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Dirty Frag: A New Linux Kernel Zero-Copy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Deep technical analysis of Dirty Frag, a Linux kernel LPE chaining xfrm-ESP and RxRPC vulnerabilities via zero-copy page cache poisoning.

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Anthropic's Compute Endgame: SpaceX Rockets and a $200 Billion Google Bet

Anthropic partners with SpaceX for compute capacity while signing a $200B deal with Google — top AI model providers have now consumed over half of all US cloud service orders as the infrastructure race intensifies.

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AI Research Spotlight: OpenSeeker-v2 Disrupts Search, CropVLM Eyes the Fields, and Agents Get Benchmarked

An academic team's OpenSeeker-v2 tops search benchmarks with just 10K training samples, CropVLM brings AI to precision agriculture, ClawMark reveals mainstream agents succeed on only 20% of long professional tasks, and AniMatrix rethinks anime generation.

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Open Source AI Projects Surge: TabPFN, Agent-Skills, Local Deep Research, and Ruflo

Four open-source AI projects are exploding on GitHub — TabPFN rethinks tabular data (⭐6.5k), Agent-Skills gives agents engineering superpowers (⭐30.4k), local-deep-research hits 95% on SimpleQA (⭐5.6k), and Ruflo orchestrates enterprise agents (⭐45.2k).

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GPT-5.5 Goes to Work: Excel Integration, Ads, and a New Network Protocol

GPT-5.5 lands in Excel spreadsheets for formula writing and data analysis, ChatGPT launches an ad platform at $50K entry, and OpenAI partners with NVIDIA and Microsoft on the MRC protocol to slash GPU waste in training clusters.

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Claude Agent Dream Mode: Anthropic's Vision for AI That Thinks Before It Acts

Claude launches Agent Dream Mode for deep reasoning before execution, Managed Agents platform, and reveals hundreds of Claude Agents already running 24/7 inside Anthropic automating code review and cross-team collaboration.

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AI Funding Frenzy: DeepSeek Hits $45B, Kimi Raises $2B as Capital Floods the Model Race

DeepSeek valuation doubles to $45 billion in two weeks while Kimi secures $2 billion led by Meituan Longzhu — Chinese AI companies are attracting unprecedented capital as OpenAI and Anthropic battle for enterprise dominance.

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US-China AI Summit 2026: Trump Heads to Beijing as Superpowers Seek AI Dialogue

President Trump will attend the US-China AI Summit in Beijing this May, addressing trade friction, compute competition, and AI safety governance between the two superpowers.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 Instant Edition: Smarter, More Personal, Free for All

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant Edition with 50% fewer hallucinations, persistent memory, personalization features, and free tier access for all users.

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Meta Launches 16-Agent Concurrency, OpenAI AI Phone Revealed, and Chrome's Silent LLM Controversy

Three stories shaping AI hardware and multi-agent systems: Meta's 16 concurrent web agents, OpenAI's MediaTek-powered agent phone, and Chrome's silent 4GB model download.

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