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- The Verge·OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projectsFollowing this week's midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to communities where it is working on data center projects, including that it won't use…
- GitHub Changelog·CodingUsage metrics API adds code review details and addressed rateThe enterprise and organization repository-level Copilot usage metrics reports now show what happens to Copilot code review feedback. A new copilot_code_review object on each repos-1-day row reports how many Copilot-reviewed… The…
- GitHub Changelog·CodingUsage metrics API flags telemetry and version gapsThe Copilot usage metrics API now shows which users are missing client telemetry or are running IDE or extension versions below the usage metrics minimums. New per-user fields appear in… The post Usage metrics API flags telemetry…
- The Verge·AgentsAirbnb is working on an AI travel agentAirbnb plans to roll out an AI agent in the first half of 2027 that will help users plan and book travel, the company said in its Q3 2026 earnings shareholder letter released today. "Today's AI agents are good at simple, routine tasks,…
- TechCrunch·AgentsAirbnb says it's launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
- The Verge·AgentsPerplexity launches its own take on AI agents for workPerplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the…
- AWS Machine Learning·Getting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreWeb Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore returns a synthesized, source-cited answer to a natural-language question in a single tool call, with no search, retrieve, synthesize, and citation pipeline to build. Learn how it works and how to…
- The Decoder·ModelsOpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix themWith GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI is introducing an AI model built to find security vulnerabilities in software, develop exploits, and suggest patches. According to OpenAI, it has already found 81 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox…
- OpenAI·CodingCult.fit builds operational muscle with CodexCult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.
- TechCrunch·AgentsCodingMeta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatarMeta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
- Hugging Face·New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation
- TechCrunch·Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harderMeta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
- TechCrunch·ModelsOpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
- The Decoder·CodingModelsGoogle's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percentGoogle Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited step by step via conversation, and costs just $0.07 per second at 720p, 30 percent…
- The Verge·AgentsMuse has a voice mode nowMeta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article. As you chat…
- AWS Machine Learning·ModelsHow Amazon Marketplace evaluates content quality with Amazon SageMaker AILearn how Amazon Marketplace evaluates A+ Content quality at scale on Amazon SageMaker AI by rendering each product page as a single snapshot, scoring it with a vision-language model fused with OCR readability signals in a CatBoost…
- TechCrunch·CodingOpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic had already successfully made inroads.
- The Verge·ModelsClaude AI can plug directly into your bank accountAnthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You can ask the chatbot…
- TechCrunch·ModelsClaude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance toolWith Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
- The Decoder·CodingModelsBaidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation modelBaidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5…
- The Verge·‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AIOn Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states - with the nation's first Black woman governor elected in Georgia, the country's…
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
- The Verge·Grimes is going to star in an AI movie that’s coming to theatersThe AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts has added a bit of star power: Pop star Grimes is going to appear in the movie. Billed as "the first AI film to come to theatres," Gods Don't Give Gifts is a notable test case for the…
- The Verge·ModelsOpenAI says its new cybersecurity model is better at not hacking other companiesOpenAI is launching GPT-6 Cyber, the latest version of its cybersecurity AI model, which it says is better at finding vulnerabilities and less likely to go rogue and hack other platforms in the process. OpenAI says that during testing,…
- The Decoder·AgentsModelsNo AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmarkSemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent. Claude Opus 5.5 leads narrowly over Gemini 4 Carbon.…
- TechCrunch·AgentsAxiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematicsAs AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
- The Decoder·AgentsModelsTencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI modelsTencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores 35 points, solid but behind Kimi K3.1 Pro. On hard math…
- TechCrunch·AgentsCodingDropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructureThe deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
- The Decoder·AgentsCodingMeta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developersMeta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The…
- The Verge·The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boomToday, I’m talking with Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book, Where Does My Stuff Come From? The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply Chains.…
- The Verge·You can post AI music straight to SoundCloud from ElevenLabsAfter partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to…
- TechCrunch·AgentsAina's smart ring has a screen, a joystick, and a mic so you can talk to AI agentsAina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.
- The Decoder·After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansionOpenAI is responding to the clear vote by US voters against new data centers with voluntary commitments for future sites. The pledges only apply to facilities OpenAI operates itself, though, and a large share of its infrastructure is…
- The Decoder·Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first timeAnthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The article Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time appeared first on The Decoder .
