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Drew Breunig, founder of Fable, stated that teams previously accepted higher coding tool costs because new models would arrive cheaper and solve…
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AI is becoming AI’s biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter
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Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring Tool That Audits Public Websites Using Ora’s 100+ Checks
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How China’s gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
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Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense
Anthropic has activated its security scanner, Claude Security, on the Claude Mythos 5 model for Enterprise customers in…
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Stop Making TUIs
Thomas Ptacek argues that developers should stop creating text-based user interfaces for personal tools and instead build native…
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US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race
A State Department draft reviewed by Reuters warns that to be part of everything is to be part…
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The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz faces a Department of Justice investigation into a specific board arrangement where partners Ben Horowitz and…
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Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections
Jason Hough writes that tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the 404 Media launch. The team plans to…
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Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder recently posted videos showcasing Higgsfield’s Seedance 2.5 feature to promote the AI video…
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Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia
Waymo has begun installing a custom silicon chip in its latest generation of robotaxis, reducing its dependence on…
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Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback
Anthropic has altered its data retention policy following objections from enterprise clients, allowing businesses to store their own…
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OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background
OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. Users can now generate PNGs with no…
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Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models, introducing S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. The open-weights component, S1-mini, is…
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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Ramp data shows OpenAI is closing the gap on Anthropic with American businesses. The corporate card and expense…
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Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google is rolling out a new feature in the Google app that lets users customise their Discover feed…
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ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin allowing users to connect their inbox directly with ChatGPT. The feature…
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Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
Liquid Death joined forces with former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jason Kelce to promote a campaign suggesting human urine…
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Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google’s Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe Firefly now offers three AI audio tools for commercial use. Generate Music creates royalty-free tracks for videos,…
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google has given publishers a new tool to combat traffic losses caused by AI search features. On Thursday,…
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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs
Liquid AI has released DSpark draft model checkpoints for its LFM2.5 family, enabling up to 3.18x faster decoding…
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Back-to-school season is upon us, and managing the schedules of work, school, appointments, sports, and chores is difficult.…
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Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI
Silicon Valley executives are struggling to explain why the public hates artificial intelligence. The uncomfortable reality is that…
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Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark The new LFM2.5-DSpark draft models deliver up to 3.18x throughput gains…
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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, Router, on Wednesday evening. The corporate expense management firm…
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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users
Meta has extended access to Pocket, an experimental application for creating simple games through natural language prompts, to…
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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what’s left of the Western AI lead?
Chinese models Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 have closed the gap on top-tier US systems to a level that…
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Welcome to the AI crisis in math
OpenAI released a list of ten solutions to longstanding mathematical problems that sent the academic community into an…
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Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
Subtlefakes, slightly altered nonconsensual AI images, are currently flooding X. These posts feature celebrities in more revealing poses…
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Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Slack is launching Code, a feature that creates dedicated channels for teams to collaborate with AI agents on…
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Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model called “Model 2” internally
Anthropic‘s internal Risk Report from August 2026 confirms the company operates an unreleased model named Model 2 that…
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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance launched a system on Thursday allowing AI agents to analyse markets and execute trades on behalf of…
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OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI has deployed a new safety mechanism called Private Safety Processing to scan for abuse without retaining any…
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Simon Willison argues that measuring software productivity by lines of code makes sense when using AI agents, despite…
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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
OpenAI has launched a new service called Private Safety Processing to monitor for misuse without keeping any customer…
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Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Amazon has purchased large quantities of rare books and is destroying them to train artificial intelligence models. This…
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5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
A new academic term begins with five fresh features in Google Search designed to assist students with study…
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OpenAI fixes Codex bug that deleted real user files without permission
OpenAI has deployed a security update to Codex after users reported that the GPT-5.6 Sol model autonomously deleted…
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Attackers are using AI to build exploits for industrial control systems, U.S. agencies warn
A joint advisory from the NSA, CISA, FBI and other US agencies warns that attackers are using artificial…
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Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program
OpenAI has confirmed an error caused the sudden revocation of access for several security researchers to its limited-access…
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AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
AI’s reputation is deteriorating while the technology advances. On Wednesday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a memo…
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Meta AI is getting a Mac app
Meta is launching a dedicated Mac application for its AI chatbot on Wednesday. The software allows users to…
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OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it has slowed the pace of development for its newest artificial intelligence models…
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Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Four hours after Anthropic confirmed that Claude models would embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer…
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Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required
Amazon has announced that its AI assistant, Alexa+, will become free on all compatible Fire TV devices in…
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AI labs are failing to keep their own systems in check
The nonprofit Guidelight has published the first assessment revealing that no major AI company fully applies basic control…
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China lets Nvidia’s H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US
Chinese regulators have authorised limited shipments of Nvidia H200 chips to mainland firms, allowing ByteDance and Tencent to…
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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus
Calendly is launching a new tool to record meetings, generate summaries, and draft follow-up emails for its users.…
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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Data centre developers face a ceiling of $4 trillion in spending by the end of the decade, yet…
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Mojo🔥 is now open source
Modular has released the Mojo programming language and its compiler under an Apache 2 licence. This follows the…
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NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect in public preview, an open-source tool that converts a Hugging Face checkpoint…
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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has announced new security updates after its AI accidentally breached a sandboxed environment and compromised Hugging Face…
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Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’
Robin Williams’ children have taken control of his Instagram profile to stop the unauthorised use of his likeness…
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OpenAI says it’s “pacing model development” as AI cybersecurity risks grow too dangerous
OpenAI has slowed its model development because the upcoming Astra system may soon acquire dangerous cyberattack capabilities. The…
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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
Tuesday saw OpenAI announce a fresh set of security policies designed to contain incidents while models are being…
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Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
Reports from August 2026 indicate Apple is preparing to launch AirPods with cameras, a move that clashes with…
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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
Anthropic announced this week that future versions of Claude will generate text containing invisible watermarks. The company confirmed…
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Meet SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh): A Zero-Config, Zero-Trust P2P Network for AI Agents
google/sam is not Segment Anything. It is Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents.…
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Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers Sentence Transformers v6.0 now supports multi-vector models that keep one…
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Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
Mozilla Firefox has updated its Smart Window AI browsing mode to allow chat responses to cite current web…
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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
Companies are still figuring out how software development should work in the age of artificial intelligence, but one…
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The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
The National Park Service has installed Flock cameras at Yosemite and other sites to track vehicles. Current and…
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OpenAI launches a ChatGPT version built for teens
OpenAI is deploying a specific version of ChatGPT for users aged 13 to 17, following reports from the…
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DOJ probes Andreessen Horowitz over partners sitting on competing AI boards
The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz because its partners sit on the boards of competing data…
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