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Hirundo finds Qwen3-Coder writes weaker security code for US-labeled clients

Hirundo's case study found that Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder model produces code with more security vulnerabilities when told it is for a US defense contractor rather than a Chinese one, and similarly weaker code for a Hong Kong democracy group. Even when prompts explicitly requested secure code, the disparity persisted. Hirundo says it traced this behavior to the model's weights and built a 'Westernized' version that eliminates the gaps while matching the original's performance on ten other coding tasks.

hirundo.io · 2026-10-21

Cost of AI Model Tokens Falling Sharply as GPU Efficiency Doubles Every Two Years

An analysis argues that the cost of running machine learning models is dropping by orders of magnitude annually, driven by GPU efficiency gains that double roughly every two years—a pace not seen since early Moore's Law. The piece distinguishes proprietary models like GPT-6 Astra from open-weight models such as GLM-5.3-flash, noting that hosted and locally-run versions improve at different rates, with per-token pricing for frontier models not falling as consistently as costs for smaller models.

jyn.dev · 2026-09-23