A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Study shows a 10-year-old CNN architecture outperforms current frontier LLMs in skin cancer diagnostic tasks.
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PyTorch Conference 2026: Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU for Native PyTorch on TPUs
Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs.
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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Study shows a 10-year-old CNN architecture outperforms current frontier LLMs in skin cancer diagnostic tasks.
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Google ML Drift Accelerates On-Device AI Inference Across Diverse GPUs
Google released ML Drift, an open-source cross-platform GPU compute engine for on-device inference.
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Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Cerebras details their technical approach to deploying trillion-parameter models on their hardware.
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I'm on Team Explanation
Opinion piece on the importance of interpretability and explanation in AI systems.
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AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
Economic report suggesting limited financial ROI from AI adoption for non-tech corporations.
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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Analysis of global data center opposition and potential lessons for US infrastructure development.
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Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5
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OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has slowed
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now thinks self-impr
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Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture comparison, the single-agent setup ran about twic
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Tested FLUX 3 Klein Locally: Has AI Image Generation Plateaued?
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't b
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OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Smartphone agents don't get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind OpenMobile-2 built an open training environment with
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Enterprise AI Pricing: Why Everything You Know Is Wrong
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Dessa by Jack Dorsey's Block
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Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inbox
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Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings
Podcast episode discussing Kimi K3.1 Pro and general AI industry trends.
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Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage t
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Models Are the How, Harnesses Are the What
A person hands their preferences, context, goals and how they like things done to a harness labeled the what, which feeds a model labeled the how, which produces a result that returns to the person; both harness and model point up at a hilltop flag labeled what you want/images/models-how-harnesses-w...
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AI agents = messy roommates
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NVIDIA'S Small Model: Nemotron-3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB Locally
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Google Optimizes Agent Development Kit's 200K-line Python Codebase Overnight with Gemini 4 Argon
Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by abo
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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing confiden
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AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain t
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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
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Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarca
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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
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OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, A
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Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's
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Black October Isn't Just A PHP Bug. Attackers Want Your AI Keys.
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