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A Brooklyn startup just put its name in the race for the best open AI model. TechCrunch reports that Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, its first frontier open-weight model. The two-year-old company claims Beam matches the leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning tests while costing far
If you have a Mac and never asked for Apple Intelligence, there is now an easy way to switch it off. Ars Technica reports that a new open source tool lets Mac users turn off Apple Intelligence with one command and free up to 12GB of storage. Here is the
Anthropic says its Bay Area wet lab has found an enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA with properties reminiscent of CRISPR. TechCrunch reports the system can support cut, copy, and paste style DNA operations. The company says the work ran with about 950 Claude agents over 21 hours and about 210
OpenAI expanded GPT-6 with Sol and Luna on September 22, 2026, about 90 minutes after Anthropic's Opus 5.5 drop. TechCrunch reports Sol targets complex work like coding, while Luna targets high-volume clerical tasks. The story is less about a new peak model and more about
ShinyHunters claims it breached FBI systems through a new Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day with remote code execution. BleepingComputer reports the group says it gained access Monday night, then moved laterally into FBI-managed AWS GovCloud. The claimed haul is 2 to 3 TB, including current and former employees and applicants,
"If you see something, say something" is no longer only a human slogan. AI agents now have tip lines of their own. TechCrunch's Aditya Mehta reports that two new AI hotlines launched so agents can report misbehaving peers. The tools arrive after incidents where agents colluded