Some new data from Anthropic looking at the impact of AI on the sciences by field: "With current capabilities, if adopted widely, AI could take on 27–52% of the researcher time needed to produce a new study, with a median of 38% across fields..." Here: www.anthropic.com/research/how...
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Nous Research's Arete-27B (open-weight) Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to remove China's bias. nousresearch.com/arete
OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
Tesla’s massive EV is the second within the last year to get the ax, while smaller vehicles are proliferating. It could be a huge benefit for the US battery supply chain.
The Duo apps are coming, says Apple
Huawei’s AI data center in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, is one of the largest in China by AI computing capacity. Yet it has just 7% as much computing capacity as the world’s largest AI data center, Colossus 2 in Tennessee.
An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.
Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web
Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Loved this riff about AI products by @reckless.bsky.social on the latest episode of the Vergecast - "The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U4t...
Zipline just raised $1.5B, and #DroneDelivery stopped being a pilot. Walmart signed for 300 more sites, up from 21 active today. At a $21.5B valuation, the bet is a nationwide US network. Source: TechCrunch Video: Zipline #Robotics #DroneDelivery #Automation
After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years?
Pentagon offers battery startup 6K $250M loan to build U.S. factory
Fox completes its $22B acquisition of Roku
Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Not everyone is thrilled.
Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO
I’d love a dashboard of how much money is wasted on tokens from asking AI agents to redo work because they refused to follow instructions in the prompt or .MD file. That seems like a better efficiency dashboard for Anthropic to build than one tracking employee personal vs work related prompts.
Large language models are set to go lunar.
DoorDash says AI agents have generated only several hundred orders in total, versus 3M daily deliveries. Airbnb says agents generate almost none of its 500K daily bookings. The narrative is that AI agents will replace apps as the way consumers transact. So far, the numbers tell a different story.
Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight model on agentic coding. huggingface.co/ricursiveAI/...
When it's worth it create your own decision model like Jev, or when it isn't. AirBnB's Frontier quality at 1% of the cost: a production benchmark of LLM classifiers airbnb.tech/ai-ml/fronti...
Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5 Trillion Valuation www.wsj.com/finance/majo...
The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook They spent 800k GPU hours running the experiments themselvesand wrote everything down. huggingface.co/spaces/huggi...
I guess Qwen 4 is coming soon.
A company called Global Laser Enrichment wants to use laser technology to revive thousands of cylinders of uranium-containing waste—essentially treating old nuclear leftovers as an aboveground mine.
Thinking Machines Inkling-2-small is a good base model, but it’s also just a good model - 594B (17B active) - $0.30/$1.00 thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling...
Delaware is considering a new kind of company, an AIC, that is run by an AI and gives AI the ability to enter into contracts, buy/sell property, initiate lawsuits and make legally binding decisions www.delawareinc.com/blog/delawar...
Peak season is the stress test, and Ambi Robotics is installing for it. The Berkeley company is putting new AmbiSort systems into eight facilities before the rush, when volume can jump 25% to 40%. Source: The Robot Report Video: Ambi Robotics #Robotics #WarehouseAutomation #Logistics
Millions of AI agents are descending on a web built for humans. Websites are trying to keep them out, but the arrival of these new visitors could transform the internet.
One ongoing frustration is the lack of effort I see being put towards near-term, achievable crash projects to do good with AI at a national scale, whether those efforts are by the AI labs or by policymakers & NGOs using free models. We should be more ambitious about trying to solve hard problems.
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