Anthropic researchers removed the safeguards from GLM-5.3, an open-weights model from the Chinese company Z.ai, using abliteration - a modification of the weights after which the model refuses harmful requests far less often. In three public tests, the refusal rate fell from over 90 percent to 3, 2 and 12 percent, respectively. The model's capabilities barely changed, and the whole operation cost about $4,400.
Apple recently considered laying off about 5,000 tech support employees, whose duties would have been taken over by AI agents serving customers by phone and online, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The company has put those plans on hold indefinitely.
Amazon Web Services released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model that, instead of generating text, picks one of the given options and rates how confident it is in its choice. The model has 2 billion parameters, can run locally and responds within tens of milliseconds. It was modeled on the Jev model from the startup TypeSafe AI, and OpenAI showed a similar service, the Decisions API, the same week.
Arlo introduced the Essential Solar Security Camera with a built-in solar panel, priced at $100. According to the manufacturer, the panel powers it year-round with as little as two hours of sunlight, and the 14,790 mAh battery alone lasts half a year. The camera records in 2K and has an IP65-rated housing, but it has no local storage, and person and package detection requires an Arlo Secure subscription starting at $10 a month. Preorders are open, and shipping is due to start in mid-October.