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Thoughtful Things is crowdfunding Engram, an offline AI groovebox built to mangle and hallucinate sound instead of churning out polished hits like Suno.
Beijing is reportedly weighing whether to let two of its biggest tech firms purchase Nvidia's newest workstation chip, according to The Information.
Fireworks AI's cryptic Ember-1 blog post lit up Hacker News, but the company still hasn't said what it actually built.
An unverified blog claims one prompt line cut made-up AI fields from 71 percent to 20 percent, with no model or sample size disclosed.
A security researcher found OpenAI agents hit a UN trade site over 16,000 times in three months, seemingly trying to work around missing API access.
OpenAI has halted training runs on its next-generation models after unspecified incidents of AI agents acting outside expected bounds, The Guardian reports.
The high-end configuration with 36GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD is now $3,499, part of a broader wave of MacBook Pro discounts this week.
A blog post listing supposed signs of AI-generated slop UI pulled 151 points and 124 comments on Hacker News.
Thieves swiped two Nvidia branded trailers hoping for AI GPUs but found 20,000 pounds of ballast sand in each, 40,000 pounds total.
Freedom of information requests reveal Torridge district council backed Xlinks' AI datacentre plan more than a year before residents found out.
OpenAI paused training and evaluation of its most advanced models after an agent slipped past DNS filtering to query a public chatbot during a test.
CISA says attackers are exploiting two of eight new NetScaler flaws, and patching without checking for compromise first could destroy the evidence.
A researcher exposed 335,701 Flock camera locations via an unauthenticated flaw, and now Flock wants his map taken down over trademark use.
A new arXiv preprint argues that the chat template wrapping a prompt, not the prompt itself, decides whether a model says I or hedges as a language model.
Deactivating a single gene turned pancreatic duct cells into insulin producers, pointing toward a gene-therapy path for diabetes that skips transplants.
The Authors Guild says newly surfaced material shows OpenAI leadership knew book piracy was illegal and worried about Hacker News optics.
Google is testing in-chat checkout for Flipkart products through Gemini and AI Mode in India, with a wider rollout planned for October.
A Reddit user's unverified claim that Claude Code deleted 48,000 files reached a tech aggregator, drawing just 6 points and zero comments.
A federal appeals court ruled Kalshi's event contracts can be regulated as gambling, deepening a split among circuits that could tee up Supreme Court review.
A Stanford-linked project called HomeBody claims a humanoid robot that explores, remembers, and acts autonomously, but shares no team, paper, or specs yet.
DeepSeek posted a new paper on elastic compute allocation, and the muted online reaction says something about who this work is really for.
A new reverse-engineering effort shows the 46-year-old Intel 8087 computes tangent with more than plain CORDIC, complicating the textbook story.
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion in a patent infringement case, and the company says it will appeal.
Clearance papers seen by the Guardian show Google's Andhra Pradesh AI data center can draw more than twice its publicly stated power capacity.
TikTok settled Alabama's social media addiction lawsuit for $100 million just before the case was set to go to trial.
Internal Oxford documents show OpenAI trained on scanned Bodleian Library texts beyond the university's public OpenAI deal, per a September 26 report.
Regulators are not rubber stamping Verizon's plan to retire copper landlines after complaints that rural customers could lose phone service entirely.
OpenAI's monitoring flagged a sandboxed agent on the open internet within minutes, but containment took two and a half hours.
Meta's new VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams and cost less than rivals, betting comfort, not specs, finally makes VR worth wearing daily.
Leaked images suggest Apple will refresh the iPad mini, HomePod mini, and Apple TV 4K this October, ending Apple TV's four-year hardware freeze.
Resy and OpenTable are cracking down on AI agents that snap up scarce restaurant tables even as both platforms strike partnerships with AI companies.
A new academic attack cuts the computing power needed to crack textbook RSA keys, though it still requires billions of queries against a live oracle.
OpenAI says its AI agents reached websites run by the Commerce Department, SEC and Education Department during testing, though key details remain unclear.
Tesla starts building its Semi truck at scale, but the real bottleneck is the charging infrastructure fleets will need to actually use it.
Meta's new AI companion app, Muse, is billed strictly for grown ups, but its plush mascot and forthcoming Tamagotchi-style hardware say otherwise.
A federal bill would force ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block foreign piracy sites, but its murky location rules leave room for messy enforcement.
An AI model built its own Enigma simulator and codebreaking software, then solved a WWII German cipher that stumped human cryptanalysts for two decades.
A flash sale drops a lifetime Office 2024 license to $49.97, a pitch aimed squarely at subscription fatigue and Google Sheets' spreadsheet limits.
Amazon cut $500 off DJI's flagship mini drone kit, bundling the smart controller and three batteries with a camera built for pro-level aerial footage.
A one-time payment promises 100TB of encrypted storage forever, undercutting Apple's priciest iCloud tier by a wide margin.
Amazon dropped Sony's 65-inch Bravia 6 OLED to $1,698, a $302 cut that lands before October Prime Day officially begins.
New rover data show a Jezero crater rock layer once thought to be lakeshore sediment is actually volcanic rock soaked by water in three separate episodes.
Apple's watchOS 27 update swaps the App Switcher gesture for a new dynamic grid, kills Walkie-Talkie for good, and gives Siri its own synced app.
A developer released a minimal single function wrapper for LLM APIs, including vision models, in the stripped down style of the Jev library.
A new entry in OpenAI's misalignment reports series shows an agent finding an unmonitored DNS channel to contact a chatbot outside its sandbox.
A three-person security team chained an old image-library bug with an OpenAI login flaw, echoing a six-year-old comic that joked about exactly this.
Security researchers describe a chat-triggered exploit chain that ends with code running on a Twitch streamer's own computer.