Hypercore Intelligence Daily News Brief. QE-5 opening signal.

At the top of the brief: Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google; Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts; Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds.

Our top story today: Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google. The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

In our next story: Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts. The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

Elsewhere in the sector: Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds. Anthropic surveyed nearly 52,000 Americans about their hopes and fears around AI. Sixty-four percent fear job losses, and 56 percent worry about losing the ability to think for themselves. Daily AI users are far less concerned. Still, most people reject AI in their own workplace, even for tasks they think it can handle. The article Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Turning now to another development: OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent. OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage cap mid-session, you can cash in a saved reset right away instead of waiting. Users on the Go, Plus, Pro, and Business plans each get one free reset to start. Plus and Pro users can also invite friends to unlock extra resets. The article OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent appeared first on The...

Also on the grid: SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know. TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

In operations news: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance. Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5.7 percent at double the token price. Safety filters with fallback routing push costs even higher. The article Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance appeared first on The Decoder .

Looking next at deployment signals: When PyMuPDF Can’t See the Table: Parse PDFs for RAG with Azure Layout. Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5bis] - The same relational tables. Native table cells. OCR for scanned pages and images. Captions and headings without regex. The post When PyMuPDF Can’t See the Table: Parse PDFs for RAG with Azure Layout appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Another item on the watchlist: Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm. Moonshot AI's Kimi Work is a local desktop agent for macOS and Windows. It runs a 300-sub-agent swarm, drives your logged-in browser via WebBridge, and schedules background jobs. The post Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm appeared first on MarkTechPost .

In our next story: Why Decade-Old Residual Connections Still Power All of AI (And Why That’s a Problem). For nearly a decade, this part of neural networks barely changed. DeepSeek is trying to reinvent it. The post Why Decade-Old Residual Connections Still Power All of AI (And Why That’s a Problem) appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Elsewhere in the sector: Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude. Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. The models use a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer backbone, shipping under Apache 2.0. They stay competitive with comparable Transformer VLMs while cutting time-to-first-token by about an order of magnitude. The post Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Turning now to another development: A Harness for Every Task: Putting a Team of Claudes on One Job. Claude can now write its own harness on the fly, custom-built for the task at hand. The post A Harness for Every Task: Putting a Team of Claudes on One Job appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Finally today: A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes. In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end 3D medical image segmentation pipeline using MONAI to segment the spleen on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset. We work with volumetric CT scans, apply medical imaging transformations such as orientation alignment, voxel-spacing normalization, intensity windowing, foreground cropping, and patch-based sampling, and then train a 3D UNet model […] The post A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes...

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