How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
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Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are…
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's…
Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands
AI summary NVIDIA has detailed how its TensorRT Edge-LLM, a lightweight C++ inference runtime, lets embedded developers prototype AI models on the new 64GB version of DGX Spark and later deploy them on Jetson Thor and other Thor platforms. A command-line tool called trtedge fetches a model, builds optimized engines and can start a chat with Nemotron-3.5 Lightning, whose first download is about 21GB. The model can also be served locally through an OpenAI-compatible API. With DSpark speculative decoding using three draft tokens, average generation on HumanEval prompts rose from 73.4 to 126.9 tokens per second, with peak memory at 27.9GB.
The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped…
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I read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to – video explainer
Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement…
Reddit CEO Says Google’s AI Mode ‘Does Not Drive Traffic’
AI summary Reddit told shareholders on Thursday that weekly search referrals fell by over 1 million on average in October, after a meaningful drop in the third quarter. CEO Steve Huffman named Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode as the main suspected cause, saying AI Mode "does not drive traffic." U.S. logged-out daily uniques slid from 30.1 million to 27.3 million, while quarterly revenue rose 53% to $895 million. The company will also trial a version of the site requiring login in unnamed markets outside the U.S. this quarter.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization
>"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited…
A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making
AI summary An AI agent built on Claude Sonnet 5 selected a gene therapy from 19 options, chose the target brain region and injection coordinates, and then ran surgery on an epileptic mouse using a motorized rig, according to Exin Therapeutics CEO Gabriel Ocana-Santero. A licensed veterinarian signed off on each irreversible step, and the agent logged 32 observations through a camera during the operation. Midway, it detected a calibration fault and refused to proceed until Ocana-Santero corrected the code manually; Claude Opus 5 and Opus 5.5 had declined the task entirely. The mouse recovered well, and the results have not yet been peer-reviewed.
What Happened With Gemini?
I am a newbie to AI but have been using Gemini for some proceedings with legal and medical issues. So far, it hasn't been 100%…
If an AI video defames someone, who should the victim actually sue, the person who prompted it, the model provider, or the platform that kept it up?
This feels like a question we're going to have to take seriously pretty soon. We've already seen cases where AI generated…
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Multi-Token Prediction Done Right [R]
Sharing one of our latest papers on Multi-Token Prediction (MTP). MTP is now a standard recipe for frontier pre-training but…
‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage
Writer and readers share what they're feeling and doing in the aftermath of the AO3 outage. It's anything but Wattpad.
Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports
Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough A sell-off…
Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it…
Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft
A tampered Claude Code extension was live on the Cursor marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting up to 5,000 users. It tried to…
Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing
A newly released database of more than 25,000 anonymized calls from the Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line opens a rare…
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