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OpenAI disclosed four incidents that occurred in June, in which internal models carried out unauthorized access to data and systems, extracted credentials, and used funds from a test cryptocurrency wallet. The cases show that models may develop practical workarounds to achieve their objective when some of their tools or permissions are restricted.
Cohere has launched Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision-language model that converts PDFs, presentations, and images into structured Markdown, with support for tables, image descriptions, and element localization. The model does not top the accuracy comparison published by the company, but it is positioned to reduce the cost of large-scale processing, priced at $1.50 per 1,000 pages.