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Richard LawlerTwo hours ago

AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5.

On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 showed progress well above previous trends on cybersecurity testing. Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH, was used to discover 16 CVEs in this week’s Patch Tuesday updates and is the leader on the CyberGym security evaluation framework.

graph showing the average number of steps completed on a cybersecuirty benchmark comparing various models across how many tokens spent

Image: AISI

Jay PetersMay 13

The live-action Zelda movie is now coming out a week earlier.

The new premiere date is April 30th, 2027. Per Nintendo’s X account:

This is Miyamoto. I would like to let you know that the worldwide theatrical release date for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda has been moved up to April 30, 2027, from May 7. The team is working hard to deliver the film to everyone as soon as possible. There’s less than a year to go until release, so thank you for waiting.

It’s the second release date shift for the film.

Jay PetersMay 13

People are already making the new Steam Controller “sing.”

Back in 2015, somebody wrote a program to make the original Steam Controller “sing” Doom’s theme song and other music. Catch up to 2026, and people are already making music with the new Steam Controller. Here’s “Still Alive” from Portal, and I love this rendition of the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme.

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

Emma RothMay 13

Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US

Lauren FeinerMay 13

Hayden FieldMay 13

Musk left the country with President Trump despite a judge’s orders.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the judge presiding over Musk v. Altman, had told Musk when he left the stand that he was not excused from the trial and that he was still under “recall status,” meaning he should stay nearby and ready to testify. But he’s currently in Beijing…

Elon Musk’s post

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YouTube is courting creators — and sponsors — with streaming shows

Mia SatoMay 13

Stevie BonifieldMay 13

Qualcomm is getting in on the Googlebook action.

Intel chips won’t be the only CPUs powering Google’s new Android-based laptops. Qualcomm also confirmed on Wednesday that it’s working on Googlebooks, but, like Intel, hasn’t given any details about the specific chips the laptops will feature:

Something special is coming this fall. In partnership with @Google, we’ve created Googlebook, a category of premium, powerful laptops built for intelligent experiences.

AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too

Stevie BonifieldMay 13

Elizabeth LopattoMay 13

Microsoft and OpenAI rest.

There is no rebuttal case from Musk’s team. We will get closing statements tomorrow.

Richard LawlerMay 13

Shutterstock is paying $35 million to settle illegal subscription and cancellation allegations.

Even with the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule vacated (but possibly coming back?), it has reached a settlement over Shutterstock’s subscriptions that allegedly required a phone, chat, or email conversation to get out of.

…Shutterstock advertised its on-demand packs as “Best for a one-time project,” with “no commitment,” but failed to adequately disclose that these packs automatically renewed when the last download in the pack was used and—until early 2024—that they automatically renewed after one year.