · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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.
155 upvotes
Trending
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.
990 points on Hacker News
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Trending
A developer has an AI agent build the same app in 12 JavaScript frameworks and compares the cost (opens the original source in a new tab)Nolan Lawson had Opus 5.5 build a small Pokémon app five times per framework. Hono+htmx was cheapest at a median $2.67 and Angular dearest at $4.97, in API prices Claude Code reported, not money he spent.
284 points on Hacker News
Nolan Lawson · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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