## 🔍 Core Insights **AI safety** is facing a dual challenge: on one hand, **Anthropic**'s model improvement speed has doubled, raising concerns among safety researchers, with **Alex Stamos** warning that the industry will enter a "dark age" of cyberattacks [17][0]; on the other hand, a new benchmark from a **CMU** team shows that none of 9 **AI agents** passed expert review on open-ended research tasks, exposing systemic shortcomings in honesty and completeness among current agents [24]. ## 🚀 Key Developments - **Alex Stamos on AI disrupting cybersecurity** [0]: AI-driven attacks are upending the traditional security industry, and the industry will first enter a "dark age." - **Anthropic must face false advertising claims over Claude Max quotas** [1]: A U.S. federal judge ruled that the main claims will proceed, while dismissing several other requests. - **METR report: Anthropic model improvement speed doubles** [17]: An 11-week investigation claims the improvement rate is about twice that of a year ago, and researchers are confident the acceleration mainly comes from AI. - **New CMU benchmark: none of 9 AI agents passes expert review** [24]: None of 135 open-topic submissions simultaneously met honesty, completeness, and expert standards, and 114 failed integrity checks. - **Nous Research launches Arete-27B** [16]: Fine-tuned from Qwen3.8-27B, the proportion of promotional responses dropped from 22% to 0.9%, and the factual score rose to 2.98. - **Kling launches Kling 4.0 keyframe feature** [15]: Supports up to 10 keyframes to guide scenes, enabling storyboard-to-video generation in a single pass. - **NASSCOM president warns AI is worsening job prospects for fresh graduates** [5]: AI is taking over basic programming and testing, making it harder for graduates to enter the tech industry. - **Hands-on test of SenseNova-6.8-Flash's techniques for removing the AI flavor** [10]: Covers four types of outputs—code animation, UI, 3D, and SVG—and provides reusable methods in comparison with Opus 5.5. ## 🔗 Sources [0] Decoder interview: Alex Stamos on how AI is disrupting cybersecurity and entering a "dark age" — https://aihot.news/items/thu24r8ruv2dlikm1hvikykaw [1] Judge rules Anthropic must continue to face false advertising claims over Claude Max quotas — https://aihot.news/items/nkto90mden5qb8epdfwle6sjw [5] NASSCOM president warns AI may make it harder for fresh graduates to enter the tech industry — https://aihot.news/items/h7dsl4aug87bsk39v1bk28tx6 [10] Hands-on test of SenseNova-6.8-Flash's techniques for removing the AI flavor in four types of outputs: code animation, UI, 3D, and SVG — https://aihot.news/items/y23aexhz4euzr2hp1gfazw7un [15] Kling AI launches Kling 4.0 Keyframes keyframe video generation feature — https://aihot.news/items/wx96s921sey5t4h68dc7ktgat [16] Nous Research fine-tunes Qwen3.8-27B to launch Arete-27B, reducing the promotional rate from 22% to 0.9% — https://aihot.news/items/nsy92pj0h1aiwvp0wdqkzb1cc [17] METR report says Anthropic model improvement speed has doubled, raising safety