Why OpenAI Walked Out on Cursor and Anthropic Couldn’t
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI’s models carry 5% of Cursor’s traffic. Anthropic’s Claude runs on 220,000 of SpaceX’s GPUs. Read those two numbers before you read either company’s statement. On Friday 28 August, OpenAI published a short post …
I KNOW what OX Alpha is. And here’s how I know it
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. The behavioural test everyone uses to unmask anonymous models is worthless. The arithmetic underneath it costs one cent and cannot be faked On 21 August 2026, I asked an anonymous model on OpenRouter what …
OpenAI and Anthropic Just Made Corporate Hacking a Benchmark
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI and Anthropic have turned real-world hacking into a leaderboard, and the rest of us are the scoreboard. On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its production infrastructure. The company later …
White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar On June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 …
Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship On 30 June 2026, Anthropic published a launch table in which its mid-tier model outscores its flagship. Claude Sonnet 5 posts 1618 …
Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs Mark Zuckerberg spent the first half of 2026 laying off about 8,000 people, reassigning roughly 7,000 more into AI …
China’s Coding Model, Kimi K2.7 Code, is 6x Cheaper Than Claude. It also Grades Its Own Homework
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. China’s Coding Model, Kimi K2.7 Code, is 6x Cheaper Than Claude. It also Grades Its Own Homework China’s best open-weight coder is here; it’s a fraction of the cost, and you cannot independently verify …
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