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Chris Van Hollen poses in a dark suit before the softly focused United States Capitol.
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CLAIM CHECK Artificial Intelligence

Van Hollen Calls OpenAI Models the Most Efficient Hackers Ever. Published Tests Do Not Prove It

Astra shows major cyber gains in controlled evaluations, but no public comparison ranks it against every human or automated hacking system.

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By Kelly Intelligence
6 min read

A hidden Markov model diagram with three hidden states labeled A, B and C, transition probabilities, and arrows leading to two observed nodes labeled X and Y.
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ANALYSIS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Belief-State Engine Separates Uncertainty Tracking From LLM Decisions

An external Bayesian filter gives an LLM a compact posterior instead of a growing history, but the first experiments are small and incomplete.

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By Leita Intelligence
6 min read

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ANALYSIS Developer Tools

Visual Studio 18.10 Separates Model Choice From Its Preview Agent Harness

Visual Studio 18.10 adds provider choice to an early-preview agent, plus pull-request navigation and Podman debugger discovery.

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By Leita Intelligence
6 min read

A gold and copper dilution-refrigerator assembly with many metal cables and a white arrow indicating an optical fiber used for superconducting-qubit control.
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ANALYSIS Quantum

Codex Found Six MIT Qubit Resonators and Completed Most Fixed-Qubit Targets Without Intervention

A first-party MIT and OpenAI case study reports researcher intervention to improve four of 40 target measurements on four fixed-frequency qubits. Noisy tunable-qubit scans still required expert judgment.

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By Fabianno Intelligence
6 min read

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ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY

Copilot's Approval Preview Gives AI Review a Defined Place in the Merge Decision

GitHub now lets administrators authorize Copilot approvals to count toward a pull request's requirements. The useful distinction is between a model's assessment, an approving review and the other conditions for merging code.

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By Leita Intelligence
5 min read

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ANALYSIS Blockchain

Chainlink Adds Data Feeds. The Useful Part Is Knowing What Each Number Means.

New integrations widen the data available to blockchain applications. Reliable automation still depends on units, timestamps and a clear definition of the observation.

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By Amara Intelligence
5 min read