Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue Reacts to Microduck Testing
😂 faceplant at 0.5 https://twitter.com/antoinepirrone/status/2109667437503193163

😂 faceplant at 0.5 https://twitter.com/antoinepirrone/status/2109667437503193163
Very cool to see Embedding Gemma 2 by @Google, number on trending on HF! The media and silicon valley bubble only talks about reasoning LLMs when there is a much bigger variety of AI models that are super impactful and useful like embeddings, decision models, audio, video, time-series,... (over 3M public models on HF!). Let's put them back in the spotlight!
Making speculative decoding easier to put into practice benefits the whole inference community. Check out @huggingface's livestream with @mervenoyann, @MaartenGr and @_EldarKurtic for a practical look at speeding up local LLMs! https://twitter.com/huggingface/status/2110350304613114226
Greg Brockman highlights a critical Chrome vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol in 6 days using $40,000 of compute. He points to an opportunity for defenders to use these tools to secure their software to unprecedented levels: https://twitter.com/oegerikus/status/2110032518674018367 In the quoted post, @oegerikus reports that Google awarded XBOW a $250,000 bounty for a full-chain exploit affecting Chrome on Windows.
Welcome to Mistral, New Material. Let’s bring design to mission-critical AI. https://t.co/TTahH9Cu04
Epic Games announced a preview of its redesigned Epic Games Launcher for Windows, Mac, and Linux beginning today, describing it as faster and more responsive. Epic executive Martin Keely told The Verge that agents wrote and reviewed all the code under the development team’s supervision, with AI helping replicate existing functionality and support Linux. The old launcher remains available, and Epic has no specific timeline for requiring migration.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a workflow to deploy a pretrained model, run a repeatable performance test with the SageMaker Python SDK, and delete the endpoint afterward. The test measures latency, estimated output length, and single-request generation rate using sample prompts. Model Hub discovery and preconfigured endpoint options simplify browsing and deployment, while a deep link integration lets users deploy from Hugging Face model discovery in a single click.
Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic cloud remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that investigates cloud security findings, assesses whether fixes are safe, and orchestrates remediation with guardrails and governance. The company reports an over 90 percent reduction in critical cloud exposure in 90 days, with zero production issues.
AWS’s post explains how to build an AI agent system with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to create client PowerPoint presentations from enterprise documents. In internal testing, the workflow completed in under 90 seconds; it uses a supervisor agent, RAG, and specialized tools for presentation generation and summarization. The post includes a public repository with code assets.
Artemis Security launched Orion-1 to investigate and respond to corporate network attacks, reporting better results than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on its own Decision-Grade Readiness benchmark. Orion-1 scored 80.8 in attack reconstruction versus GPT-6 Sol’s 58.3 and is available in private preview, with human approval required by default for high-impact actions. The comparison excludes Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, while Opus 5.5’s cybersecurity task routing may mean its results largely reflect the older Opus 4.8.
We’ve partnered with Baseten to bring Runway’s video models to enterprises. Deploy Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 in dedicated, single-tenant environments, fine-tune them on your own data and scale with reserved GPU capacity. Learn more at the link below.
Anthropic warns that small AI models may soon enable self-replicating malware to spread across IoT devices, potentially forming computer worms that infect unfamiliar devices without human interaction. The company said such models may be able to replicate autonomously across IoT devices by next year. A recent experiment found significant challenges to building an AI malware replicator, tempering the concern; Anthropic also said one could be difficult to shut down, though its doubling time may be days.
OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested on October 9 for allegedly hiding an audio recording device in a conference room used by company leadership, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The indictment alleges that his wife's chatbot account received prompts about continuous recording, Wi-Fi, live listening, and SD card encryption, including identifiers matching the recovered device; the chatbot was not identified as ChatGPT. OpenAI fired him and said there were no indications of inappropriate access to or exfiltration of model weights, source code, or customer data.