- The Decoder·ModelsResearchOpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstaclesOpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed…
- The Decoder·Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still plannedTech companies are cutting internal AI spending, and Apple is the latest to follow suit. The article Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned appeared first on The Decoder .
- TechCrunch·AgentsBox taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval systemThe system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
- TechCrunch·A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AIWhile frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
- TechCrunch·Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
- OpenAI·AgentsModelsGPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agentsIntroducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
- OpenAI·CodingModelsMerge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technologyMerge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
- Latent Space·Open source[AINews] It's Swapping SeasonNovember 4, 2026 — OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
- MIT News·CodingClearing up a robot’s fuzzy memoryA new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
- OpenAI·CodingBusiness & policySetting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructureOpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
- TechCrunch·CodingApple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usageThe tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
- TechCrunch·After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be comingData center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
- OpenAI·Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimizationFlipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
- OpenAI·ResearchFranklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment researchStarting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
- Hugging Face·A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.
- TechCrunch·AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here's how they faredAI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
- TechCrunch·Nothing CEO says company's mysterious AI-first device is dropping next monthWhile it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
- TechCrunch·AgentsCodingAlmost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company saysDuring its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
- TechCrunch·OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 electionOpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
- TechCrunch·AgentsCodingMeta acquires AI coding startup ConductorThe startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
- TechCrunch·Open sourceBusiness & policyOpen source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how…
- Latent Space·[AINews] Behind Latent Space: Kill My SaaS, Jev & AI in 2026 | AIEi ShanghaiNovember 3, 2026 — A quiet day lets us share some behind the senes.
- GitHub Changelog·CodingOpen sourceGitHub Copilot is now available in Xcode's coding assistantYou can now work with GitHub Copilot directly in Xcode's built-in coding assistant, bringing Copilot into your native Xcode workflow. The integration is now in public preview, available starting with… The post GitHub Copilot is…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingUse decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore EvaluationsSome agent-evaluation questions are narrow and repeatable, and decision models answer exactly that kind of question. This post shows how to connect two decision models, Jev and Strands Decider, to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations…
- Hugging Face·Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsBusiness & policySmart Approvals in Amazon Quick: Human oversight where it mattersSmart Approvals in Amazon Quick reviews eligible agent actions within your existing controls, reducing unnecessary approval prompts while keeping consequential decisions with a person. See how policy sets the boundary, how a classifier…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingFour layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working codeIn production AI agents, context management is the real bottleneck. This post presents a four-layer context engineering framework (architecture, prompts, file-based tools, and verification agents), implemented in working code from Deep…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsModelsHow Indegene is modernizing and scaling enterprise data quality in life sciencesThis post explores how Indegene built a production-grade, LLM-powered Data Quality Agent in its NEXT Unified Data Platform on AWS. The agent generates context-aware data quality rules, validates them, and produces ready-to-run SQL and…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingHow U Mobile built agentic telco operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreU Mobile, Malaysia's newest 5G network provider, built AiDaH, an agentic AI operations platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that moves beyond AI assistance to autonomous action across telco operations. Nine months after production…
- Simon Willison·AgentsModelsdatasette-llm 0.1a10Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. Tags: datasette , llm
- OpenAI·CodingBusiness & policyOpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
- OpenAI·AgentsA thousand fewer paths to rootOpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
- OpenAI·ModelsDaybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
- GitHub Changelog·CodingModelsBYOK and enterprise custom models in the Copilot usage APIThe Copilot usage metrics API now shows bring your own key (BYOK) usage across GitHub Copilot, so you can separate it from Copilot-hosted model usage. Reports cover two kinds of… The post BYOK and enterprise custom models in the…
- Simon Willison·AgentsCodingdatasette-apps 0.3a0Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette Agent . This release…
- OpenAI·CodingIntroducing Images 2.6Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
- OpenAI·AgentsModelsDevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 SolDevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.
- Simon Willison·AgentsResearchdatasette-agent 0.5a0Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent . The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a table or query…
- Simon Willison·Modelsllm 0.37.1Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM , with contributions from Steven Huang , Tao An , Arjan Mossel , and XQ . Tags: llm
- GitHub Changelog·Agent skills & MCPAgentsDependabot version updates support Agent Package ManagerYou can now keep your AI agent skills, prompts, and instructions up to date with Dependabot version updates for Agent Package Manager (APM). Dependabot opens pull requests to update supported… The post Dependabot version updates…
- MIT News·Open sourceResearchBuilding connections across the research infrastructureMIT.nano and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition gathered facility leaders and technology professionals from across the nation to explore ways to make shared-access facilities more connected.
