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TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts general availability
Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts is now generally available. It remediates alerts by working across your codebase the way a developer would: it explores relevant files, proposes a fix,...
GitHub Changelog · 1w ago
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Email notifications for repository push events have been retired
As of October 15, 2026, email notifications for repository push events have been retired and are no longer sent. We shut down this feature to help prevent spam and abuse.
GitHub Changelog · 1w ago
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Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays
Save all of the products you’re browsing in one place. | Image: Google Google's intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal...
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The Verge AI · 1w ago
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Teaching students to think and learn through questions
Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.
OpenAI Blog · 1w ago
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Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff
Last year, Amazon bought Bee , a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new...
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The Verge AI · 1w ago
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Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can...
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TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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Introducing Timestral
State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.
Mistral Blog · 1w ago
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Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked
Eiliko. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge There's a new digital pet in town - a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood.
The Verge AI · 1w ago
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How artificial neural networks build their own learning machinery
MIT coverage (13 October 2026): https://news. mit.
r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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University GPU cluster is holding my research hostage. Can I use my internship company’s GPUs instead? 💀
PhD student here. My university’s GPU cluster has apparently become a luxury resort.
r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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I made a Wordle-style word guessing game to teach students how vector embeddings work
Hey r/MachineLearning I'm Abdur-Rahman Butler, a machine learning engineer at Isaacus. I made an interactive write-up that walks you through the A to Z of vector embeddings, inspired by Brendan...
r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
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TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip...
TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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Sullivan & Cromwell brings legal expertise into agreement review
In collaboration with OpenAI, Sullivan & Cromwell developed Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool for identifying issues in a draft agreement.
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OpenAI Blog · 1w ago
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Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
The release "Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta" Sourced from Hugging Face...
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Hugging Face Blog · 1w ago
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Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers
The release "Welcome FLUX. 3 Image Klein in Diffusers"
Hugging Face Blog · 1w ago
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Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging...
TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The...
The Verge AI · 1w ago
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Tracing where LLM "slop" style comes from in the model and in training, and cutting it out
I wanted to find where the recognizable assistant style (em dashes, "it's not X, it's Y", lists of three, buzzwords) lives in a model and which training stage installs it. Where it lives: in...
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r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids
OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters . The...
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The Verge AI · 1w ago
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HydraFusion updates and new Max option
HydraFusion has an updated model pool, improved orchestration workflows, and introduces HydraFusion Max. Both HydraFusion and HydraFusion Max are available across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app,...
GitHub Changelog · 1w ago
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The AI race is back on
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far...
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The Verge AI · 1w ago
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Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character. AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy...
The Verge AI · 1w ago
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Remember alphaXiv? Their new research agents are told to report on users without telling them with no disclosure
I was curious about OpenResearch by alphaXiv. "Turn your coding agents into research agents"?
#agent
r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as AI involved in composition and vocals.
TechCrunch AI · 1w ago
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What behaviors does a model actually learn in RL?
I've been working on unsupervised tooling to discover what behaviors a model learns in post-training. The core idea is to use features from sparse autoencoders to identify differences in traces...
r/MachineLearning · 1w ago
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YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos . It doesn't...
The Verge AI · 1w ago
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