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OpenAI Cyber program: physical login keys mandatory for consumer plans

OpenAI Daybreak, the program that allows certain models to be used for cyber security work, requires hardening of consumer accounts since October 1. The measures required include Advanced Account Security to be enabled. Moreover, OpenAI require user to “add at least one supported physical FIDO2 credential, such as YubiKey or Google Titan”. This ... Read more...

Apple Foundation Model 3 & Siri AI

Siri AI is rolling out to macOS 27, even in the EU - despite this kind of Apple Intelligence not coming to European iPhones or iPads, at least not initially. Along with the Siri AI system, macOS exhibits direct access to AFM3 Core - the LLM at the foundation. AFM3 command line client macOS 27 comes with two primary ways to interact with this new... Read more...

OpenRouter AI inference hub pitfalls

The author of Olly, an AI assistant that has transacted over 6 million messages via OpenRouter, describes on his blog several of the pitfalls that plague users of AI inference hub OpenRouter: - “ The same model will benchmark very differently”: OpenRouter itself publishes results for GPQA-Diamond and TAU-Bench (under “AutoExacto Benchmarks”) - a... Read more...

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 has rolled out to the API and several ChatGPT subscription types (including the EU), and coming to the rest really soon. (I have updated MyChatty to support GPT-6 as well, including Pro mode) The System Card is here, with extensive notes on the model’s safety/robustness/alignment properties. OpenAI report improvements in resistance against... Read more...

153 million US Driver Licenses leaked by Identity Proofing company

IDScan.net, an in-person ID proofing company, reportedly (Brian Krebs blog) is behind a large-scale leak of identity data including facial photographs (including ultra-violet scans). Its customers include Hertz, FedEx and alcohol- and cannabis dispensaries, across 20.000 locations. As well as Canadian citizens, high profile Americans like Pete H... Read more...