Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand   —  Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.

Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (Artificial Analysis)

Artificial Analysis : Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)   —  Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having …

EmbeddingGemma 2

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980487#49983751">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980487">EmbeddingGemma 2</a> &mdash; Hacker News.</p><p>I really appreciate that <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/">EmbeddingGemma 2</a> is under the Apache 2.0 license.</p> <p>For embedding models in partic

EmbeddingGemma 2

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980487#49983751">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980487">EmbeddingGemma 2</a> &mdash; Hacker News.</p><p>I really appreciate that <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/">EmbeddingGemma 2</a> is under the Apache 2.0 license.</p> <p>For embedding models in partic

How AI decision models could change content moderation

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

How AI decision models could change content moderation

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices.

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices.

Capitolis, which develops tech for banks and financial institutions, raised $220M, including a $120M Series E at a $1.9B valuation, up from $1.6B in March 2022 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Capitolis, which develops tech for banks and financial institutions, raised $220M, including a $120M Series E at a $1.9B valuation, up from $1.6B in March 2022 &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Citi, Bank of America, Nomura, Tradeweb, J.P. Morgan, UBS and other major financial institutions are backing the fintech &hellip;

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

<p><strong><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/">Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk</a></strong></p> Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs.</p> <p>The preview is available via their API. They promise to release the

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

<p><strong><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/">Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk</a></strong></p> Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs.</p> <p>The preview is available via their API. They promise to release the

Anthropic says it found 5,500 verified vulnerabilities in April-October and Glasswing partners found 129K+ in April-July; 33K+ were critical or high severity (Reuters)

Reuters : Anthropic says it found 5,500 verified vulnerabilities in April-October and Glasswing partners found 129K+ in April-July; 33K+ were critical or high severity &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic is expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its most powerful AI models with fewer safeguards &hellip;

AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.

It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.

Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a small open model like Gemma 4, it can run offline RAG apps without sending data to external servers. The article Google

Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a small open model like Gemma 4, it can run offline RAG apps without sending data to external servers. The article Google

Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from $3B+ to $5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from $3B+ to $5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise to $5 billion, tapping lenders to help fuel the robotaxi company's growth as it expands globally.

Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, a 1T model it claims tops any open model developed in the US or Europe; weights are due October 27 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, a 1T model it claims tops any open model developed in the US or Europe; weights are due October 27 &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named &ldquo;Le Chonk&rdquo; &hellip;

Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models (Anthropic)

Anthropic : Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; We're launching a new, expanded version of our Cyber Verification Program (CVP), which makes advanced cyber capabilities &hellip;

Tech Life

What is a supercomputer for? How does it work? And who gets to use it? We explain all.

Tech Life

What is a supercomputer for? How does it work? And who gets to use it? We explain all.

Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money

Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money

Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money appeared first on The Decoder .

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.

Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw

Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can retrieve with metadata filters.

Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw

Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can retrieve with metadata filters.

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/datasette-parseable-opentelemetry">Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces</a></p> <p>I <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978171">saw Parseable in a Show HN</a> today - it's a new observability platform with both an <a href="https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable">open source (AGPL)</a> Rust i

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/datasette-parseable-opentelemetry">Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces</a></p> <p>I <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978171">saw Parseable in a Show HN</a> today - it's a new observability platform with both an <a href="https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable">open source (AGPL)</a> Rust i

Mistral says it trained ML4 "from scratch" using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual (Mistral Blog)

Mistral Blog : Mistral says it trained ML4 &ldquo;from scratch&rdquo; using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual &nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Le Chonk&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4.&nbsp; Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.

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‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors. The article Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI age

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors. The article Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI age

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Mistral Large 4

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49982139">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979">Mistral Large 4</a> &mdash; Hacker News.</p><blockquote> <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658">wren6991</a>: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.</p> </bl

Mistral Large 4

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49982139">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979">Mistral Large 4</a> &mdash; Hacker News.</p><blockquote> <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658">wren6991</a>: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.</p> </bl