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Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study.Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical patterns it learned during training. This can cause a model to fail unexpectedly when deployed on new tasks.The researchers found that models can mistakenly link certain sentence patterns to specific topics, so an LLM might give a convincing answer by recognizing familiar phrasing instead of understanding the question.Their experiments showed that even the most powerful LLMs can make this mistake.This shortcoming could reduce the reliability of LLMs that perform tasks like…
In the week leading up to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the Pentagon was waging a different battle: a fight with the AI company Anthropic over its flagship AI model, Claude.That conflict came to a head on Friday, when Trump said that the federal government would immediately stop using Anthropic’s AI tools. Nonetheless, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon made use of those tools when it launched strikes against Iran on Saturday morning.Were experts surprised to see Claude on the front lines?“Not at all,” Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a…
Valve is warning that its upcoming Steam Machine hardware may not arrive as soon as originally expected. In a recent update shared with the community, the company said global shortages of memory and storage components have forced it to revisit both the launch timing and pricing of its new hardware lineup. Valve The announcement covers Valve’s entire upcoming hardware family: the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame VR headset, and a new Steam Controller. When the company first revealed these products in late 2025, the plan was to provide concrete release dates and pricing details by now. Instead, Valve says the…
Introduction Since late 2025, the generative AI landscape has exploded with new releases. OpenAI’s GPT‑5.2, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro and MiniMax’s M2.5 signal a turning point: models are no longer one‑size‑fits‑all tools but specialized engines optimized for distinct tasks. The stakes are high—teams need to decide which model will tackle their coding projects, research papers, spreadsheets or multimodal analyses. At the same time, costs are rising and models diverge on licensing, context lengths, safety profiles and operational complexity. This article provides a detailed, up‑to‑date exploration of the leading models as of March 2026. We compare benchmarks,…
As part of a Year in Review blog detailing changes Valve made to Steam in 2025, the company shared a minor update on its hardware plans that doesn’t sound good for anyone hoping to buy a Steam Machine, Steam Controller or Steam Frame in 2026. Specifically, the company is now opening up the possibility its new hardware won’t ship this year at all.In February, when Valve acknowledged the ongoing memory and storage shortage had delayed the launch of its hardware and could lead to higher prices, the company was still committing to a (fairly wide) window of when its hardware…
Key Takeaways LOTL attacks use trusted tools like PowerShell, WMI, and RDP, making malicious activity appear identical to normal administrative behavior inside OT networks. OT environments are especially vulnerable due to legacy systems, limited logging, and inherited IT/OT trust relationships. Signature-based tools fail because LOTL introduces no malware, only misuse of legitimate capabilities. Detection requires behavioral baselines, passive OT monitoring, deep session inspection, and ICS-specific threat intelligence. Without comprehensive OT visibility, dwell time expands dramatically, increasing operational and safety risk. The most dangerous attacker inside your OT network right now may not have brought a single piece of malware with…
Portrait Light: You can change up the lighting in your portrait selfies after you take them by opening them up in Google Photos, tapping the Edit button, and heading to Actions > Portrait Light. This adds an artificial light you can place anywhere in the photo to brighten up your face and erase that 5 o’clock shadow. Use the slider at the bottom to tweak the strength of the light. It also works on older Portrait mode photos you may have captured. It works only on faces.Health and Accessibility FeaturesCough & Snore Detection (Tensor G2 and newer): On the Pixel…
Alibaba’s team has released Qwen3.5, the latest generation of open-weight large language and multimodal models. This series pushes the boundaries of performance and efficiency, enabling high-end capabilities on dramatically reduced compute budgets. The release aligns with an industry-wide pivot toward efficient, deployable AI: models that deliver advanced reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, and native multimodality while fitting on consumer hardware, edge devices, servers with modest resources, or even local/privacy-focused setups. Qwen3.5 spans a broad family of sizes and architectures, from ultra-compact dense models under 1 billion parameters to massive sparse MoE flagships exceeding 300 billion total parameters. This tiered lineup lets…
Microsoft has confirmed what many have speculated: that its next-generation gaming console will be a hybrid piece of hardware that can play Xbox games as well as Windows PC games.There aren’t yet any details on a release window, pricing or specs, but the new head of Microsoft’s gaming division, Xbox CEO Asha Shar, wrote in a post on X on Thursday that Project Helix is the code name and that “Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.”Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox…
Ravie LakshmananMar 06, 2026Threat Intelligence / Cyber Espionage The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools to strike targets with various implants. The activity is designed to produce a “high-volume, mediocre mass of implants” that are developed using lesser-known programming languages like Nim, Zig, and Crystal and rely on trusted services like Slack, Discord, Supabase, and Google Sheets to fly under the radar, according to new findings from Bitdefender. “Rather than a breakthrough in technical sophistication, we are seeing a transition toward AI-assisted malware industrialization that allows…