- Hugging Face·StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents
- Google DeepMind·AgentsAgentic cheminformatics with Google AntigravityLearn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsResearchBring structured and unstructured data together with Amazon QuickAmazon Quick brings structured and unstructured data together in one experience. In this post, you connect Amazon S3 as a knowledge base, enrich a dataset, build a Space, and create a custom chat agent that answers business questions…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingServiceNow on-behalf-of token exchange with Bedrock AgentCore GatewayLearn how to configure Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway for an on-behalf-of (OBO) token exchange with Microsoft Entra ID, so an AI agent can call the ServiceNow REST API while preserving the calling user's identity. AgentCore Gateway…
- AWS Machine Learning·How Gen Digital built Norton Revamp’s AI-curated News Engine with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web SearchGen Digital built Norton Revamp, a generative AI-powered professional reputation management platform, with an AI-curated News Engine grounded by Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. See how the Gen team delivers real-time, cited…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingBuild a semantic layer for agentic AI with EDB Postgres AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreLearn how to build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI inside EDB Postgres AI and query it from a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Business meaning, join paths, and access control all live in Postgres, with GRANT…
- AWS Machine Learning·ModelsBuilding ultra-low-latency voice AI applications on AWSLearn how Cartesia, an AWS Partner, uses purpose-built State Space Models and AWS infrastructure to deliver sub-100ms text-to-speech and speech-to-text at global scale, and how to deploy its Sonic model on Amazon SageMaker AI or…
- Hugging Face·ModelsPalette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language
- AWS Machine Learning·CodingIntroducing India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock now offers in-country inference in India for Kimi K3, keeping processing within the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. This post explains the global and geographic cross-Region inference options and shares example code for…
- Simon Willison·ModelsResearchQwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, tooYesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post",…
- GitHub Changelog·AgentsCodingGitHub Copilot is now available in JetBrains AirYou can now delegate coding tasks, guide execution, and review results with GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Air. The integration uses the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and supports tasks in your… The post GitHub Copilot is now available…
- OpenAI·CodingAccelerating engineering for the physical worldDiscover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.
- OpenAI·How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAICisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.
- OpenAI·CodingHeimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AIDiscover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.
- Latent Space·AgentsModels[AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loopEditing Qwen’s weights to reduce reasoning loops, DeepSeek’s super-agent prototype, and the GDPx benchmark.
- OpenAI·OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs OfficerJill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.
- Hugging Face·CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency
- Hugging Face·ModelsTransformers Model Integration Contracts
- Simon Willison·Modelsllm 0.37Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra , plus a new llm openai endpoint…
- Latent Space·ModelsBuilding AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of LegoraEvals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model
- Latent Space·AgentsBuilding Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of LegoraLegora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work? Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of Legora, one of the…
- MIT News·Open sourceResearchPowering up for a pivotal momentFrom a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
- OpenAI·Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAIOpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.
- OpenAI·ResearchRewarding defenders with bigger bug bountiesOpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.
- Google AI·The latest AI news we announced in October 2026Here are Google’s latest AI updates from October 2026
- AWS Machine Learning·Open sourcePrepare web content for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Crawl4AIThis post shows how to use Crawl4AI, an open source web crawler, as a content preparation layer for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, handling JavaScript rendering, selective extraction, and custom metadata enrichment before web content…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsBuild efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AIAgentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale. This post shows how to use sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD) to…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsModelsAgentic engineering intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreLearn how to build a multi-agent engineering assistant that compresses aerospace component substitution evaluation from days to minutes, using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and the Strands Agents SDK to…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingHow Circle K accelerated DevOps incident triage to under 15 minutes with Amazon BedrockCircle K's DevOps team cut incident triage from 45-60 minutes to under 15 by building an agentic triage system on Amazon Bedrock. This post walks through the architecture, the initial Amazon Bedrock Flows implementation, the migration…
- OpenAI·CodingScaling Git at OpenAIHow OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
- OpenAI·Introducing the Grid Protectors ProgramOpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.
