US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line
Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. But…
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts
Meta reportedly had hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send suicide, sex, and drug-related prompts to chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI. In a single…
Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China
Taiwanese authorities have raided the offices of Super Micro Computer and several local partner companies. The article Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia…
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.
Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls
Deepseek's new DSpark framework boosts per-user response speed by 60 to 85 percent. A small model proposes token candidates that the larger model checks in batches,…
Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A Non-Invasive MEG Brain-to-Text Pipeline Decoding Typed Sentences at 61% Word Accuracy
Meta AI releases Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive MEG brain-to-text pipeline reaching 61% word accuracy with open training code. The post Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A…
The AI jobs debate just got messier
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior…
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.
OpenClaw Releases iOS and Android Companion Node Apps That Connect a Phone to a Self-Hosted AI Agent Gateway
OpenClaw's iOS and Android apps are companion nodes, not standalone chatbots. Each phone pairs to a self-hosted Gateway over WebSocket. This adds device hardware — camera,…
HTML table extractor
Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and…
PyGraphistry Implementation Workflow for Interactive Graph Intelligence Pipelines in Security Analytics and Risk Investigation
We build a Colab-ready PyGraphistry workflow for interactive graph analytics on enterprise access data. We generate a synthetic dataset of users, devices, IPs, services, roles, and…
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for U.S. users
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and…
NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Turns Biomolecular Models Into Callable Skills for AI Agents in Drug Discovery
NVIDIA's open-source BioNeMo Agent Toolkit turns biomolecular models like OpenFold3, DiffDock, and GenMol into documented, callable skills for AI agents. Each skill describes a model's purpose,…
Count the number of Safari tabs
Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags:…
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in
Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute…
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including…
Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data
Meta is restricting its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these AI tools from being incorporated into its own training…
Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour
An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced…
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might…