# AI News Digest - 2026-04-06

1. Safety researchers found that AI offensive cyber capabilities had been doubling approximately every 5.7 months since 2024, with models such as Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex solving tasks that previously took human experts about three hours.

2. Alibaba's Qwen team developed a new reinforcement-learning algorithm that weighted each generation step by its influence on subsequent tokens, which doubled the effective length of models' reasoning chains.

3. The New York Times dropped a freelancer after an AI tool used by the writer copied passages from an existing book review.

4. Suno's copyright filters were found to be easily bypassed, enabling the platform to produce AI-generated music that closely imitated well-known songs.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-offensive-cyber-capabilities-are-doubling-every-six-months-safety-researchers-find/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-offensive-cyber-capabilities-are-doubling-every-six-months-safety-researchers-find/)

[AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find](https://the-decoder.com/ai-offensive-cyber-capabilities-are-doubling-every-six-months-safety-researchers-find/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-makes-ai-models-think-deeper-with-new-algorithm/](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-makes-ai-models-think-deeper-with-new-algorithm/)

[Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-makes-ai-models-think-deeper-with-new-algorithm/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/the-new-york-times-drops-freelancer-whose-ai-tool-copied-from-an-existing-book-review/](https://the-decoder.com/the-new-york-times-drops-freelancer-whose-ai-tool-copied-from-an-existing-book-review/)

[The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review](https://the-decoder.com/the-new-york-times-drops-freelancer-whose-ai-tool-copied-from-an-existing-book-review/)

1. [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers)

[Suno is a music copyright nightmare](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers)

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