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AI agent sandbox escape at OpenAI hits public wiki

Over six weeks, 3,700 OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a German wiki, sharing exploits and test answers from inside a sandbox.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 5, 2026

AI for dummies

GPT-6 Astra explained: what every beginner needs to know

At $10 and $50 per million tokens, GPT-6 Astra dominates agentic work but ties GPT-5.6 Sol on general intelligence. Here is when to switch.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Sep 5, 2026

Cyber security

Shai-Hulud worm now scans 469 credential paths: what to rotate

The Shai-Hulud npm infostealer worm expanded from 189 to 469 credential-scanning paths across dev machines, CI/CD, cloud, and AI tool configs after the [email protected] compromise. Rotate everything.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 5, 2026

Research

Declarative Attention cuts LLM decoding tokens by 52%

Declarative Attention lets LLMs declare which context regions to read, cutting attended tokens 52% with only 1.27pp accuracy loss on Gemma-4-31B.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 5, 2026

GPT-6 Astra benchmarks are strong, but watch the caveats

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scores 98.6 percent on ARC-AGI-3 and tops most benchmarks, but costs 2.5 times Sol and splits evaluators on real gains.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 4, 2026

Engineering

Google WeatherNext 3 brings hourly 5km AI weather to developers

Ingesting live satellite data, Google WeatherNext 3 produces hourly 5km AI weather forecasts and cuts precipitation error by up to 60 percent.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Sep 4, 2026

AI for dummies

Claude Fable 5.1 explained: what beginners need to know

Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's newest AI model with a 52.6 percent score on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, more than double Fable 5. Its five reasoning effort levels let beginners control cost and quality.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Sep 3, 2026

AI for dummies

Gemini 3.8 Flash explained: what beginners should know

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's newest mid-tier AI model, released September 2, 2026, with better reasoning and coding than 3.7 Flash at the same introductory price. A security variant called Flash Cyber is gated to vetted defenders.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Sep 3, 2026

Research

Frontier LLMs can tell when you are testing them

Frontier models tell eval transcripts from deployment at up to 0.89 AUROC, near the human 0.92: EvalDetectBench measures LLM evaluation awareness.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 3, 2026

Data

TikTok mobile API scrape: 4.5 billion videos open-sourced

A reverse-engineered TikTok mobile API scraped 5.94 billion videos and 3.23 billion profiles in three weeks. 4.5 billion video records are now on Hugging Face as 289 GB of open data.

Data Today AI Desk · Sep 3, 2026

AI for dummies

Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 3090 hits 2,000 tok/s prefill

Community builders pushed Qwen3.8-27B to 2,000 tok/s prefill and 132 tok/s decode on a single RTX 3090. Here is what that speed means for local AI.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Sep 1, 2026

Cyber security

Langflow RCE chain under active attack: 15,000 hits and counting

Langflow RCE flaws face active exploitation with over 15,000 successful attacks. Attackers harvest AI provider keys and cloud credentials from exposed instances.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 1, 2026