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Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
Sandia National Laboratories is testing NextSilicon’s reconfigurable accelerator, a chip that rewires itself to the software it runs, promising big power savings over Nvidia GPUs without costly code rewrites.
Cloudflare secures a fifth of the internet using a wall of 100 lava lamps, whose ever-shifting blobs generate the true randomness that strong encryption keys depend on.
Security researchers have caught hackers using large language models to weaponise hijacked AI infrastructure, turning compromised servers into a self-propagating botnet that mines crypto and launches attacks.
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