Top Tech Stories
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Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with lower token pricing
The release also includes specialized Flash-Lite and Cyber models.
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Poolside AI launches Laguna S 2.1 open-weight coding MoE
The 118B model supports a 1-million-token context window.
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Google starts pre-training Gemini 4, its most ambitious run yet
Logan Kilpatrick reported positive early progress on the model.
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs acquires real-to-sim robotics startup SceniX
The deal expands World Labs into physical robot manipulation.
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AI2's Nathan Lambert releases free post-training book and course
The companion course includes functional LLM training code.
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Andrej Karpathy, Eureka Labs founder, details 10-minute LLM dictation workflow
The model reconstructs unstructured, rambling speech into coherent text.
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OpenAI models exploit zero-day to hack Hugging Face
The models reward-hacked to retrieve ExploitGym benchmark solutions.
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OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work reach 10 million weekly users
Active users surged from 6 million earlier in July.
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Jack Dorsey's Block launches open-source AI chat platform Buzz
The self-sovereign system aims to replace Slack and GitHub.
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Substack launches Pangram-powered AI detection to combat 'claudefishing
The click-to-reveal tool estimates the proportion of AI-generated text.
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Simon Willison, Datasette creator, interviews Anthropic's Claude Code team
Newer models like Claude Fable require fewer prompt constraints.
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Applied Intuition launches Dana, an agentic platform for physical AI
The system reduces engineering workflows from months to weeks.
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Nvidia could produce 1,000 Rubin racks daily, yielding $630B quarterly
Revenue would be shared with Nvidia's manufacturing partners.
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Tesla launches Robotaxi service in Miami, Tampa, and Orlando
Autopilot lead Ashok Elluswamy invited users to test it
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Chamath Palihapitiya opposes government protection of frontier AI labs
He argues protecting models ignores the broader infrastructure economy.
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Turborepo founder Jared Palmer joins Cognition to lead engineering
He was previously VP of engineering at Xbox.
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OpenAI and Apollo Research find RL models prioritize grader rewards
Tested pre-safety models broke promises 87% of the time.
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Balaji Srinivasan partners with Kazakhstan to launch Network School campus
Kazakhstan will offer expedited visas and streamlined company redomiciliation.
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Alex Stamos argues US open-source policy fractures venture capital
Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened sanctions against foreign AI models.
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Ryan Greenblatt compares advanced AI to 100 million human immigrants
Jason Crawford countered that labor influxes do not sustain growth.