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xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after massive data breach

xAI's AI coding agent "Grok Build" drew heavy criticism after users discovered it uploaded all files in a directory to xAI's Google Cloud servers. One user reported that SSH keys, password databases, ...
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has officially released its AI model Hy3. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 295 billion total parameters. Of those, 21 billion are active at any given time, plus 3.8 ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Alibaba's Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.8, says model is "second only to Fable 5" Alibaba says Qwen 3.8 should outperform Qwen 3.7-Max, especially in coding ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after GPU demand maxes out in 48 hours Current subscribers aren't affected, and new slots will open up again gradually. Moonshot also ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order Xi Jinping used the World AI Conference in ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could finds its first big customer in Anthropic Meta is reportedly in talks with Anthropic to rent out compute capacity from its ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and ...
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Elon Musk admits xAI "was not built right first time around," launches full restructuring

Elon Musk's AI company xAI is going through a major restructuring. Musk acknowledged on X that the company "was not built right first time around" and is now being rebuilt from the foundations up.
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Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

Mark Zuckerberg admitted to weaknesses in the company's restructuring during an internal town hall. The AI agents Meta reorganized around are progressing slower than planned, Zuckerberg said. His AI ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

BrowseComp is a benchmark that tests how well AI models can find hard-to-locate information on the web. When Anthropic turned its Claude Opus 4.6 model loose on the benchmark in a multi-agent setup, ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...