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Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and ARP Group announced on November 1, 2026, a partnership to establish an AI-native and blockchain-enabled wholesale bank headquartered in Bahrain. The venture holds in-principle approval from the Central Bank of Bahrain and will begin regulated activities only after securing final authorisation. The announcement was made on the sidelines of Gateway Gulf 2026. The proposed bank is meant to…

The company said these tighter restrictions apply even if the question asked "appears harmless."

Beyond RAG: How modern architectures engineer precise, cost-efficient context for enterprise AI agents. The post The Enterprise Context Layer: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page. To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc. It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and

Vibe-coded clones of Adobe software are shaking things up.

Is there a service or site you can sell a problem set (reasonably main stream), that no LLM can currently solve? It seems it possibly high value to a lab, and useful to have solved for the customer. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326374 Points: 1 # Comments: 3

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute. The article Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would appeared firs

Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. This could put mentally vulnerable users at risk. Anthropic's Claude, the model its makers anthropomorphize the most, was the only one that consistently refused to play along. The article E

Vision models often fail before they even start reasoning. A few well-placed labels on the image fix more than any prompt tweak. The post Fix the Image, Not the Prompt appeared first on Towards Data Science .

When I first heard about the new $149 HomePod Mini 2 at Apple's Welcome Home event last month, I was disappointed. It's been six years since Apple launched its entry-level smart speaker, and all it got in the second gen was a chip bump, some color glowy stuff, and better AirPlay? For $50 more than […]

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A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and Western models occasionally adopt official Beijing positions too. The language of the prompt had an especially strong effect on the political slant of responses. The article Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds appeared first on The Decoder .

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>For context, I am a new postgraduate student in machine learning (but not a very good one). I have produced some augmented datasets (TIFF files where each file contains one object to be detected / classified) which I used in training deep learning models. I used fairly aggressive cropping (random crops between 0 and 90%) and more moderate zooms (random values between 0 and 20%). My supervisor wants me to characterise these datasets to see how augmentation has ch

OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device. Logging out doesn't automatically free up a spot. The policy will likely hit users who've been juggling multiple cheap subscriptions to maximize usage, pushing them toward pricier options like buying extra credits. The article OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage appeared first on The D

A small NumPy reproduction of subliminal learning, and a short argument for why it works The post A Neural Network Learned to Read Digits From Pure Noise appeared first on Towards Data Science .

A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops sharply. The article Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work appeared first on The Decoder .

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Take these steps to avoid falling for phone scams, as sophisticated AI tools become cheaper and more accessible.

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OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this quota, while simple instant chats do not count toward it. In practice, this is likely to result in a decline in ChatGPT’s quality for heavy users on lower-cost plans. The article OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing appea

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi there, wanted a suggestion from the community regarding the hardware to run local models. The first option was just to get a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM, and the second one was to invest into Mac Mini (256 GB SSD and 32 GB RAM), and get an iPAD as well</p> <p>PS; I have access to B200, and multiple A100s/L40s at my Univ which I can definitely use for training purposes, and I just wanted to get a device to run local inference</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted

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At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.

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The amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.

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Hi HN, I kept wiring Ben Eater's 8-bit computer wrong, so I built a realistic virtual breadboard editor. Some of the nice features are side-by-side diff, scope, schematics auto-sync, auto-router (BBRouter stands for breadboard router), and my favorites: upload from the real Arduino IDE and connect to your AI with MCP, let Claude & co build it or help you troubleshoot. The link is the SAP-1 running. You can orbit it, probe a hole with the scope, slow the clock down, play with the virtual displays

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been noticing that a lot of techniques seem to repeat across modalities with just a different name.</p> <p>For example, tokenisation, masking (MLM / MAE / audio masking), diffusion, next-token / next-frame prediction, etc.</p> <p>Is there an existing taxonomy or mental model that groups ML techniques by their underlying pattern rather than by modality (NLP / vision / audio)?</p> <p>This will help me to group the research papers and then make reference to wo

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