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Le Chonk pairs 49 billion active parameters with a mixture of experts design and solves 93% of challenges on the Cybench security benchmark, Mistral said, with full open weights promised by the end of October.
By The Poliety Staff · 5 paragraphs
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The release spans 372 families of results including progress tied to the Riemann hypothesis and a faster integer multiplication method, though OpenAI says some unformalized results could still contain errors.
By The Poliety Staff · 5 paragraphs
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Hacker News · 13h ago · 942 points on HN
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Hacker News · 22h ago · 1827 points on HN
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Hacker News · 19h ago · 292 points on HN
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Hacker News · 17h ago · 206 points on HN
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Hacker News · 9h ago · 180 points on HN
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Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced...
The Verge · 2h ago
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On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
TechCrunch · 14h ago
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Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
TechCrunch · 14h ago
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The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
TechCrunch · 17h ago
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Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API , as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I had GPT-6 Astra...
Simon Willison · 12h ago
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Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
TechCrunch · 18h ago
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"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
TechCrunch · 19h ago
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:...
Simon Willison · 11h ago
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OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends...
The Verge · 12h ago
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Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon...
Simon Willison · 11h ago
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Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4 . Tags: llm , mistral , llm-reasoning
Simon Willison · 13h ago
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Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows....
Crunchbase News · yesterday
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The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
TechCrunch · 20h ago
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Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task.
TechCrunch · 20h ago
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Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
TechCrunch · 21h ago
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Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register now to join and save up to $100, and get a...
TechCrunch · 21h ago
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Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
OpenAI · 19h ago
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Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month...
The Verge · 22h ago
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The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
Ars Technica · 23h ago
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My comment on Mistral Large 4 - Hacker News. wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this one: llm -m...
Simon Willison · 17h ago
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Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human review.
OpenAI · 23h ago
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With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either...
The Verge · 18h ago
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The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers.
TechCrunch · 2d ago
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Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this : I want you to write some computer game music for me. First design simple text based format for the music and build an...
Simon Willison · 20h ago
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Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.
OpenAI · yesterday
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OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
TechCrunch · 2d ago
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Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK...
The Verge · 2d ago
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The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes...
The Verge · yesterday
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This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable...
The Verge · 2d ago
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An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other...
The Verge · 2d ago
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Hugging Face Blog · yesterday
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A small win for US open source
Latent Space · yesterday
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Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training...
TechCrunch · 2d ago
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The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just...
Simon Willison · yesterday
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People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze...
The Verge · 2d ago