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California Sea Lion
California Sea Lion, in San Francisco County, US, CAWe took some visiting family to Pier 39 to see the sea lions. They're somehow always even fun than I remember them being last time. Tags: san-francisco, wildlife
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to...
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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.
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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
Meta's StoryKit app is only available in certain regions while the company tests how parents react to it.
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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
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AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to...
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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post...
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Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems
The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today in Fort Worth — a 324,000-square-foot greenfield plant producing superchips at the heart of some of the world’s most capable AI systems. In...
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This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.
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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features...
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide...
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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves. The full...
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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge: A 4B-Parameter Open World Model That Reasons and Generates Robot Actions On-Device
NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device. It helps robots and vision AI agents understand surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally. The Cosmos 3 family included Cosmos 3 Nano (16B) and Cosmos 3 Super (64B) shipped...
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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
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Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such...
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Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lowest Token Cost for Partners Worldwide
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it’s going gigascale. Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Spanning 350-plus factory sites in 30 countries, Vera Rubin has the largest, most mature rack-scale...
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Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026. The Flash tier gets cheaper and more token-efficient, with 3.6 Flash cutting output tokens 17% and dropping its output price to $7.50 per 1M. Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/sec, while gated Flash Cyber powers...
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Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis
In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert declarative YAML configurations into reproducible SLURM benchmark workflows for distributed LLM serving. We set up the project in Google Colab, inspect its internal architecture, define a cluster...
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Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
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LWiAI Podcast #252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040
GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, regulatory developments in AI and data centers, interpretability research from Anthropic, and the future of AI policy with AI 2040
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.
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Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution,...
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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.
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Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
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Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.
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Built for Vera Rubin, NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Arrives in Gigascale AI Factories
AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at unprecedented scale. At this level, networking becomes a critical computing power multiplier...
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Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac
Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio,...
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Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI
Meta has open-sourced Astryx, the React and StyleX design system it ran internally for eight years across 13,000+ apps. It ships 150+ accessible components, seven themes, dark mode, templates, and an agent-ready CLI under MIT — with React 19+ required. The post Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An...
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LWiAI Podcast #248 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
Exploring Claude Fable 5’s impact, Siri AI’s latest enhancements, and the competitive IPO landscape shaping AI’s future
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Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
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Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI...
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‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.
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Last Week in AI #251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat
Trump lifts restrictions on Anthropic, Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, Google's NotebookLM updates, chips stories from Etched and Baidu, and more!
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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races...
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Last Week in AI #250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Anthropic's AI treaty discussions, US government's influence on AI model releases, OpenAI's processor development, memory market impacts, and more!
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The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
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LWiAI Podcast #249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty
Exploring the Fable 5 ban, SpaceX’s strategic acquisition, and a burst of open source advancements
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Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.