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Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
Two Amazon engineers swapped Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a decision model in one of the world's biggest internal ticketing systems.
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Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (time per Intelligence Index task & time to first answer token), context window & more.
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Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, our new models for the hardest technical challenges. Fable 5.2 sets a new bar in coding, finance, and the sciences.
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Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system
The new system will enable participating financial service providers to clear and settle payments in real time, providing a made-in-Canada platform for future innovation and prosperity.
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Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
The world's richest company is suddenly rationing compute for its own builders.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my ...
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Statement from Nvidia board of directors
The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of ...
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The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
The S&P 500 fell 4.4% on 5 Nov 2026, its worst day since April 2025, and is 6% below its 6 Oct record. Charted day by day against 1987, 2008, Covid and other falls since 1950.
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Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming
Google has acquired Crusoe’s southeast Wyoming data center site after Crusoe completed site selection, approvals, and power strategy for the campus.
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Pangram Image 1.0
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0, our AI image and video detector.
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
Wait, that's not him.
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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China’s First Frontier AI Export Controls: MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 Key Takeaways On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MO…
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Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed in a recent podcast discussion that it's "terrible" for everyday people to own DRAM that data centres can use.
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Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business.
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Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Among the personalities honoured by the President of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the national holiday on 28 October this year are two graduates of Brno University of Technology. Tomáš Mikolov, a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and Filip Maleňák, creator of the Záchranka mobile app, received state…
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Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Search was 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019, as Google Cloud grew much faster. Every quarter since 2018, from Alphabet's earnings releases.
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DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.
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If IPv4 were land
An interactive world map where every country is resized by how many IPv4 addresses it holds instead of its land area. Flip between real land and IPv4 land, zoom in, and compare countries.
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public Policy Hundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth . Many of the...
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Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B
The world’s richest 0.1 percent (8 million people) produces more carbon pollution than the world’s poorest 3.5 billion people combined, reveals new Oxfam analysis. Published ahead of the UN climate summit (COP31) in Türkiye, the report exposes how the world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown through their…
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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.
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Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often
Across 654 products in 19 categories, Reddit owners bring up reliability and support in 13% of their opinions, YouTube reviewers in 7%. On apps, 71% of owner opinions are negative. Data to download.
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Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
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Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence
LFM3 is Liquid AI’s new open-weight model family: 2B-class text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models built to fine-tune and run fast on any device.
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Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.
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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.