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Dispatches · Cursor · Z.ai · GLM 5.3

Cursor adds Z.ai's GLM 5.3 and says it tops open models

Cursor says GLM 5.3 Max is the best-scoring open-weight model on its own CursorBench 4.0, and has added both GLM 5.3 and a Flash variant to its editor.

Cursor said on X on Thursday evening that GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash are now available in its coding editor. In the same post the company said GLM 5.3 Max is the best-scoring open-weight model on CursorBench 4.0, a benchmark Cursor runs itself. The post had about 900 likes when we read it.

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Policy & Regulation · Jay Clayton · White House · CBS News

CBS reports Jay Clayton is likely Trump's pick for AI czar

CBS News, citing sources, says Jay Clayton will likely be named the White House's AI czar while staying director of national intelligence. The White House calls the reporting baseless speculation.

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  • Andrew Curran posted that Sam Altman said in an interview a month ago OpenAI's humanoid robot will start with two uses: building more OpenAI robots and constructing OpenAI datacenters. Andrew Curran on X
  • IntCyberDigest posted that an Airbnb host used an AI‑generated photo of an overflowing toilet to demand $1,700, and that Google's Gemini checker flagged the image's invisible SynthID watermark. IntCyberDigest
  • Artificial Analysis says Alibaba's Qwen‑Image‑2.1 is the new number one open‑weights model on both of its image leaderboards, a 7B model with native 2K output and transparent RGBA editing. Artificial Analysis
  • Ben Affleck says his Artists Equity fine‑tunes open video models by training only the last layers on its own eight‑month, stage‑shot dataset, according to a clip posted by Rohan Paul. Rohan Paul ▶ Watch
  • OpenAI's developer account says a Modretro Chromatic handheld has been added to its Codex side quest, with 48 hours left to join, in a post that drew 272 likes. OpenAI Developers
  • ComfyUI says YUI, a 4:20 animated short made by artist @8co28 in three days, is the first film made with its Comfy Agent, which handled shot regeneration and character consistency checks. ComfyUI
  • Google says Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android phones, giving real‑time audio descriptions of whatever the camera sees, such as small print, per The Verge. The Verge
  • Reuters reports a US judge dismissed Chegg's and Penske Media's antitrust suits claiming Google forced publishers to allow content in AI Overviews, cutting their web traffic. Reuters
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