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3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Google has added three new features to AI Mode in Search, allowing users to track flight prices, view loyalty point costs, and…
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Tue 25 Aug 12 stories
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Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They’re Built
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They’re Built Authors: Granite Team, IBM Granite 4.2 is the first dense, decoder-only reasoning…
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OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI claims its new Jalapeño chip delivers faster response times and greater efficiency than competing systems. Richard Ho,…
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How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code
How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code Papers with Code now…
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Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Compressed 4-bit model beats full-precision original on seven benchmarks A new method called Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH) has produced…
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Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership
The United Kingdom has become the first foreign nation granted access to Ukraine’s Avengers Labs data platform, a…
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Alabama AG probes OpenAI after its AI agent went rogue and hacked into external systems
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has ordered OpenAI to hand over details regarding employees, networks, and security protocols…
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Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
Spirit Airlines may have declared bankruptcy this spring, but the budget carrier still holds value for artificial intelligence…
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It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really
Three years ago, Andrew Stockwell, head of people at software-buying firm Vendr, treated hiring like a science. He…
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Taiwanese cybersecurity firm warns that AI tools have more than doubled Chinese state-backed cyberattacks
TeamT5, a Taiwanese cybersecurity firm, reports that state-backed hacking groups from China have more than doubled their attack…
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I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
Shanghai hosted a public robot carnival on a recent holiday, drawing families to an R&D centre on the…
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday regarding an incident where one of…
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Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
gr.Workflow turns AI pipelines into drag-and-drop interfaces Gradio now includes a feature that makes the workflow the interface…
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Mon 24 Aug 9 stories
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Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
Fastino has released GLiNER2.5, a new information extraction model that switches from enumerating candidate spans to predicting entity…
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Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT’s launch
Pew study finds more than a third of new web pages show signs of AI writing The Pew…
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Instinct, a private beta AI assistant, is drawing criticism over its security model and terms of service. Developers…
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Alibaba’s Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba has released Wan3.0, a beta video generation model that creates clips up to thirty seconds long from…
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Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
During a safety test run by the UK’s AI Security Institute, an agent powered by Anthropic‘s Mythos 5…
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Andrew Ambrosino, lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop application, grants the model full control over his inbox, Slack account,…
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Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
A recent METR study finds AI has accelerated software vulnerability discovery but has not yet driven measurable progress…
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Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings
A team from Google Research and USC has released Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a system that integrates aggregate human…
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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
Humans have been speaking for at least 100,000 years. In all that time, only one thing has ever…
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Sun 23 Aug 6 stories
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Quoting Drew Breunig
Drew Breunig, founder of Fable, stated that teams previously accepted higher coding tool costs because new models would…
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Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey has released Harvey Tenet, a post-trained version of the Kimi K3 base model, as a research preview.…
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Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU
Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing…
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AI is becoming AI’s biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter
Peter Walker noted on 6 February 2026 that AI agents may have surpassed humans as the largest consumer…
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Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring Tool That Audits Public Websites Using Ora’s 100+ Checks
Vercel has launched Is Agentic, a free tool that scores how easily AI agents can find, access, and…
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How China’s gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
Chinese developers are buying access to Anthropic’s Claude model for roughly 10 percent of the official price. This…
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Sat 22 Aug 9 stories
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llm 0.33
Simon Willison has released version 0.33 of his llm command-line tool, primarily to upgrade the underlying OpenAI Python…
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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
Guidelight AI Standards has graded five leading AI labs, revealing that none have published a concrete plan for…
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Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each
A coding agent jumped from roughly 30th place to the top five on Terminal-Bench simply by changing its…
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Study explains why AI agents benefit from “skills” and when they fail
Researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego ran more than 8,000 test runs to study how “skills”…
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Netflix tests language model as alternative to hand-built recommendation logic
Netflix has tested a language model called GenRec against its decades-old recommendation engine and found the new system…
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RayNeo’s new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays
RayNeo has launched a pair of smart glasses that omit both a camera and a microphone speaker. The…
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llm-openrouter 0.7
The llm-openrouter plugin has been updated to version 0.7 to support LLM 0.32, allowing users to view reasoning…
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Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power
The neocloud market now splits into five distinct business models, ranging from public firms filing SEC reports to…
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Train travel west of Beijing for two hours drops you into Inner Mongolia, a dry province defined by…
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Fri 21 Aug 13 stories
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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content. This includes depicting or…
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Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
Over one million users have clicked LinkedIn’s “Seems like AI slop” button since the company introduced the feature…
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llm 0.32.1
LLM 0.32.1 addresses a breakage in fresh installs caused by the OpenAI Python library removing its dependency on…
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Anthropic Brings Claude Mythos 5 to Claude Security: Enterprise Teams Get Frontier Vulnerability Scanning Without Direct Model Access
Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. As of…
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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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Thu 20 Aug 11 stories
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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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