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NSA Loses Anthropic Mythos Access After June Export-Control Order

NSA Loses Anthropic Mythos Access After June Export-Control Order

NSA analysts were testing Anthropic's Mythos inside classified systems when Washington's June export-control order cut off at least some access. The model had found vulnerabilities within hours in a controlled red-team exercise, after Sen. Mark Warner relayed a sharper claim that Mythos broke into almost all classified systems. The correction changes the story from runaway breach to authorized test, but it leaves a harder problem for U.S. cyber defense and Anthropic's government fight.

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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests
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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests

Five reviewers ran GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code head-to-head on real coding tasks. GLM-5.2 came out with a narrow edge on design, cost, and code that held up to a second look.

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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills
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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills

A Claude Code skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md file, but the GitHub tooling around it has split into distinct jobs. anthropics/skills and skill-creator handle authoring and testing, claude-plugins-official handles versioned distribution, runkids/skillshare syncs one library across Codex and OpenCode, and mattpocock/skills packages engineering-process patterns. Start local, and review any third-party skill like a code dependency before install.

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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis
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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis named Z.ai's GLM-5.2 the top open-weight model on its Intelligence Index, scoring 51 to lead every open peer. Independent reviewers clocked it near Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on build tasks at roughly five times lower cost, though the model burns 43,000 output tokens per benchmark task. GLM-5.2 ships under an MIT license with a 1-million-token context window and open weights on Hugging Face.

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AI Agent Skill Managers Are a Supply-Chain Surface Most of Them Don't Guard

Three open-source managers for AI agent skills each hit 2,000 GitHub stars in months. But a skill is natural-language intent an agent runs with full file and shell access, and only one of the three scans skill files for attacks before an agent reads them.

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A Free App From Berlin Is Out-Engineering the $81 Million Dictation Leader

Voice dictation became the rare AI tool that changed how people write. As the speech models commoditize, the fight has moved to the layer above them, where a free app built by a developer who cannot type competes with the $81 million leader and the operating systems closing in.

Mistral OCR 4 Ships Bounding Boxes for 170-Language Document AI
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Mistral OCR 4 Ships Bounding Boxes for 170-Language Document AI

Mistral OCR 4 adds bounding boxes, block labels, and word-level confidence scores across 170 languages. The model changes what document AI returns, and why enterprise search teams may care.

Mistral OCR 4 turns document extraction into page structure, adding bounding boxes, block labels, and word-level confidence scores across 170 languages. Mistral says human reviewers preferred it 72% of the time, while early customers cite lower cost and latency. The release also changes the API answer itself, giving search and compliance systems coordinates they can route, cite, and review. The hard part is whether enterprise software is ready to use them.

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