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<p>It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t</p><p>Think back. Do you remember when Elon Musk, in a weird online tantrum, and without having seen the film, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/the-odyssey-the-right-woke-xenia-threat">condemned the supposed wokery</a> in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, for getting Elliot Page to play

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Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an estimated 57 percent of all published academic articles exhibited detectable evidence of large language model (LLM) influence, a massive jump from 12 percent in 2023. What’s more, over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews were found to be completely AI-genera

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, but trails frontier models on agentic coding. The post Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Anthropic is a frustrating company.

Embotech is automatically moving 3,500 vehicles around the clock daily across four BMW sites in the U.K. and Germany. The post Embotech and BMW move 1M vehicles with automated driving technology appeared first on The Robot Report .

A framework for staying relevant in the age of artificial intelligence The post In the Age of Borrowed Thinking, How To Become More Valuable as AI Gets Smarter appeared first on Towards Data Science .

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey, I've been working on a PyTorch optimizer called ApexW and figured I'd share it here to get some feedback from people who know more about this stuff than I do.</p> <p>The main goal is to reduce optimizer-state memory usage and see how much faster I can make optimizer steps on larger GPU workloads. I've been experimenting with compact optimizer states and a Triton-based execution path.</p> <p>In my current tests, the Triton + compact-state path was around 1.5

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out…

Gemini Omni is a member of Google's Gemini generative model family, built specifically to create output from any combination of input types, starting with video.

Xpanner's new X1 Piling R6 robot autonomously drives solar posts with one operator, improving placement accuracy while cutting on-site labor. The post Xpanner launches autonomous pile driver for solar farm contruction appeared first on The Robot Report .

Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. Some fake login pages go beyond stealing passwords. They can also capture MFA codes or hijack authenticated sessions, allowing attackers to gain

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturing sectors. According to Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, the campaign has been active since at least July 2025. It's assessed to pick up

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Interesting research: “ AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities ” Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights, decrypting and executing them only upon receiving a secret trigger. Using di

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

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As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones

And that’s not even the worrying part. The post Developers Felt 20% Faster With AI. They Were 19% Slower. appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

<p>Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies</p><p>Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a>-driven disinformation ahead of November’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-midterm-elections-2026">US midterm elections</a>, according to experts, who warn many posts are probably “slipping through the cracks”.</p><p>As ten

Wondering how to set up autonomous AI agents that complete work in the background without constant babysitting? Want a step-by-step process for training AI to run your workflows on its own and even manage other AI agents? In this article, you’ll discover how to build AI playbooks you can trust to run autonomously, remove yourself […] The post Autonomous AI: How to Get AI to Manage Itself appeared first on Social Media Examiner .

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Papers with Code is now open-source with an Apache 2.0-license. </p> <p>The goal is to collaboratively create the best paper interface with the community! </p> <p>Over the past couple of months, I've been working with my buddies Claude and Codex on creating a website that tracks trending AI research, benchmarks and state-of-the-art (SOTA). It's a revival of the original Papers with Code website, which Meta acquired and later shut down. </p> <p>The website is pre

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

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Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could use an upgrade. As the world races to meet rising electricity demand from…

OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the raw reasoning as an encrypted item the user cannot read. The method got past

<p>Investigation finds dozens of ministers and civil servants moved into AI roles as government developed datacentre expansion plans</p><p>The UK’s policy on datacentres and AI was developed without any meetings with environmental groups, an investigation has found.</p><p>The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a “considerable revolving door” shaped the government’s development of “AI growth zones”, a central plank of the former prime minister Keir Starmer’s AI and economic polic

Vercel and ElevenLabs are partnering to bring 14 ElevenLabs models to AI Gateway . To celebrate the launch, all ElevenLabs models are 50% off on AI Gateway for the first 14 days, through November 9th. AI Gateway supports six different types of ElevenLabs audio models: Speech to text: Transcribe recordings or caption live audio as people speak. Streaming text to speech: Start playing audio while a language model is still writing its reply, so users don't have to wait for the full answer. Realtime

Supabase Compute is in private alpha and runs your agents and background jobs inside your Supabase project.

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action

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<p>The AI company’s first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards</p><p>Anthropic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropic-files-listing-stock-market">has filed</a> to go public on the US stock market, revealing for the first time the AI research lab’s financials and all the risks – more than 90 pages of them – that might negatively affect its business.</p><p>The company’s inves

<p>Lack of profits and the threat posed by western countries are raising concern about the sustainability of Beijing’s AI boom</p><p>Trillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.</p><p>The STAR 50 Index, which tracks technology and innovation companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, has plunged 40% since June. Other index