- Simon Willison·The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies , a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by…
- OpenAI·ModelsResearchLifeValIntroducing LifeVal, a benchmark measuring how well AI helps people complete everyday tasks, from finding childcare to managing finances and government paperwork.
- MIT News·CodingOpen sourceRegina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discoveryThe MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.
- OpenAI·CodingQodo builds context into AI code review with CodexQodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.
- OpenAI·OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security ModernizationOpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll to advise on responsible AI for national security modernization, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies.
- Simon Willison·Quoting Kyle KingsburyMore broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to rely on as…
- Simon Willison·How We Took Over ChatGPT AccountsHow We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML previews…
- Simon Willison·Agent skills & MCPAgentsdatasette-llm 0.1a9Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default model used by…
- Latent Space·AgentsAgents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial WorkArca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.
- Latent Space·[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it
- AWS Machine Learning·ModelsManaging Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teamsThis post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform defaults, and operate a review cadence. Written for…
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingPreview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtimeAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that keeps a Vite…
- MIT News·Open sourceResearchMIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 FellowsFive MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
- MIT News·Open sourceQ&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Chara Podimata discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.
- AWS Machine Learning·AgentsCodingHow Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon BedrockWorldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active exceptions by 75%, improved time-to-cash by four…
- Google DeepMind·Business & policySpeeding up planning decisions with AIGoogle DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times
- OpenAI·AgentsCodingMaking it easier for websites to express AI training preferencesOpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
- OpenAI·Business & policyCommunity safety report and new protections for teensOpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
- Latent Space·AgentsCoding[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent ConferenceMistral’s open-weight release, frontier monitoring, and the day’s AI Twitter and Reddit recaps.
- OpenAI·Fair use benefits everyoneOpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.
- Simon Willison·API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptionsAPI credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of…
- Simon Willison·AgentsBuilding a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class modelsHow I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible…
- Latent Space·ModelsCan Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual ReasoningA new decoy counting benchmark exposes a gap between seeing and reasoning. Elorian’s Glimpse tries to bridge it by thinking with images.
- Simon Willison·Agent skills & MCPAgentsQuoting Ben Hylakevery product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're…
- Hugging Face·Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
- Latent Space·Models[AINews] Gemini 4 Carbon tops leaderboards, launches for cyber defendersGoogle’s new frontier model leads independent evals, with access initially limited to trusted defenders.
- Hugging Face·Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
- Hugging Face·ModelsOpen sourceWelcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face
- Hugging Face·Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
- Simon Willison·ModelsQuoting Ted SandersIn general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in…
- Latent Space·AgentsWhy Agents Love SupabasePaul Copplestone and Ant Wilson on building the backend for AI agents
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
- MIT News·Business & policy3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining eraProfessor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to rethink how infrastructure is designed, built, and managed.
- Simon Willison·AgentsCodingThe October inflection point for vibe game developmentI've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software…
- Simon Willison·Quoting Terk TerkowitzIf your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI…
- Latent Space·Coding[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"Since coding is solved, why code for the job?
- MIT News·Making machines that can listenProfessor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
- MIT News·Open sourceLearner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insightsPrabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.
- Latent Space·AgentsModelsHow Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the HandsKatelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang on Opus 5.5, the Claude Platform, and the engineering behind AI agents.
- Latent Space·AgentsModelsHow Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the HandsKatelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang join Latent Space to explain the engineering behind the Claude Platform: launching Opus 5.5, separating the model’s “brain” from the agent’s “hands,” scaling APIs, and building reliable managed agents. A…
- Hugging Face·ModelsBuild specialized multimodal models with LFM3
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGenie 4: A new generation of world simulationGenie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
- Latent Space·AgentsCodingCoding From the Himalayas With an Offline AI AgentHow to set up and run an offline coding agent using OpenCode, Ollama and Qwen.
- Latent Space·[AINews] Anthropic files for $2T IPO in 2 weeks: 1400% growth rate, 48% of revenue through cloud partners, 85% margin, $1B op profit in Q2, $134B cash in bank and $10B lifetime burnThe S-1, the numbers, and the reactions.
- Simon Willison·AgentsModelsGPT-6.1 TerraGPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer use: We’re introducing GPT-6.1 Terra , a…
- Simon Willison·Quoting Jason KoeblerBecause big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is…
- MIT News·Open sourceAt New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global networkA cross-section of the MIT community convened discussions on topics ranging from data centers and super pollutants to agriculture and education.
