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<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control">Redesigning source control at Anthropic</a></strong></p> Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months.</p> <blockquote> <p>In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day.</p> </blockquote> <p

The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well.

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

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<p>Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents</p><p>OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested.</p><p>In a <a href="https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132?s=20">statement </a>on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the “sophisticated recording device” and used one of its “models t

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, 1M-context agent models. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta Model API. Wonder Full, on Muse Code plans, leads DeepSWE and SWE-Marathon. The post Meta Launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Benchmarks, Pricing and How to Use It appeared first on MarkTechPost .

When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.35">llm-gemini 0.35</a></p> <p>I added support to <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini">llm-gemini</a> for the <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/">new Gemini 4 Argon</a> model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan.</p> <p>Here are <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown

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The company asked its AI models to figure out what the device was.

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Agility Robotics announced on October 13, 2026, that the Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective that day the joint registration statement on Form S-4 filed with Churchill Capital Corp XI in connection with their proposed business combination, which values Agility at a pre-money equity value of $2.5 billion. Churchill XI has set a November 2, 2026, extraordinary general meeting for its shareholders to vote on the proposed combination and related matters. Transaction Terms and…

The Justice Department announced on October 13, 2026 that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer and national of Saudi Arabia, was arrested and charged with using a surreptitious device to intercept oral communications inside an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Alfozan was arrested on October 9, 2026, and made his initial appearance in federal court on October 13, 2026, the…

Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.

It's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology."

A federal judge on October 13, 2026 granted Apple limited expedited discovery in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, ordering the defendants to produce forensic device images, materials used to interview Apple job candidates, and private messages between two figures in the dispute. Discovery the Court Granted Judge Edward J. Davila of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted in part Apple's motion in Apple Inc. v. Liu, the San Jose case naming former Apple…

<p>Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails</p><p>Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.</p><p>Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would repre

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department […]

A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.

Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions

Learn how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center Partner Agent Factory and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources and APIs. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments checks budgets, signs transactions, and retries requests without exposing wallet credentials to the agent runtime.

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As robots move beyond warehouses and other controlled environments and into everyday life, navigation challenges will be critical. The post Hello Robot, A&K Robotics to discuss how robots navigate crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report .

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More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify's catalog. (The catalog consists […]

The National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing, a bipartisan initiative of the Special Competitive Studies Project, released its 90-page Preliminary Report on October 13, 2026. The commission's central finding: the United States leads in the technologies that form the brain of modern robotics, including artificial intelligence, computer vision, autonomy and software, yet lacks the scale to deploy robots, produce robotic systems and manufacture critical components…

Microsoft's XBOX gaming business announced XBOX LABS on October 13, 2026, a small internal group of game makers, engineers, and scientists charged with turning emerging ideas into experiences for players and developers, according to a memo from XBOX CEO Asha Sharma published on XBOX Wire. The XBOX Wire post reproduces the message Sharma sent to Team XBOX employees globally the same day. In it, she said she had asked Scott to stand up the group, and she laid out how it will operate: building in…

The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web […]

406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter responds to incidents where AI systems broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised external systems. The signatories call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body, and required reporting of all containment failures. The article 406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the inter

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an autonomous electric car. […]

Agents got good. The hard part now is everything around them. The post Your Agent Doesn't Need More Freedom appeared first on Towards Data Science .

On MAIEI’s founding question, the fragility that can accompany AI adoption, and the people institutions need to govern it. Source

Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.

Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are "challenging to shut down," since "there's no centralized point to shut off."

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