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Fix AI Coding Agent Problems With Skills, Rules, and Hooks
Practical fixes for AI coding agents that fake completion, skip tests, or ignore rules, using devil's advocate reviews, evidence, and hooks.
AI Labs Are Using AI to Speed Up Research. Here's What METR Found
METR's assessment of Anthropic shows AI-assisted research roughly doubling progress speed, an early sign of recursive self-improvement at AI labs.
Is Anthropic's AI Now Speeding Up Its Own Development?
A look at benchmark data and independent reporting on whether Claude models are accelerating Anthropic's own AI research and training pace.
Arete-27B Benchmark Results: Propaganda Score vs Capability
Arete-27B's fact score climbed from 2.32 to 2.98 and propaganda answers fell to 0.9%, with benchmarks showing no real capability loss.
Arete-27B: Nous Research's Western-Aligned Fine-Tune of Qwen3.8-27B
Nous Research's Arete-27B retrains Qwen3.8-27B to cut CCP-framed answers from 22% to 0.9% while holding capability benchmarks steady.
Binance's Internal AI Tool Became a Hacker's Backdoor. Here's How
How attackers reportedly compromised a Binance engineer's device and used an internal AI tool to pivot toward wallet infrastructure in a major crypto theft.
Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5: KingBench Coding Results Explained
Claude Fable 5.2 scored 70% on KingBench 4 coding tests, beating Opus 5.5's 57.8%. Here's what it built right, and where it broke.
Claude Mythos 5.2: Inside Anthropic's Restricted Cybersecurity Model
Mythos 5.2 is Anthropic's cybersecurity-tuned Claude model, released alongside Opus 5.2 but limited to vetted organizations only.
Claude Opus 5.2 Benchmarks: What Anthropic's New Flagship Can Actually Do
Claude Opus 5.2 tops the Valves index and Arc AGI 3, builds an OS from scratch, designs hardware, and formalizes Fermat's last theorem in 30 hours.
Claude Opus 5.2 and the Physics Proofs: What Actually Happened
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.2 solved two open black hole physics problems and formalized Fermat's last theorem. Here's what that really means.
DGX Spark vs GMK Evo X5 Pro: Which Mini PC Wins for Local LLMs?
NVIDIA DGX Spark vs GMK Tech Evo X5 Pro tested on GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4, and long-context coding agents. Here's what the numbers show.
How to Run Long Unattended AI Tasks with Gemini 4 Carbon
Practical prompting techniques for multi-hour Gemini 4 Carbon runs: state files, fresh reviewer agents, minimum pass counts, and self-checks.
Gemini 4 Carbon Builds Full Native Mac Apps From One Prompt
Gemini 4 Carbon one-shots signed, native Swift macOS apps from simple prompts, raising real questions for small software businesses.
Gemini 4 Carbon: What Google's New Frontier Coding Model Actually Does
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's strongest model yet, built for multi-day agentic coding, 3D web dev, and precision knowledge work. Here's what it does.
Jensen Huang, Mega Speed, and 600,000 Stranded Nvidia Chips Explained
Nvidia's board is probing Jensen Huang's ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence contact as chip export questions and the Mega Speed case collide.
Qwen4 Max Hands-On: Testing Alibaba's New Model on Real Tasks
Hands-on tests of Qwen4 Max covering animation generation, 82-language naming, satellite image reasoning, and visual safety judgment.
Running GLM 5.3 and Other Big LLMs on the GMK Tech Evo X5 Pro
How to configure BIOS memory, dual-boot Linux, and fix GPU bottlenecks on the GMK Tech Evo X5 Pro to run 150GB+ models like GLM 5.3.
Underdog Woof TTS: Run This 40MB Voice Model Locally on CPU
A hands-on look at Underdog Woof, a 40MB text-to-speech model that runs on CPU with no GPU, plus word-error-rate testing results.
5 AI Website Design Patterns That Actually Convert Customers
Five proven design patterns, from copy to color to motion, that turn AI-built websites into pages that actually convert visitors.
Why Did Anthropic Reportedly Cap Fable 5.2's Research Abilities?
Anthropic reportedly limited Fable 5.2's AI-research skills during training. Here's the theory behind the cap and what it means for AI progress.
Claude Code's October 2025 Update: 23 Releases, Explained
Claude Code shipped 23 updates in October 2025, from Haiku 5.5 to idle compaction to background agents. Here's what each one changes.
How to Use Claude Code to Speed Up Your PC or Mac for Free
Learn how Claude Code can diagnose slow PC performance, find misconfigured hardware, and fix cable issues, no paid tools required.
Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: What Anthropic Actually Shipped
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 top the benchmarks. Here's what's new, how the two models differ, and where they fit against Opus 5.5.
Claude Fable 5.2 Pricing: API Costs, Plans, and Launch Week Limits
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens via API, with access starting on paid Claude plans.