- Google AI·Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brainLearn AI literacy via Google’s latest AI Quests lesson on neuroscience, “Polar Peaks.”
- Latent Space·Open source[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speedWe have Fable at home... or so we are being told by paid shills
- Simon Willison·battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player mapRelease: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - four way…
- Simon Willison·ModelsResearchQuick StudyTool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my previous experiment…
- MIT News·Open sourceAt MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AIIn Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cultural needs.
- Simon Willison·ModelsOpen sourceIntroducing Kimi K3.1 ProIntroducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster,…
- MIT News·CodingOpen sourceReinforcing the value of human understanding at MITDuring the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
- Latent Space·AI Is Getting Good at Math. Here’s Why.AI models are solving more mathematical problems. A pattern is emerging in their successes that could help us predict which problems they’ll solve next.
- Latent Space·[AINews] Black Octoberthe Cyber onslaught continues.
- MIT News·ModelsQ&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mindAssistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
- Hugging Face·ModelsDoes Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up
- Hugging Face·AgentsTurning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
- MIT News·This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
- Latent Space·AgentsWhy AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEOElastic GPUs, sandbox growth, and the economics of the agent cloud
- Google DeepMind·Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest typesA global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
- Hugging Face·How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications
- Hugging Face·Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.
- Google AI·CodingSoutheast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billionWidespread AI adoption is propelling Southeast Asia's digital economy to a projected $368 billion in 2026 and $1 trillion by 2035.
- Hugging Face·Open sourceHugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively
- Hugging Face·AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms
- Hugging Face·MPS in PyTorch 2.15
- MIT News·ModelsOpen sourceWhy teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliableA model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.
- Hugging Face·TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever
- MIT News·ResearchGiving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials worldNew research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.
- MIT News·Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovationThe 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
- Hugging Face·ModelsWelcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
- MIT News·Open sourceState of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behindMIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.
- MIT News·ModelsAI model decodes the language cells use to communicateA new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
- Google DeepMind·CodingAccelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google AntigravityAccelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.
- Hugging Face·Apertus 1.5 Release Notes
- MIT News·Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and societyIn a new book, Professor Eric So explores how the technology affects our thinking skills.
- Hugging Face·ModelsOpen sourceWelcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
- Hugging Face·Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers
- MIT News·ResearchResearchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks outA new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsBusiness & policyGoogle DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detectionLearn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.
- MIT News·How artificial neural networks build their own learning machineryMachine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.
- MIT News·Open sourceMIT Lincoln Laboratory hosts National Security Commission on Emerging BiotechnologyRoadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsDeveloping Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely
- Hugging Face·AgentsRun fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini 4 Argon for Robotics
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
- MIT News·Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversationsProfessor Deb Roy contends there should be someone who is “answerable” for every piece of text in public life, no matter its origins.
- MIT News·CodingOpen source3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.
- Google AI·Introducing Playground: Create and play custom gamesPlayground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsEmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
- Google AI·The latest AI news we announced in September 2026Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
- Google DeepMind·Introducing SynthID BioProof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
- Google AI·Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
- Google AI·Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customersWe’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.
- Google DeepMind·CodingAdvancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memoryIntroducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
- Google AI·ResearchNew experts join Google’s AI & Economy teamWe are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
- Google AI·CodingCo-creating the future of fashion with GoogleGoogle worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.
- Google AI·Making global data easier to exploreGoogle and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Google AI·AI for Societal ImpactExplore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.
- Google AI·Building AI to accelerate science and improve livesThe true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …
- Google AI·AI for everyone in every languageWe’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.
- Google AI·New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLASWe’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.
- Google AI·CodingResearchWatch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.
- Google AI·AgentsDevFest is backDevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.
- Google AI·3 ways to prep for your next big race with SearchSearch can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
- Google AI·Get ready for the game with new football features in SearchTrack live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.
- Google DeepMind·AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genomeAlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
- Google DeepMind·ModelsIntroducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
- Google DeepMind·Business & policyProactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
- Google DeepMind·ModelsIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
- Google DeepMind·AgentsCodingIntroducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
- Google DeepMind·ModelsGemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
- Google DeepMind·Business & policyPiloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluationsPiloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
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