Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...
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Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930

What are the proper rules of etiquette for a gentleman when calling upon a lady at her home? And what are the rules for ...
TechJuice

This Popular AI Tool Was Hacked in Just 36 Hours (Here’s What Attackers Stole)

A critical pre-authentication SQL injection vulnerability in BerriAI’s LiteLLM Python package came under active exploitation ...
The Hacker News

LiteLLM CVE-2026-42208 SQL Injection Exploited within 36 Hours of Disclosure

CVE-2026-42208 exploited within 36 hours of disclosure, exposing LiteLLM credentials, risking cloud account compromise.
IEEE

BiLoRA: Almost-orthogonal Parameter Spaces for Continual Learning

Abstract: Continual learning requires models to learn tasks sequentially while maintaining a delicate balance between stability (retaining knowledge of previous tasks) and plasticity (adapting to new ...
SecurityWeek

UNC6692 Uses Email Bombing, Social Engineering to Deploy ‘Snow’ Malware

UNC6692 relies on email bombing and social engineering to infect victims with Snow malware: Snowbelt, Snowglaze, and ...

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

DeepSeek's quest to keep frontier AI models open is of benefit to the entire planet of potential AI users, especially ...
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Level up your Python skills with functions

Python functions are more than just reusable code blocks—they’re the foundation for writing clean, modular, and maintainable programs. By mastering functions, you can break down complex problems, ...