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Carbon-X is an open 14.8B model trained jointly on DNA and text

Carbon-X is a 14. 8B parameter decoder-only model that takes raw DNA in a normal chat and answers in English.

r/MachineLearning · 5d ago

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Business

AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary

Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the...

#agent

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Funding

Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom

An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom.

#anthropic

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots

The Eiliko robot toy. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare .

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Model Launch

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

The release "Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models" marks an important milestone for the open-weights AI ecosystem. Sourced from Hugging Face Blog, this development showcases...

Hugging Face Blog · 5d ago

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Model Launch

Frontier models are bad at hearing ASMR: 8 judges vs human labels on 480 clips

I'm training text2asmr, a text-to-ASMR model (whispering plus trigger sounds like tapping, crinkling, brushing). The generator needs every training clip tagged with the sounds in it, and there...

r/MachineLearning · 5d ago

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Business

What FDE means at OpenAI

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI.

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OpenAI Blog · 5d ago

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Business

Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

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OpenAI Blog · 5d ago

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Business

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

TechCrunch AI · 5d ago

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Funding

Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

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TechCrunch AI · 5d ago

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Business

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. ...

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Business

Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push

Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday , the company says the non-voting stock will also go...

#meta

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Business

Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity

Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.

#meta

TechCrunch AI · 5d ago

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Business

Broad access through consistent standards

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

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OpenAI Blog · 5d ago

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Model Launch

An interactive map of all 9,110 NeurIPS 2026 papers, and what changed since 2025

I embedded the title and abstract of every NeurIPS 2026 paper (and every 2025 paper) with Qwen3-Embedding-0. 6B, grouped them into 150 topics and 20 areas, and put them on one map with DataMapPlot.

r/MachineLearning · 5d ago

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Business

Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

TechCrunch AI · 5d ago

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Model Launch

Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research...

#openai #anthropic #meta

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Business

While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls...

#amazon #agent

TechCrunch AI · 5d ago

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Business

Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to use an AI agent on the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review...

#agent

The Verge AI · 5d ago

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Model Launch

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required

The release "NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required" marks an important milestone for the open-weights AI ecosystem. Sourced from...

#nvidia

Hugging Face Blog · 5d ago

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Business

PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.

#openai #google

TechCrunch AI · 6d ago

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Business

Noun-verb-conjunction triads

The neural network would consist of multiple layers with at least one layer consisting of multiple attention heads. Each attention head would hold one triad consisting of one noun + one verb +...

r/MachineLearning · 6d ago

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Model Launch

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications

The release "How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications" marks an important milestone for the open-weights AI ecosystem. Sourced from Hugging Face...

#inference

Hugging Face Blog · 6d ago

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Funding

Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.

TechCrunch AI · 6d ago

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Business

How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

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OpenAI Blog · 6d ago

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Business

GitHub CLI: Opt in to expiring, auto-refreshing OAuth tokens

You can now use expiring, automatically refreshing OAuth credentials in GitHub CLI as part of a public preview. When you opt in, gh stores an expiring access token alongside a rotating refresh...

GitHub Changelog · 6d ago

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Business

Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.

Hugging Face Blog · 6d ago

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Model Launch

Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay

After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year , Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users. The conversational Gemini in navigation is available today for US drivers,...

#google #apple

The Verge AI · 6d ago

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