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AI DISRUPTOR DEEPSEEK'S NEXT-GEN MODEL DELAYED BY NVIDIA GPU EXPORT RESTRICTIONS TO CHINA

DeepSeek's AI software is reportedly optimized for Nvidia's hardware, which makes the company particularly vulnerable to US policy decisions.

LEARNINGS FROM BUILDING AI AGENTS

This post looks at how the team at cubic reduced false positives in their AI code review agent by 51% without sacrificing recall.

AI IS DOING UP TO 50% OF THE WORK AT SALESFORCE, CEO MARC BENIOFF SAYS

Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workload - the technology currently accounts for about 30% to 50% of the company's work.

WINDOWS IS GETTING RID OF THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AFTER 40 YEARS

Microsoft plans to overhaul its BSOD error message in Windows 11 in favor of a simplified black screen known as the Black Screen of Death.

FRENCH SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW BLOOD TYPE IN GUADELOUPE WOMAN

The new blood type, dubbed 'Gwada negative', is the 48th blood group system officially recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion.

TIKTOK AND META WANT A PIECE OF YOUTUBE'S TV SUCCESS

ByteDance and Meta are planning to introduce TV apps of their own to chase YouTube's success.

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ANTHROPIC NOW LETS YOU MAKE APPS RIGHT FROM ITS CLAUDE AI CHATBOT

Anthropic has added a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets users build AI-powered apps right inside the app. It builds on Anthropic's Artifacts feature, which lets users see and interact with what they ask Claude to make. The feature has been used to build things like AI-powered games, learning tools, data analysis apps, writing assistants, and agent workflows. A video demo showing how the feature works is available in the article.

SPANISH MATHEMATICIAN JAVIER GÓMEZ SERRANO AND GOOGLE DEEPMIND TEAM UP TO SOLVE THE NAVIER-STOKES MILLION-DOLLAR PROBLEM

The Navier-Stokes equations are one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems - the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute has offered $1 million for the solution. Google DeepMind and mathematician Javier Gómez Serrano claim the problem will be solved soon with the help of AI. The challenge dates back to the 19th century. Several great mathematical minds have devoted the best years of their academic lives to solving the problem only to find themselves stuck in a dead end.

SPACEX LAUNCHES 4 PEOPLE INTO ORBIT ON AXIOM SPACE AX-4 MISSION

SpaceX launched a private space crew of four people on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday. The mission was brokered by commercial space company Axiom Space. The Ax-4 mission will catch up with and dock to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Dragon capsule on Thursday morning. The crew will be conducting research that spans biology, material, and physical sciences, as well as technology demonstrations during their 14-day stay. They will engage with students around the world to share their experiences. The Dragon capsule will remain docked at the station during the mission.

ALPHAGENOME: AI FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE GENOME

AlphaGenome is a new unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function. It is now available via API for non-commercial research. The tool can predict how single variants or mutations in human DNA sequences impact a wide range of biological processes regulating genes. It can help scientists better understand genome function and disease biology and drive new biological discoveries and the development of new treatments.

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CONTAINERS ARE AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC BETA FOR SIMPLE, GLOBAL, AND PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTE

Cloudflare Containers are now available in beta for all users on paid plans. The feature enables developers to run new kinds of applications alongside Workers, opening up a world of possibilities. Containers are tightly integrated with Workers and the rest of the developer platform. This article provides a tour of Containers for developers to get started.

GEMINI CLI

Gemini CLI is a command-line AI workflow tool that connects users to tools. It understands code and was designed to accelerate workflows. Gemini CLI can query and edit large code bases, generate new apps from PDFs or sketches, automate operational tasks, use tools and MCP servers to connect new capabilities, and more.

BEGUN, THE AI BROWSER WARS HAVE

The Browser Company's new Dia browser shows an obvious glimpse of what's to come in the world of web browsers. It is a lot simpler than Arc, but the AI trade-offs make it worth the switch. Established players like Chrome have billions of users, making it difficult for them to fundamentally change their browsers overnight. With Dia, The Browser Company has a clean slate to do as it wishes - and it appears to be a good product right now.

RACK-SCALE NETWORKS ARE THE NEW HOTNESS FOR MASSIVE AI TRAINING AND INFERENCE WORKLOADS

Rack-scale architectures use interconnect technologies to offer several orders of magnitude higher bandwidth per accelerator. The bandwidth means that GPU compute and memory can be pooled, even when physically distributed across multiple distinct servers. The transition to rack-scale architectures is being driven by the demands of model builders. They are primarily aimed at hyperscale cloud providers, neo-cloud operators, and large enterprises that need to keep their AI workloads on-prem.

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MURATI'S STARTUP BETS ON ‘RL FOR BUSINESS' AFTER RAISING $2 BN

Mira Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, will focus on creating custom AI solutions designed to help businesses increase revenue.

MONARCH

Monarch is a distributed execution engine for PyTorch that aims to deliver a high-quality user experience at cluster scale.

AARON SORKIN'S THE SOCIAL NETWORK SEQUEL OFFICIALLY IN DEVELOPMENT

Aaron Sorkin is working on a sequel to The Social Network that will be based on the Wall Street Journal series, The Facebook Files, which covers subjects like the company's influence on the January 6 riot and the mental health of teenage users.

PNG IS BACK!

A new PNG spec was just released - it includes proper HDR support, animated PNGs, and official support for Exif data.

AI CODING AGENTS ARE ALREADY COMMODITIZED

AI coding agents have no secret sauce.

IROH

iroh is a library for building on direct connections between devices that puts more control in the hands of users.