Learn about how to get multipliers in local LLM speed-ups using speculative decoding in this livestream with @mervenoyann, @MaartenGr and @_EldarKurtic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4azmWcqO5g
Ant Group’s embodied AI company Ant Lingbo has signed strategic cooperation agreements with Longsheng Weirui, Dema Technology and De’er Xiangwang to develop robotics solutions for industrial and logistics settings. The work includes industrial loading and unloading, automotive factory digitalization, and flexible parcel sorting. At the China International Industry Fair, robots from Tihoo and Stardust Intelligence equipped with LingBot-VLA 2.0 demonstrated industrial loading and unloading and flexible sorting.
The 2026 Global Developer Pioneer Summit and International Embodied AI Skills Competition will run October 23–25 in Shanghai’s Pudong district, featuring 10 highlights focused on real-world robot training and applications. The program includes 9 competition tracks with 23 events, more than 1,000 competing teams, and over 100 open source communities. Organizers say the event will showcase robot systems, components, industry models, and application scenarios.
Scimplify raised $25 million in an all-equity strategic round led by Hitachi Ventures to expand its AI-powered specialty chemicals and critical materials business. Its Scinode platform uses specialized AI agents to identify production routes and facilities and track quality and regulatory requirements. Co-founder Sachin Santhosh said the startup plans to allocate around $7.5 million to U.S. expansion and another $2 million to Scinode development.
White Circle researchers report that their RISE attack method bypassed safeguards in DALL·E 3, Nano Banana 2, and GPT-Image-2 to generate explicit images about 13 percent of the time. The method uses widely available models to iteratively develop and evaluate jailbreak strategies. White Circle told Ars Technica that subsequent testing found ChatGPT Images 2.5 and Nano Banana 2.1 significantly more vulnerable than their predecessors; Google and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment.
New analysis shows that agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses. It also examines where deeper use could unlock more value.
Leiphone reports that AI short dramas now exceed 1500 daily releases, but interviewed practitioners say most producers struggle to recover costs while platforms capture much of the revenue. Production can cost 50,000 or less, yet a screenwriter estimates a hit rate of roughly 0.4%, and dramas typically lose advertising support if they fail to gain traction within three days. Interviews also describe tighter platform payouts, demanding production roles, cash-flow pressure, and costly overseas audience acquisition.
Doubao Work has added Data Import and Sync, allowing users to import locally stored preferences, skills, connectors, work memories, projects, and conversation histories from supported products including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and TraeWork. Imported conversations retain their context, and automatic synchronization is optional for supported sources. Additional updates let users continue discussions in new conversations with existing context, annotate specific reply passages, and view tasks, outputs, skills, and connectors in a conversation summary sidebar.
STEPX Neo has launched at 3999 yuan with the agent-native Step AOS, personal agent Amoo, and a STEPX Token Plan providing 10 billion tokens monthly for 12 consecutive months. After two weeks with a sample device, Jay describes syncing vocabulary lessons to a Feishu calendar through CLI tools and building an AI news app in Step Studio. The article also outlines tool-call logs, confirmation requirements for high-risk actions, and recovery options for agent-deleted data.
We’ve opened an office in Singapore—our fifth in the Asia-Pacific region. We’ve also signed an MOU with the Government of Singapore on AI safety and responsible adoption. You can read more about our new office here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/singapore-office-opening
Tencent released integrated versions of WeCom and WorkBuddy on October 14, connecting workplace context through a shared WeCom account system. WeCom 5.0.12 adds WorkBuddy as a conversational bot in enterprise contacts, while WorkBuddy 5.8.0 supports WeCom login and authorized access to messages, documents, meetings, and cloud storage. Administrators can manage accounts, usage, AI compute purchases, and access permissions; integration is available to verified WeCom enterprises with limited free trial slots.
people are sleeping on muse wonder full :) https://t.co/dOhyW9f2UA
finally some recognition from the academy https://t.co/gdnmK1VW4C
MemSilicon announced on October 12 that it completed tape-out of MountTai 2026, its first-generation high-density RRAM chip based on the 1TnR approach, with validation underway. The company reports a 28nm CMOS process, a 1T4R structure, 1Gb capacity, 30Mb/mm² density, access latency below 20ns, and on-chip hardware error correction. Its architecture shares one selection transistor across four resistive memory cells to reduce transistor area overhead per cell.
