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Artificial intelligence

Tether AI Research introduces BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter local agent

Tether AI Research introduced BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter model for calling tools and running workflows on a device. It is based on Qwen3.5-0.8B and is being released with open weights for research and education. The team says it led five of six tool-use benchmarks among tested models with up to 1.2 billion parameters, while acknowledging limits in open-ended search, difficult tasks, and lower-resource languages.

Aster editorial team · · via Hugging Face

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Artificial intelligence

The Linux Foundation adopts a verifiable identity standard for AI agents

The Linux Foundation welcomed Agent Name Service as an open project for naming, verifying, and discovering AI agents through existing DNS and certificate infrastructure. The specification covers registration, versioning, DNS publication, public-log auditing, integrity monitoring, and agent-to-agent authentication. Eleven organizations support the project, including Cisco, Cloudflare, DigiCert, GoDaddy, Salesforce, and OWASP.

Aster editorial team · · via Linux Foundation

Artificial intelligence

Railway says an attack primarily targeted keys for AI services

Railway published its final report on an October attack and said AI provider keys were the primary target. The company estimates that the attacker could have decrypted variables from up to 1.85 % of its workspaces and that linked-account tokens for 1,852 users were among the affected data. Railway estimates roughly $740,000 in unauthorized use of stolen keys and says it will cover charges that providers do not refund.

Aster editorial team · · via Railway

Artificial intelligence

Researchers link an AI agent to the theft of Tajik government documents

Security firm CloudSek told Reuters that a group linked to Kazakhstan used the open-source Hermes framework to steal more than 2,000 documents related to Tajikistan's national security. The company says the agent performed reconnaissance, wrote tools, downloaded files, and prepared reports under human instructions. Kazakh and Tajik officials did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment, and researchers were unable to contact the named group.

Aster editorial team · · via Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to customers and AI Ultra subscribers

Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available to paying developers and enterprises through its API and began rolling it out to Google AI Ultra subscribers. The company positions the model for complex coding, scientific research, document analysis, and cybersecurity, while recommending Gemini 4 Argon for most everyday tasks. It also previewed /swarm in Google Antigravity, which coordinates multiple agents from a single instruction.

Aster editorial team · · via Google

Today's games

4 challenges that change every midnight. The same for everyone, so you can compare with friends.

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Hidden constellation

Stars appear one by one. Guess the constellation in six tries or fewer.

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Cosmic word

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Which planet am I?

Every clue makes it clearer: planets, moons and stars.

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Note of the day

Listen to a short melody and guess it note by note.

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Artificial intelligence

Anthropic introduces Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with different access levels

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, two versions of the same model aimed at difficult technical work, Xataka reported. Fable includes safeguards for high-risk cybersecurity and biology tasks and is generally available, while Mythos is restricted to verified organizations. Anthropic says both produce responses up to 30 % faster than their predecessors and improve coding, reasoning, and vision.

Aster editorial team · · via Xataka

Artificial intelligence

IBM and Microsoft launch Imagine Enterprise to deploy agents in businesses

IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise, a platform for building, operating, and governing AI agents connected to internal data and processes. IBM contributes more than 6,000 prebuilt agents and assets, while Microsoft provides cloud, identity, security, and development services. The offering includes engineering support from both companies and begins with frameworks for financial services, insurance, and retail.

Aster editorial team · · via IBM

Artificial intelligence

Australia will require AI incident reports and create a safety regulator

Australia will require companies to report misaligned behavior and cyber incidents involving their AI systems, Reuters reported. It will also create a regulator empowered to review security controls, evaluate models, and impose penalties. The measures follow an official review after an OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare statistics portal without authorization; OpenAI said the access was unintentional and found no evidence that patient records were exposed.

Aster editorial team · · via Reuters

Artificial intelligence

TSMC approves investments of up to $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI

TSMC's board approved investments of up to $500 million in Anthropic and another $500 million in OpenAI, Reuters reported. The chipmaker plans to buy Anthropic shares at its public-offering price and OpenAI preferred stock. TSMC is combining its role as an industry supplier with financial stakes in two AI model developers.

Aster editorial team · · via Reuters

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Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Upwork find broader AI projects with larger budgets

An OpenAI and Upwork study found that AI-related freelance projects combine less common tasks and carry larger fixed-price budgets and more work hours than comparable postings. From early 2023 to late 2025, the mix of tasks in those postings became 45 % more diverse, equivalent to moving from about 15 equally common tasks to roughly 21. The authors caution that ChatGPT use alone does not explain the changes: 43 of 63 categories followed the main pattern, while 20 moved in the opposite direction.

Aster editorial team · · via OpenAI

Artificial intelligence

Google introduces TPU 8tx and 8i Max to broaden its inference options

Google announced TPU 8tx, a confidential-inference system built on the same silicon as TPU 8t and paired with servers using fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors. The company says it can deliver up to twice the latency improvement over 8t with a near-zero performance penalty from confidential computing. It also introduced TPU 8i Max, which combines two 8i chips and doubles compute, SRAM, and HBM bandwidth compared with 8i.

Aster editorial team · · via Google

Artificial intelligence

Meta expands AI age estimation for teen accounts worldwide

Meta announced the worldwide expansion of its age-estimation system on Instagram to detect accounts that may belong to teenagers even when they list an adult birth date. When the system identifies a likely teen account, it automatically applies Teen Account protections. The company says the move will bring millions more young people under those safeguards, while its Facebook rollout continues and Threads is scheduled to receive them later in 2026.

Aster editorial team · · via Meta

Artificial intelligence

LG AI Research opens a free API for K-EXAONE 2.5

LG AI Research made K-EXAONE 2.5 available through a free API on its EXAONE platform for developers, startups, companies, and research institutions. The lab describes the model as an update focused on technical verification and agent tasks. Its published results include 74.6 on AutomationBench Openset, 59.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, 78.0 on BrowseComp, and 77.3 on Claw-Eval.

Aster editorial team · · via LG AI Research

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, a model that found 81 critical flaws in Firefox

It’s OpenAI’s model for finding software flaws, building working exploits and suggesting patches. The company says it uncovered 81 critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, which Mozilla has fixed, and in the Linux kernel it reproduced 1,724 flaws and built exploits for 948. OpenAI rates it a “Critical” cybersecurity risk and for now offers it only to select Daybreak Red customers. The figures come from the company itself, and there is no independent testing yet.

Aster editorial team · · via The Decoder

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AI glossary

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Language model

An AI system trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate language.

AI

Token

The small chunk of text (a word, part of a word or a symbol) that a language model reads and writes.

AI

Hallucination

When an AI model makes up facts, quotes or details and presents them confidently as if they were true.

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Open weights

An AI model whose trained parameters are published so anyone can download and run it.

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AI agent

An AI system that does more than answer: it plans steps and uses tools to complete a task on its own.

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Context window

The maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a language model can take into account at once.

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