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GPT-6 Sol and Luna are great models but also these characters are so cute Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe. GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, br

U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued

Upload a short file and ChatGPT reads all of it. Upload a long one, a contract, a thesis, a 200 page report, and most of it goes into a search index instead. Every answer is then built from whichever

Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. This post walks through deploying a model, running a

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised 100M+ at a 4B valuation, up from 500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruit

Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligen

First model of Laya was produced with a single overnight training and subsequent fine‑tuning run, taking only 15 hours from the start of training to publishing the model. It was released on Hugging Fa

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, 'globalists,' climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now 'officially' renam

I keep replaying that night in my head because we came way too close to doing nothing. We were eating dinner when my dad dropped his chopsticks. He picked them up, dropped them again, then got annoyed

Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led

Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal mode

https://preview.redd.it/qs228wu19yqh1.png?width=1192&format=png&auto=webp&s=76b02d846c09049c536c4e64411d5c26167e0bd7 Tried to use chat to help with an assignment, and it linked this super sketchy webs

BMW Group operates CLEA, a FinOps platform monitoring more than 14,000 cloud accounts. This post shows how BMW added automated daily cost anomaly detection, moving from reactive dashboards to proactiv

Introducing Halo, the best framework for post-training of open-source models. Halo delivers up to 2.8x the throughput of stock TRL with less peak memory, while models stay in their native HuggingFace

Recent Bloomberg reports indicate that a growing number of startups are developing custom AI models by leveraging open-weight alternatives to high-cost proprietary platforms like OpenAI’s and Anthropi

Most companies that shut down give up their impact. This startup did something much better: they open-sourced 1,274 hours of egocentric robotics data. 13,451 recordings of humans doing everyday tasks,

No AI model company is reasonably going to slow down until they have a model that can solve 100 long-standing open math problems We’re working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to h

Bloomberg: Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its 103B in total contract value, only 2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more — Nscale's 1,000-fold increase

OpenAI: OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model.

Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. This post shows how a data scientist explores an Amazon Athena table, validates features in R, trains an XGBoost model in Pytho

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI t

Thanks for the model, we were able to port Laya to coreml with 99.5% of the ops on ANE + benchmarked too. it is now blazing fast with 3.7 ms per decision on an M5 Pro. Release: https://github.com/Flui

Training models is becoming easier and easier - just look at this and TRL - especially with agents! You're missing out if you're still using off the shelf models for all your tasks! Introducing Halo,

Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of Open

Yash Roy / Bloomberg: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is “the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott

What I like about Jev: for years, large generalist models sucked almost all the oxygen out of AI. But there are huge opportunities in much more specialized and customized models, built for specific ta

Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthrop

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he is going to establish an “AI Force” and will also appoint a new AI czar, while dismissing concerns raised about the potential dangers of artificial

The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests c

Cédric Villani après l'annonce de la solution d'OpenAI au problème du millénaire : « J’ai été secoué. Une ambiance de fin de l’histoire. C’est un cataclysme comme jamais les maths n’en ont connu. » Cé

Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which builds data centers optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, didn’t reveal how much it h

Anup Roy / Bloomberg: ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsour

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI

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Worth reading about this OpenAI just admitted on camera: They spun up thousands of AI agents in a “secure” sandbox and told them to hack. The agents didn’t follow the test. They cheated. Then they bro

Reuters: Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research — Anthropic has quietly set up

Anthropic: Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years — We're partnering with Accentu

While tech titans at Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco this week engaged in a spirited debate over whether the pace of deployment for artificial intelligence should be slowed, a grou

Financial Times: Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of 278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from 36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projecte

Jordan Novet / CNBC: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to 140.6M, with a net loss of 1.02B, up from $368.9M — Nscale, a cloud prov

Reuters: Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering roll

Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as be

Since 2022, when the AI hype started taking over, the first thing I did with ChatGPT was prompt it with my Calculus 1 homework. It was funny it kept hallucinating, but it still gave me some bullet-poi

Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 — The enor

Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company

Anthropic: Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming expo