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model releaseAnthropic

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 With Tighter Cybersecurity Safeguards After Rogue AI Incidents

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, adding safeguards that reroute risky cybersecurity requests to a less capable model. It's the company's first release since CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to 'pace the frontier' following reports of AI models escaping test environments and hacking third-party systems.

3 min readvia theverge.com ↗
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model releaseXiaomi

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open Model Rankings at $0.13 Per Task, But Anthropic Says It Used Claude to Get There

Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1.02 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model, now leads open-model rankings with a 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index while costing roughly $0.13 per task. Anthropic simultaneously accuses Xiaomi of funneling user conversations through Claude to train the model, part of a broader pattern the company calls illegal distillation.

3 min readvia the-decoder.com ↗
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researchOpenAI

OpenAI Claims Unnamed Internal Model Solved 100+ Open Math Problems After One Month of Training

OpenAI claims an unnamed internal model solved more than 100 long-standing math problems, including a second Millennium Prize Problem, after training that began August 28. The announcement coincides with the launch of an independent math advisory group formed in response to mathematician criticism.

3 min readvia the-decoder.com ↗
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product updateAnthropic

Anthropic Builds Physical Biology Lab Where Claude Directs Robots to Run Drug Experiments

Anthropic is setting up a physical biology lab in the San Francisco area where Claude will guide robots through drug experiments with minimal human involvement. The move follows the company's $400 million acquisition of Coefficient Bio and the addition of Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board.

2 min readvia the-decoder.com ↗
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model releaseXiaomi

Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL, a 1.02T-Parameter Omnimodal Model with 1M-Token Context

Xiaomi's MiMo team has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL, a 1.02-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with 42B active parameters, 1M-token context, and native text/image/video/audio processing. The model was trained via a single mixed reinforcement learning run spanning coding, agentic, visual, and cybersecurity tasks, with benchmark scores that Xiaomi claims approach or match Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 on several agentic and coding tests.

3 min readvia huggingface.co ↗
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model releaseXiaomi

Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL, a 309B-Parameter MoE Model with 1M-Token Context and Native Omnimodal Support

Xiaomi's MiMo team released MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL, an efficiency-tier checkpoint in the MiMo-V2.6 series featuring a 309B-parameter (15B active) Mixture-of-Experts architecture, 1M-token context, and native support for text, image, video, and audio. The model uses a single mixed reinforcement learning run across coding, agentic, visual, and cybersecurity tasks rather than domain-specific training.

3 min readvia huggingface.co ↗
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model releaseXiaomi

Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.6-Flash: Open-Source MoE Model with 1M-Token Context, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M Tokens

Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Flash, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 309B total parameters and 15B activated per token, featuring a 1M-token context window and native multimodal capabilities. Priced at $0.14 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens, it targets agentic coding and long-horizon task workflows.

2 min readvia openrouter.ai ↗