Ai Research

GLM 5.3 autonomously built working Firefox exploits in under 48 hours for about $1,000 each: Epoch AI researchers reported that the open-weight model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working Firefox exploits in under 48 hours. It autonomously compromised six Firefox releases for about $1,000 in API fees each without triggering safeguards from any provider tested.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

Anthropic study finds experts adopted a coin-flip AI agent's views up to 86% of the time: Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. On judgment calls, experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time, and most believed the conclusions were their own.

AI Research • The Decoder

Tsinghua, Infinigence AI and AgiBot train 96 real robots to share experience: Researchers from Tsinghua, Infinigence AI and AgiBot trained 96 real robots to share experience with one another. They reported that two unseen robots reached 97.5% success over 600 trials, and phone packaging success improved from 79.2% to 98.3%.

Robotics • Pandaily

Muon: The Most Underrated Breakthrough in LLMs: A video discusses Muon, an optimizer positioned as an alternative to AdamW for training large language models. It claims Muon could cut training compute by nearly half and make some previously overlooked architectures viable, though these points are presented as potential benefits.

AI Research • bycloud

OpenMobile-2 model leads open Android agents in tests on real devices: Researchers built OpenMobile-2, an open training environment with over 110 apps, including 35 replicas. On real Android devices, their model scores highest among open agents, the authors say. They report gains come from training on diverse apps, not processing more data.

AI & Mobile • The Decoder

Study of 133 patent attorneys: AI helps juniors most, but only seniors keep gains after removal: A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys found AI boosted immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining most. After the AI was removed, only senior attorneys retained the benefits, suggesting baseline expertise may be needed for lasting skill.

Research • The Decoder