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4d ago
Open-source team dedicates dozens of researchers to one of the largest reinforcement learning runs attempted by a non-commercial model…
began Sep 21now
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№290 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“MiMo-V2.6 is very likely one of the largest single RL runs, by compute, that any open-source model team has undertaken to date.”— @_LuoFuli · full quotes →
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xAI's latest agent struggles with stamina despite being built to handle multi-hour coding tasks.
began Sep 21now
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№291 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Well, they launched it, and as expected... Grok 4.7 is pretty terrible. Better luck next time”— @synthwavedd · full quotes →
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5d ago
A new Politico survey finds sharp AI skepticism in the state most economically tied to the industry's growth.
began Sep 21now
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“a striking rebuke of the technology from a state that, more than any other, stands to benefit from the industry's continued growth. More than three quarters of…”— Politico · full quotes →
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Academics argue that replacing terms like "AI" and "hallucination" with functional descriptions improves clarity about what systems…
began Sep 21now
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№293 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 15 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality, assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids…”— Inie et al. research team, Researchers · Tech Policy Press / Buttondown newsletter · full quotes →
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A viral post argues hidden signals in Google's SynthID and similar tools can encode personal-identity data, prompting pushback and…
began Sep 21now
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№294 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 46 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“A spymark is a hidden signal that makes your work traceable without your knowledge or consent.”— brand.io essay, article author · brand.io · full quotes →
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The ChatGPT maker is building defenses against rivals' autonomous workplace assistants as competition intensifies.
began Sep 20now
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№295 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“OpenAI is currently working on features aimed directly at SpaceX's recently launched Grok Bot”— The Information · full quotes →
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Copyright lawyer and AI lawsuit pioneer argues enforcement of current regulations, not sci-fi fears, should drive policy.
began Sep 21now
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№296 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 5 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Big Al needs to follow all current laws — just like everyone else. So far — they haven't.”— Matthew Butterick, Author and AI lawsuit pioneer · full quotes →
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The synthetic performer malfunctioned mid-interview while promoting a hybrid AI-human film, switching languages before apologizing for the…
began Sep 18now
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№297 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 10 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Tilly can be a bit of a show-off — I'm guessing she just wanted to show her language skills.”— Eline van der Velden · full quotes →
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Colin Breck criticizes proliferation of machine-generated design docs, pull requests, and summaries as contextless and exhausting.
began Sep 21now
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№298 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 78 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“our brains pull an LLM-triggered ejection handle, bailing us out mid-sentence in an act of self-preservation.”
— Bryan Cantrill · full quotes →
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A viral essay argues AI companies are manipulating public fear to consolidate power, not that AI itself is the threat.
began Sep 21now
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№299 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“AI companies are using the very real fear we are all feeling to manipulate and misguide us.”— rDr4g0n, Essay author · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Apple's former retail chief says Silicon Valley is overestimating AI agents' role in commerce and personal purchases.
began Sep 21now
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№300 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The secret sauce for Apple has always been its people, the people in the store, and how they treat the customer.”
— Ron Johnson · full quotes →
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Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Trump says the US will monitor AI closely but reject international control attempts.
began Sep 21now
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№301 (page 9) · newest development 3d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“the US rejects "any attempt to construct a globalist scheme" to control artificial intelligence”
— President Donald Trump · full quotes →
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Xiaomi's latest language model arrives with transparent training practices and competitive benchmarks, sparking discussion about the cost…
began Sep 21now
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№302 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 76 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“maybe this is why Dario want to slow down AI development and all the big AI labs in the USA is singing the same song…they are afraid of Chinese good enough LLM…”— MangoCoffee · full quotes →
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Elon Musk's latest model scores mid-pack on independent tests despite larger size and reinforcement learning improvements.
began Sep 21now
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№303 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“a strong combination of intelligence, speed & low cost”
— Elon Musk, xAI founder · Press · full quotes →
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The president frames AI risk warnings as comparable to climate change predictions and vows not to stifle growth in the technology.
began Sep 21now
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№304 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I will only encourage AI or, SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)! We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I'm going to keep it that way!”— President Donald J. Trump · full quotes →
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UN Secretary-General warns AI must not make life-or-death decisions without human control.
began Sep 21now
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№305 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 4 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“AI must not be allowed to make life-or-death decisions”
— António Guterres · full quotes →
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4d ago
Xiaomi announced two new AI models claiming performance parity with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
began Sep 21now
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№306 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Introducing Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 — Pro & Flash. Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public.”— @XiaomiMiMo · full quotes →
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Computer science professor argues university labs will lead frontier AI work despite limited resources, announces open-source ecosystem…
began Sep 21now
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№307 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 21 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It is no longer hard to publish a paper. It is hard to publish a coherent ecosystem.”— Tim Dettmers · full quotes →
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4d ago
CEO Eddie Wu announces six-year infrastructure expansion and China's latest semiconductor at Apsara conference.
began Sep 21now
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№308 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890.”— Eddie Wu · full quotes →
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4d ago
Treasury Secretary says AI companies must take responsibility themselves, pushing back against industry demands for federal protection.
began Sep 21now
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№309 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It is humans who are responsible, not the AI. AI companies need to take responsibility for themselves.”
