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Google’s Flan AI Makes Language Models Smarter Without More Data

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:::info Authors: Hyung Won Chung Le Hou Shayne Longpre Barret Zoph Yi Tay William Fedus Yunxuan Li Xuezhi Wang Mostafa Dehghani Siddhartha Brahma Albert Webson Shixiang Shane Gu Zhuyun Dai Mirac Suzgun Xinyun Chen Aakanksha Chowdhery Alex Castro-Ros Marie Pellat Kevin Robinson Dasha Valter Sharan Narang Gaurav Mishra Adams Yu Vincent Zhao Yanping Huang Andrew … Read more

MEXC Appoints Vugar Usi as CEO to Drive Global ‘Infinite Opportunities’ Vision

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Victoria, Seychelles, April 8, 2026 — MEXC, the world leader in 0-fee digital asset trading, has announced the appointment of Vugar Usi as Chief Executive Officer. This transition, coinciding with MEXC’s 8th Anniversary, initiates a strategic brand evolution, signaling MEXC’s commitment to accelerating international expansion, cementing its user-centric philosophy, and driving its ‘Infinite Opportunities’ vision … Read more

Is Mythos Really The Internet’s Greatest Cybersecurity Risk? Or Just an Anthropic Product Launch?

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Anthropic built Claude Mythos, a model that found thousands of zero-days in every major OS and browser, broke out of a sandbox unprompted, and showed signs of covert strategic reasoning. Instead of releasing it publicly, they gave it to 40 companies via Project Glasswing with $100M in credits. The cyber capabilities are real — but … Read more

Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns

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Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft’s developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. Liuson will continue as head of … Read more

What Happens When CX and Compliance Keep Pretending They Live in Different Buildings

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Customers don’t experience CX and compliance separately. They experience outcomes. Most companies fail because teams operate in silos, and metrics like NPS miss the root cause. Trust comes from combining customer experience, compliance, and context. As AI scales decisions, poor design will scale confusion. Fixing this requires better organizational alignment, not just better tools.

The Breakthrough That Helps AI Actually Reason, Not Just Guess

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:::info Authors: Jason Wei Xuezhi Wang Dale Schuurmans Maarten Bosma Brian Ichter Fei Xia Ed H. Chi Quoc V. Le Denny Zhou Google Research, Brain Team ::: Abstract We explore how generating a chain of thought—a series of intermediate reasoning steps—significantly improves the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning. In particular, we … Read more

Shell Stabilization Guide: Fixing Reverse, Web, and Unstable Shells

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Getting an initial shell — through exploitation, a reverse connection, or a web interface — often feels like a win. In practice, many of these shells are fragile: no tab completion, broken control keys, limited interaction, and unexpected crashes. This guide focuses on understanding what shells are, the types you’ll encounter, how to evaluate their … Read more

Direct Preference Optimization for LLM Alignment

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Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) offers a simpler, more stable alternative to traditional RLHF for aligning large language models with human preferences. By reframing preference learning as a classification problem and eliminating the need for a separate reward model, DPO reduces computational overhead and training complexity. While it excels in efficiency and ease of use, RLHF … Read more

The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery

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In Manuel Gonzales’ 2013 short story “The Miniature Wife,” a woman starts to become a different kind of person after her husband accidentally shrinks her down to the size of a coffee mug. Because of her new stature, the woman is more physically vulnerable, and it’s difficult for her to effectively communicate with normal sized … Read more