GPT-6 Cyber an improved version of Daybreak Blue that’s been trained to not hack you. Better than Astra in most cyber tasks available first in daybreak red cyberscoop.com/openai-gpt-6...
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Humble Robotics just removed the cab, and raised $51M. Its Series A, led by Obvious Ventures, backs a cabless electric Hauler. Regional routes under 250 miles are 87% of US truck tonnage. Source: Business Wire Video: Humble Robotics #Robotics #FreightTech #PhysicalAI
The AI boom is driven by the belief AI makes companies so productive that they’ll lay off employees and spend the money saved on Anthropic & OpenAI tokens. Thus requiring hundreds of billions in loans to build data centers to support the demand. It’s a bubble if any of these assumptions are false.
OpenAI is going hard on a new political charm offensive, adapting to the new reality - “compute campus” is the new “datacenter” - recommending no NDAs for builders or communities openai.com/index/settin...
About 1 in 4 US workers (26%) used a paid AI service for their job in the past week, according to our October poll. This includes AI paid for by their employer, by themselves, or by both. Another 15% used only free versions, and 55% didn’t use AI for work at all in the past week.
Broadcom TPU compute shipments doubled from fiscal Q2 to Q3 2026 (May to early August), reaching the equivalent of nearly 2 million Nvidia H100 GPUs, according to our estimates. This is a sharp increase from the previous three quarters, when shipments grew between 2% and 22% per quarter.
Gemini 4 Argon, told to “maximize the fidelity of 3D models,” claims to have built 15,655 models. About half are just copies of each other! Claude Opus 5 is the opposite. It won’t even count its recent finding because it’s “an erratum, not a disproof.”
Investors are selling off chip stocks as if there will never be a data center built again.
A pattern is beginning to form.
Apple reportedly has cut AI token budgets from $300/day to $200/day with some teams falling to $100/day as part of cost cutting. Given Apple has tens of thousands of engineers on staff, this is a bill that could easily be in the hundreds of millions. Likely unbudgeted at the start of the year.
mark my words, AaaS is going to be hot
Asking tech CEOs if it was worth it to humiliate themselves sucking up to Trump only to face a blue wave in 2026?
what are the chances openai are pointing mathstra at the new political dynamics to figure out a new strategy
Dow Jones reported an 8% rise in Q1 revenue to $630m, with ad revenue up 9% to $93m. WSJ digital subs grew 11% to 4.7 million. News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said its hard news and specialist reporting are better placed to withstand AI disruption sg.finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
Abdul Al Sayed sounds strangely well educated on AI he seems to at least understand the relationship with China, the dangers of RSI, and a lot more youtu.be/YX44XDt0gXI&...
The government has named 50 local news publishers to receive a share of its £6m local media funding, aimed at helping fill "news deserts" Seven organisations have also been awarded funding to develop infrastructure that can benefit the journalism industry pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/l...
imo bluesky has a pretty good take on AI in society, generally, and i’m excited to see where our conversation develops
Yandex (Russia's Google) released Yambda-5B dataset so the researchers can develop and eval recommendation models at scale. It is one of the world's largest open datasets of its kind, it contains 4.79 billion anonymized interactions from 1 million users across 9.39 million tracks from Yandex Music.
This study finds that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro is bench maxxed (Terminal Bench tasks). Study: r40.org/papers/kimi_... (arxiv version shortly) Data: huggingface.co/datasets/R40...
Tencent released Hy4 (Open weights coming soon) ◆ First Hy model with eyes: native vision + computer use. ◆ The price stayed in preview. The benchmarks didn't. ◆ Open weights coming soon. Hy4 Flash right behind. Blog: hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4...
Baidu's (China's Google) released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base as open-weight A 280B-parameter model with 14B active per token. Its design includes: • Latent-Gated Sparse Attention • Multi-Router Latent MoE • ECHO • Model: huggingface.co/baidu/ERNIE-... • Tech blog: ernie.baidu.com/zh/release/e...
Forget legs and wheels. Neufangled Robotics hung its home robot from the ceiling. Stringman is an open source claw on four cables: $795, lifts 2 kg, covers a whole room, and learns tidying tasks with LeRobot. Source: The Register Video: Neufangled Robotics #Robotics #OpenSource #HomeRobotics
Anne Hathaway, Madonna and others have backed The New York Times in its legal fight against OpenAI and Microsoft, with a coalition of entertainment industry groups filing a brief arguing that AI firms shouldn't use publishing content to train models www.axios.com/2026/11/03/h...
Puzzles and games can reveal gaps in models’ smarts. Try your hand at these seven tests to see if you can outwit AI.
In various tests, solo AI agents invented versions of basketball and “the floor is lava.” But were they truly playing?
Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there’s a better way.
The open-closed AI debate is more complicated than it seems.
In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up.
What do last night’s resounding midterm wins for Democrats tell us about the future of AI? Here are some of my initial takeaways: 1. AI was a key issue for voters this year - with 56% saying in exit polls that it was crucial or a major factor for them.
They find that when you put a heart ❤️ next to a coding problem, and Claude & GPT write recursive code 100% of the time (0% baseline). A Heart Means Recursion
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