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They trained it to code. It got better at breaking in.

A Chinese lab's coding AI got much better at breaking into software, a data center developer walked out of an Iloilo consultation, and Alibaba gave away an AI that watches hour-long video.

01Top Story

Z.ai's new AI learned to break in

Z.ai, a Chinese lab, spent a month training its newest AI to write better code, and its ability to find and break into flawed software more than doubled along with it. The lab says it will give the AI away free in two weeks.

why it matters
The software that hunts for holes in apps and websites is about to be free to download, by anyone, including the people you would not want holding it.
Read at Z.ai
02Philippines

Iloilo said no. He walked out.

Residents of Oton, Iloilo told a Norwegian executive on Friday that they did not want his 50-megawatt AI data center, and he ended the consultation and left, then swore at reporters outside.

why it matters
The Visayas grid already goes down on its own, and this one site would have drawn 50 megawatts off it before a single home did.
Read at Rappler
03Apps

Alibaba gave away an AI that watches video

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, an AI anyone can download free and run on their own computer, and it reads photos, documents and hour-long videos, not just text.

why it matters
It is yours to keep once downloaded, so nothing you feed it leaves your machine and nobody bills you per question.
Read at Hugging Face
04Meta

Meta's glasses want to know your face

A Meta patent published Thursday describes smart glasses that use facial recognition to work out who is in front of you, film them on their own, and cut the night into a highlight reel.

why it matters
A patent is not a product, but it is the clearest sign yet that the glasses already on sale are built to learn faces.
Read at 404 Media
05OpenAI

2,500 PhD questions in 11 hours

OpenAI and chipmaker Cerebras switched on a faster setting for GPT-5.6 Sol that worked through 2,500 PhD-level questions in 11 hours, a set that took a rival AI more than three days.

why it matters
Only a handful of paying customers can touch it today, but this is the speed everything else now gets measured against.
Read at Cerebras

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