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Alexandr Wang, Meta’s AI wunderkind
The 29-year-old in charge of the company’s Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
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Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118688 Points: 115 # Comments: 54
PolicyFinancial Times
Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts
US lenders fear chatbots could shift billions of dollars in deposits to higher-yielding accounts
TechnologyTechCrunch
India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
EconomyTechCrunch
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs count
TechnologyTechCrunch
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs count
EconomyThe Guardian
AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
Tech platforms pillage public-interest journalism for profit. But we have leverage as they sow the seeds of their own downfall Carine Fouteau is president and publishing director of the French investigative news outlet Mediapart Big tech companies pose an immeasurable threat: soc
TechnologyThe Verge
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best
TechnologyWired
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.
TechnologyThe Verge
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outs
SocietyRest of World
Western open-weight models still can’t beat China
Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization and compute challenges, experts said at a Rest of World event in San Francisco.
SocietyFinancial Times
Business school teaching case study: Balancing AI capability and control in cyber defence
OpenAI agent’s escape from a test environment and its hack of Hugging Face are ringing alarm bells for businesses
TechnologyMIT News
Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
TechnologyWired
AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
A network of AI-generated models is using comics’ material to funnel views to their OnlyFans and Fanvue accounts—and there’s not much comedians can do about it.
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Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.