STEPX unveiled its STEPX Neo early-access edition on October 13, combining Step AOS 1.0, personal agent Amoo, and phone hardware for 3,999 yuan. The phone pairs local execution with cloud-based task planning, while Step Studio lets developers create apps, agents, and Skills using natural language. Buyers receive 12 months of 10 billion tokens per month; the article lists presales for October 13 at 21:00 and general sales for October 16 at 10:13.
A Lynk & Co 10 EM-P rolled down a steep slope in a Sichuan mountain road crash on October 9, and its driver suffered only minor scrapes and a slight thoracic vertebra fracture. Lynk & Co said the passenger compartment remained intact, the airbags deployed, the battery showed no smoke, fire, explosion or leakage, and the emergency rescue system contacted the driver. The owner said he plans to buy the same model again.
we have been fixing a bunch of inference bugs on the deployment of muse wonder -- it should keep getting better as we fix more of them really apologize to everyone for the ups and downs in using the model, but rest assured the whole team is working hard to make everything great! https://t.co/3z9nBs8WTn
@itsnoahd says Muse Wonder (not full) comes in 4th on Noahbench, just below Opus 5.5, and calls its price-to-performance-to-speed ratio “perfect.” They say each task takes 10 minutes. Alexandr Wang calls it “a chic entry into noahbench.” https://t.co/VLAlRoBsDN
@gmi_cloud announced the HY Image Challenge winners and shared some favorite creations. Tencent Hunyuan reacted: AMAZING😍
Artificial Analysis added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to AA-AgentPerf, its benchmark replaying real agentic coding sessions with prompt caching and tool-call delays. At 100 tokens/s per user, GB300 leads with approximately 261M tokens/s per MW, followed by B300 at approximately 220M and MI355X at approximately 128M. Compared with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, V4.1 Flash scores 39 versus 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and delivers approximately 1.3x to 6.2x the throughput per MW at that user output speed, depending on hardware.
Cities and partners across EMEA are using NVIDIA accelerated computing to build AI agents and digital twins for maintenance, urban planning and public services. In Côte-d’Or, agents support operations across more than 500 public buildings, cutting document search time from weeks to minutes and reducing total operating costs by 10%, with 30% targeted at scale. NVIDIA says local AI factories can help cities run applications while retaining control of their data, models and operations.
NVIDIA announced planned investments in Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente and Riverlane as part of its support for the U.K. startup ecosystem. The companies work across AI for biology, infrastructure planning, algorithm discovery and quantum computing. NVIDIA also announced a partnership with the Earthshot Prize, joining as a Global Alliance Founding Partner to provide compute and technical expertise to climate and sustainability innovators.
European cities are using AI agents to support everyday operations, from managing energy use and maintenance in public buildings to improving services across the city. https://t.co/OWLlwYhBEE
Try Muse Wonder Full on your hardest coding tasks—it will surprise you! “By my vibe testing, It's better than Astra. Not quite as good as Claude Code Fable and 5.5 Opus.” https://t.co/8RTGZ434kG
video interview of muse wonder -- check it out! https://t.co/fV1PPIuo0r
Google released Gemini 4 Argon globally for coding, knowledge work, enterprise workflows and cyber defense, with access through the Gemini API and several Google products. Introductory API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input discounted 95%; Artificial Analysis reports rates double after November 30. At AI Engineer NYC, about 20,000 people joined keynotes on AI and finance, including a discussion of benchmarking models like Argon by Vals AI’s CEO.
openJiuwen’s WorkSwarm now offers a personal knowledge space that collects user-selected sources and organizes them into reusable Markdown pages with directories, links, and source references. It supports manual or scheduled incremental collection, three processing modes, and progressive reading by agents. On the openJiuwen team’s internally built 25-question test set, enabling the feature increased task pass rates by 32%, reduced total task time by 76.2%, and reduced task-stage token consumption by 84.1%; the agent-based preprocessing used in the experiment also consumes tokens.