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The Download: A humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom
A startup called Tau Robotics sent a humanoid robot into a San Francisco apartment to clean it, and the person inside the apartment was a reporter from MIT Technology Review who'd signed up off an X…
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AI Firms Quietly Seek to Buy Your Work Emails and Files
Someone named Nick emailed me recently with an offer. Anthropic and OpenAI, he said, are paying media...
Alexa for Shopping adds text-based ordering and recommendations
Amazon is pushing Alexa for Shopping further into the text message, the place where a lot of people already...
Enterprises Pair Smaller Language Models With LLMs in Tiered Architectures
Enterprise AI deployment is splitting into layers. Instead of routing every task through one large language...
Ramp Data Shows AI Spending Stalling as Anthropic IPO Nears
06 Anthropic adds Claude bank access via Plaid to track spending
07 Tau AI learns from real robots as humanoid cleans apartment, not laundry
08 Baidu Releases Open-Source ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base With 280 Billion Parameters
09 Inside Anthropic's AI speedup and OpenAI's faster Images 2.6 model
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LLMs & Generative AI
View All Enterprises Pair Smaller Language Models With LLMs in Tiered Architectures
Enterprise AI deployment is splitting into layers. Instead of routing every task through one large...
Anthropic adds Claude bank access via Plaid to track spending
Claude can now look at your bank account, though it still can't touch your money.
Inside Anthropic's AI speedup and OpenAI's faster Images 2.6 model
Anthropic has spent the past year telling the public it's deliberately "pacing the frontier,"...
NASA Zero-Shot Detector Uses MODTRAN Spectra to Identify Gas Plumes From Space
NASA's EMIT instrument, mounted on the International Space Station, logs hundreds of thousands of...
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Apple cracks the door open to Siri AI as Wiz details enterprise AI agents
Apple just handed developers a key to Siri AI, something the company almost never does this early...
Anthropic restricts Claude from recreating specific video game clones
Claude Code just got a new rule baked into its system prompt: no cloning existing video games.
22 nations call for global AI oversight as the agentic web arrives
Twenty-two countries, including France, Germany, and Japan, signed a joint call this week for...
DeepSeek Proposes Super-Agent Architecture to Automate AI Coding Workflows
DeepSeek published a technical proposal on October 31 for what it calls a "super-agent"...
Business & Startups
View All Ramp Data Shows AI Spending Stalling as Anthropic IPO Nears
Something strange is happening in the numbers behind the AI boom. Companies are feeding more tokens...
OpenAI Could Be IPO Ready in 2027, Says President Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman put a date on it. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday,...
Perplexity launches Teammates AI agents for work, running 24/7 like OpenAI's Dots
Perplexity rolled out "Teammates" on Thursday, its own entry in the crowded field of always-on AI...
Meta lets US users video chat with Muse AI avatar to deepen connection
Meta opened up video chatting with Muse, its consumer AI agent, to every user in the US on...
Research & Benchmarks
View All Alexa for Shopping adds text-based ordering and recommendations
Amazon is pushing Alexa for Shopping further into the text message, the place where a lot of people...
SemiAnalysis: No AI agent scores above 12%; safety filters reshuffle rankings
SemiAnalysis built a benchmark meant to stop AI companies from grading their own homework in a...
Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge Across Recent Models
Memory prices are climbing, and GPU supply isn't keeping pace with what modern AI models demand.
Anthropic FlashProve system aims to verify AI model identities
Anthropic published a blog post Tuesday describing a tool meant to answer a question that's gotten...
Policy & Regulation
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Anthropic-backed Public First spent USD 15M boosting Bores, who finished second
Public First, the biggest spender inside the Leading the Future super PAC network, put roughly $15...
OpenAI Hires Ex-Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in National Security Role
OpenAI brought on Dan Driscoll, who stepped down as Secretary of the Army earlier this year, to a...
NYT and other outlets sue Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times filed suit against Brave Software on Monday in federal court in Manhattan,...
NYT and other publications sue Brave over alleged AI scraping, paywall bypass
The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel have...
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The Download: A humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom
A startup called Tau Robotics sent a humanoid robot into a San Francisco apartment to clean it, and...
Former X Product Lead Nikita Bier Warns AI Researchers Face Nuremberg Trials
Nikita Bier didn't mince words on Tuesday night. The former X product lead posted that AI...
Apple’s Earnings Call Mentions AI a Record 45 Times
Tim Cook's team said the word "AI" 45 times on Tuesday's earnings call, a record for the company...
Rural India Holds 57% of 958M Internet Users, Yet AI Computing Access Lags
In Rajasthan's Dholpur district, roughly 97,000 students attend about 501 schools, but only 68% of...
Open Source
View All Baidu Releases Open-Source ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base With 280 Billion Parameters
Baidu put a new large language model on Hugging Face this week, and it comes with an unusual catch:...
Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy for Developers with Nemotron Open Models
Chris Alexiuk spends his days at NVIDIA making open large language models usable for developers who...
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
Thinking Machines Lab put out Inkling 2 Small on Tuesday, the first entry in its second Inkling...
Airbnb develops AI travel agent to handle trip planning beyond routine tasks
Airbnb told shareholders Wednesday it's building an AI agent to handle trip planning, with a launch...
Industry Applications
View All Tau AI learns from real robots as humanoid cleans apartment, not laundry
A humanoid robot wiped down a kitchen counter in a San Francisco apartment last month, controlled...
NVIDIA AI Agents Run Kubernetes Access Checks in AI Factory Operations
NVIDIA site reliability engineers running DGX SuperPOD clusters used to chase training slowdowns...
NVIDIA's FOX blueprint coordinates AI agents to investigate production issues
A circuit board fails on the line. Someone has to figure out why, and fast. That usually means...
Mazda Uses OpenAI's Codex to Test Dozens of Aerodynamic Design Variations
Mazda's aerodynamics team is running vehicle nose shapes through OpenAI's Codex tool to see how...