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AT AMAZON'S BIGGEST DATA CENTER, EVERYTHING IS SUPERSIZED FOR AI

Amazon's Project Rainier involves building data centers so large they would have been considered absurd just a few years ago. The tech industry requires massive networks of specialized computer chips for its increasingly powerful AI technologies. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana. The entire complex, which will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity, will form one giant machine intended just for artificial intelligence. Project Rainier will also include facilities in Mississippi and possibly other locations like North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

OPENAI DESIGNS RIVAL TO OFFICE AND WORKSPACE, THE INFORMATION REPORTS

OpenAI is developing productivity features for ChatGPT. It is working on collaborative document editing and integrated chat capabilities. The planned features will resemble functions offered by Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace. No official product announcements or timelines have been made public.

GOOGLE'S NEW ROBOTICS AI CAN RUN WITHOUT THE CLOUD AND STILL TIE YOUR SHOES

Google DeepMind has revealed a new on-device vision language action (VLA) model that can control robots. It doesn't have a cloud component, so robots using the model can operate with full autonomy. This is the first version of Google's robotics model that developers can tune for their specific uses. Robotics researchers can adapt the VLA to new tasks with as little as 50 to 100 demonstrations.

WORLD'S LARGEST CAMERA SHOWS GALAXY IN 3,200 MEGAPIXEL GLORY AS RUBIN TELESCOPE GOES ONLINE

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is finally online and photographing the galaxy. It found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation. The telescope will allow scientists to explore the cosmos in new ways at a scale that will enable discoveries that should fundamentally change our understanding of the universe. The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, an 8,799-foot-high mountain in the Chilean Andes.

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THE ROAD TO TOP 1: HOW XBOW DID IT

An autonomous penetration tester has reached the top spot on HackerOne for the first time in bug bounty history. XBOW is a fully autonomous AI-driven penetration tester that operates much like a human pentester but can scale rapidly, completing comprehensive penetration tests in just a few hours. It has reported thousands of vulnerabilities validated and confirmed by program owners. XBOW can identify a full spectrum of vulnerabilities, including Remote Code Execution, SQL Injection, XML External Entities, Path Traversal, Server-Side Request Forgery, and Cross-Site Scripting.

FALSEHOODS PROGRAMMERS BELIEVE ABOUT TIME

Developers who think they understand everything about time are probably doing something wrong. This post presents a list of falsehoods that programmers tend to believe about working with time. Don't try to re-invent a date-time library.

CHATGPT WOWS OFFICE WORKERS. THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR MICROSOFT

Drug maker Amgen Inc. last spring announced plans to buy Microsoft's Copilot assistant for 20,000 employees, but 13 months later, Amgen employees are using OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company expanded its ChatGPT use earlier this year after hearing from employees that it helped with tasks such as research and summarizing scientific documents. Its push into the enterprise market is complicating its already fraught relationship with Microsoft. OpenAI claims it has 3 million paying business users.

ANTHROPIC WINS A MAJOR FAIR USE VICTORY FOR AI — BUT IT'S STILL IN TROUBLE FOR STEALING BOOKS

Anthropic used both downloaded ebooks and purchased and scanned print books to create the data it used to train its models. A judge found that the scanned books fell under fair use as they were transformative versions of the works and were not shared outside of the company. The downloaded ebooks did not count as fair use - these will be the subject of a forthcoming jury trial. The judge found that training a large language model on unlicensed data counted as 'fair use'.

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IPHONE USERS UPSET ABOUT APPLE PROMOTING F1 MOVIE WITH WALLET APP NOTIFICATION

Apple recently sent out an ad to some iPhone users as a Wallet app push notification, seemingly ignoring its own App Store guidelines.

SUBSECOND: HOT-PATCHING FOR RUST

Subsecond is a library that enables hot-patching for Rust applications, which allows developers to change the code of a running application without restarting it.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT GPUS

This article discusses how GPUs work, covering topics like compute and memory hierarchy, performance regimes, strategies for increasing performance, and more.

MICROSOFT PLANNING ‘MAJOR' XBOX LAYOFFS NEXT WEEK

Microsoft plans to restructure parts of its Xbox business as it looks to its next generation of consoles.

THE RÉSUMÉ IS DYING, AND AI IS HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN

The traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise.

SOME IDEAS FOR WHAT COMES NEXT

Scaling as a product differentiator died in 2024, so model developers need to innovate in other ways to progress.

ZUCKERBERG LEADS AI RECRUITMENT BLITZ ARMED WITH $100 MILLION PAY PACKAGES

Mark Zuckerberg has personally reached out to hundreds of researchers, scientists, infrastructure engineers, product stars, and entrepreneurs to try to get them to join a new Superintelligence lab. He is offering them hundreds of millions of dollars and in at least one case discussed buying a startup outright. Despite the financial incentives, some potential candidates have been hesitant to join Meta. It is unclear how successful Zuckerberg's efforts will ultimately be - OpenAI has given counteroffers to people Meta has tried to poach.

COURT FILINGS REVEAL OPENAI AND IO'S EARLY WORK ON AN AI DEVICE

Legal filings submitted as part of a trademark dispute reveal details about OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The companies have been vigorously researching in-ear hardware devices. However, io's chief hardware officer said in court that the prototype OpenAI CEO Sam Altman missioned in io's launch video was not an in-ear device nor a wearable device. The design of the prototype has not yet been finalized and the product is at least a year away from being advertised or offered for sale.

NEW YORK TO BUILD ONE OF FIRST U.S. NUCLEAR-POWER PLANTS IN GENERATION

New York plans to build a large nuclear power facility to add at least 1 gigawatt of energy, enough to power about a million homes. The New York Power Authority will find a site in upstate New York and determine the reactor's design. It may pursue the project alone or in partnership with private entities. The US nuclear industry has struggled for more than three decades to do much more than manage existing plants because of safety concerns, huge cost overruns, and a permitting process that moves at a glacial pace. This project could help jump-start a new era of US nuclear reactor construction.