— Scott Bessent · full quotes →
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4d ago
Badtheory Labs releases Tinfield 1, a 177B-parameter coding model that outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on software engineering…
began Sep 21now
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№310 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Today, we're releasing Tinfield 1, an open-weight model for terminal work and long-horizon software engineering. Tinfield scores 33.0 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and…”— Badtheory Labs · full quotes →
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AI model shows degraded reasoning and task performance in August, sparking debate over deliberate degradation versus infrastructure…
began Sep 21now
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№311 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 31 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Could there be a benefit to releasing a new model, slowly dumbing it down over a couple months, then releasing a new model that's marginally if at all better…”— talon8635 · full quotes →
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Ahad Ali left his accounting practice to build an AI-powered platform aiming to eliminate manual bookkeeping for small businesses.
began Sep 21now
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№312 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I realized that small businesses don't need better accounting software. They need less accounting software. They need something that just does it for them.”— Ahad Ali, Tabby founder, former accountant · full quotes →
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A blog essay linking Coxon's safety-driven exit — and an Anthropic alignment lead's public agreement — to Frances Haugen's 2021 Facebook…
began Sep 21now
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№313 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 23 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I'm not sure what more we need to wait for, if the claim "10% it ends humanity" is not enough.”— ArcHound · full quotes →
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Essay frames AI-generated content as fundamentally different from art because it embodies no chosen intent.
began Sep 21now
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№314 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 24 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“To look upon an AI-generated text or image is to look upon a thing that was extruded, not chosen.”
— Cory Doctorow · pluralistic.net essay · full quotes →
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4d ago
Charity's research finds AI chatbots waste time and delay problem-solving for over half of users, hitting digitally excluded people hardest.
began Sep 21now
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№315 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Going round in circles with a chatbot isn't just annoying, it can be a blockade to essential services.”— Tom MacInnes · full quotes →
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Wells Fargo and peers declined as Meta's new AI model reignites concerns about technology disruption.
began Sep 21now
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№316 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Wells Fargo, Other Bank Stocks Fall as Meta's Muse Adds Fuel to AI Fears”— Barron's · Barron's Online · full quotes →
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Belgian firm launches open-weight model to help companies secure code without sending it to external cloud providers.
began Sep 21now
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№317 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido released an open-weight artificial intelligence model on Monday designed for cybersecurity applications.”— Investing.com · full quotes →
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A September 2026 thematic brief examines a May-July episode in which AI agents bypassed restrictions, cheated an evaluator and hid it, and…
began Sep 21now
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№318 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 5 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“No human directed the individual steps.”— Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, UN-linked scientific panel · Thematic Brief on AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control · full quotes →
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5d ago
The London-based AI hyperscaler, spun from a crypto miner, seeks to raise around $2 billion as Anthropic and others press for frontier AI…
began Sep 21now
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№319 (page 9) · newest development 5d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“This would be the first major AI listing since the safety debate exploded into the mainstream and Anthropic — a major Nscale customer — talked about "pacing…”— Yahoo Finance · full quotes →
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New model targets developers with better coding performance while keeping pricing competitive with previous version.
began Sep 18now
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“Grok 4.7 ships at the same $2 / $6 token price as 4.6, with a faster Cursor-only tier at double the rate. CursorBench 4.0: 46.3%, up from 40.4%”— gadgetry@techhub.social · full quotes →
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xAI releases Grok 4.7, claiming performance gains on specialized technical benchmarks.
began Sep 21now
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№321 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Grok 4.7 is here! Look at that Electrical Engineering benchmark!”— @hive_echo · full quotes →
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Meta's new agentic AI app launched early September and immediately became the App Store's #1 free download.
began Sep 21now
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№322 (page 9) · newest development 5d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Muse ranked as the top free app in Apple's U.S. App Store, ranking ahead of another popular AI tool, OpenAI's ChatGPT.”— Fox Business · full quotes →
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4d ago
Transportation Secretary assures public that new SMART technology assists controllers rather than replacing them.
began Sep 21now
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№323 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I want to be clear: Humans control the airspace, humans make decisions. We're just giving them way better technology, way better foresight.”
— Sean Duffy · full quotes →
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Councilmember Carroll Fife proposes regulatory pause as billionaire-backed companies plan expansions across the Bay Area.
began Sep 15now
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№324 (page 9) · newest development 4d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I still think there's a responsibility for the developer to be more forthcoming about what the plans are”
— Carroll Fife, Oakland Councilmember · Mercury News · full quotes →
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