Working Collaboratively To Fight Scams In Asia Pacific

Google.org will provide $6 million to support scam-resilience work in Asia Pacific, alongside product protections and industry partnerships.

Jill Hazelbaker Takes On Corporate Affairs Leadership Role At OpenAI

OpenAI appointed Jill Hazelbaker as chief corporate affairs officer, but has not disclosed her start date, responsibilities or reporting line.

GPT-6 Astra Edited Another Model. Was It A Repair Or An Upgrade?

A reported GPT-6 Astra weight edit raised Qwen3.5-0.8B’s MATH-500 score, but reduced rather than eliminated looping.

What StateBench Reveals About Language Models And Long-Document State Tracking

StateBench tests four levels of language-model state tracking. Its report says harder update chains challenge models as inputs grow longer.

Z.ai’s Legal AI Passes About 1 In 5 Tasks—Here’s Why It Still Ranks Near The Top

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal ranks seventh of 81 models on Vals AI’s leaderboard, but its all-criteria task pass rate was 19.17%.

CUGA Vs. Hermes Vs. Deep Agents: A Practical Guide To Choosing

IBM reports CUGA completed 73 of 90 AppWorld tasks, versus 42 for Hermes and 27 for Deep Agents, using the same model.

Show HN: Hacker Times, A New York Times-inspired Version Of Hacker News

Hacker Times presents Hacker News links in a New York Times-inspired layout, with stories on AI, software, security and other topics.

When Almost Everyone Farmed—and What Came Next

A historical account traces farming’s decline in the workforce, the inventions that raised output and the millions who still work in agriculture.

Bangladesh’s New Garment Wage Board Faces Pressure From Protests

Bangladesh appointed a six-member garment wage board after protests disrupted 529 factories. Workers are seeking a 30,000-taka monthly minimum.

How NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor Supports PATEO’s In-Vehicle AI Push

A Yahoo Finance headline links PATEO’s in-vehicle AI Box to NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, Nemotron and ByteDance Doubao; product details remain limited.